On 27 January 2011 17:17, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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
Agreed. >> 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. I'd probably try and do this in a slightly different way. I'd use exiftool on each USB drive and also the NAS to force all images into a consistent folder structure. Then I'd use DoubleKiller to find images on the USB drives that are the same as on the NAS, and delete the USB versions. What's left on the USB drives are then the files to plug in holes in the NAS. (Actually I wouldn't delete dupes immediately from within DoubleKiller, I'd use it to move them into a temporary folder until I was sure where I was at.) > Or finding the files that are missing because I miss-renamed them ... the > "duplicate file name, different file" problem. DoubleKiller will find these; it doesn't care if you've miss-renamed them, it only compares CRC check-sums. Though there is a tick box if you want to force it to only check same-named files. > 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 think whichever way you end up doing this will be something of a long slog. Hmm, how about UnixUtils, Unix utilities for windows? It contains diff tools though I've never tried diff -r. http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ If I recall correctly you just uzip it and add the folder to your path. -- Eric -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
