On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 20:28:07 -0800, Walt wrote
(in article <47313ed7$0$20599$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a messy photographer that shoots RAW format most of the time. I
> unload my CM card into whatever computer is closest at that minute (PC,
> G4, iMac, G3), then use an app to convert from RAW to JPG or TIF as
> needed. I have these CM card directories all over the place that
> contain my RAW images, and I have other directories all over the place
> with post-process files in them.
>
> I got a new 24" iMac and a new 500GB disk to try and hold all of my
> images so I can cut DVD's as backup. So, if I try to move all of my
> image files to one drive I get 420GB of files - quite a few duplicates,
> and a ton of processed files (same name, different extension). I
> thought I would write an AppleScript to 1)move all image files to the
> target drive, 2)identify all duplicates, and 3) remove JPGs if I have a
> RAW file of the same name. Well, let's just say that I'm not having
> too much luck with AppleSript, so I can do it manually. I've produced
> lists of all of my image files (except from the images on the PC of
> course) manually in a terminal session with a recursive find command.
> But it will take months and months of work identifying the duplicates.
>
> So - what I was thinking - just copy all of the image files (PC and
> Mac) to the target directory and let the OS tell me when I have
> dupes..... but OS X puts duplicate files out there by adding a
> generation number to the file name..... I could do that and manually
> delete duplicate files, but that would take much time also.
>
> So, my question - is there a way to override the addition of
> generation numbers when copying duplicate files to a directory ?? A
> bit like the way Windows deos things - just copy all of the files I
> want into the same directory and let the OS disregard the files that
> are obvious dupes. It would make my life a whole lot easier if could
> find a way to do this on my iMac instead of moving ALL of my image
> files over to the PC to do this little bit of magic, then moving back
> to the iMac.
>
> Any suggestions, or ways to turn off the file generation additions in
> the Finder. I can't find anything in Apple discussions.
>
> Many thanks in advance, and I promise to get better organized with my
> hundreds of Gigabytes of stock and customer images.....
>
> Walt
>
iview media pro is reputed to do this. Their website offers a free trial
download.
http://www.iview-multimedia.com/downloads/index.php?p=a
StephenC
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