On 2007-11-07 10:38:09 -0600, Stephen C. <nobodyNOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
> 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
Stephen - I have iView Media Pro - I'll give it a try and let you
know..... Many thanks....
Walt
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