there are also tons of other tools such as antitwin and (commercial, hugely expensive an powerful) altova diffdog and araxis merge (hint hint) cheers ecke
2011/1/27 Eric Featherstone <[email protected]>: > 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. > -- 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.
