From: Eric Featherstone
On 27 January 2011 03:25, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
> I want a program to high-light the discrepancies and tell me:
>
> "This file is here on this drive, but it's there on that drive."
>
> OR
>
> "This file is here on this drive, but it's not on the other drive."
>
> OR
>
> "These two files have the same name, but they're not the same file."
>
> I'd like something graphical, sort of like the old Windows File Manager, but
> it shows the discrepancies in *BOLD* or highlighted.
Hmmm, sounds like you want /usr/bin/diff and use diff -r to compare
two folder (on two drives) recursively down the folder structure. That
will tell you pretty much what you've asked for above (but not
graphically.)
However you're running Windows. Do you fancy installing vmware player
+ ubuntu? Or cygwin, or Microsoft services for unix?
I'm trying to simplify my interaction with the computer so I can get
back to photography. ;-D
No, ok, then I'd use exiftool to move all the files on each of your
drives into the same folder structure pattern based on date. And then
use doublekiller to highlight (or remove) duplicates, it's a graphical
app. It checks whether files are the same by comparing the CRC
checksums for each file.
Exiftool
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
See here for an example - specifically you'd want the directory (not
file) renaming example
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/#filename
DoubleKiller
http://www.bigbangenterprises.de/en/doublekiller/
The caveat with the above is any moved jpeg, pef or dng files that are
managed within a Lightroom catalogue (if you that's what you use) will
end up with a ? icon in Lightroom.
Looks like two good programs to consider, although I've had difficulty
using Exiftool. Doesn't look like either of them will handle one of the
problems I'm looking to solve, i.e. finding the files on the USB drives
to plug in the holes on the NAS.
Or finding the files that are missing because I miss-renamed them ...
the "duplicate file name, different file" problem.
Looks like I'm just in for a long term slog manually comparing directory
listings, unless someone has written a windoze version of the "diff" tool.
I hate being such a pack-rat about it, but I've done it before where I
mistakenly deleted the images I wanted and kept the ones I didn't want
... and the only thing that saved me was my pack-rat backups.
If I ever manage to get a reasonably coherent collection in one place
where I can be reasonably sure I haven't left anything out, I can go
through them and separate the wheat from the chaff, making a record as I
go along to tell some future version of myself *why* I chose to delete
the images I chose.
That's the key to my future happiness, having written something down
that tells me I deleted the images on purpose and didn't just muck it up.
I'm not looking for perfect, just reasonable coherency.
Thanks.
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