On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 13:06:55 -0800, Walt wrote
(in article <473228ef$0$19735$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
> 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
>
Walt,
To elaborate, iView Media Pro is reputed to find and eliminate duplicate
files. It is *not* able to eliminate the Finder from creating dupes in the
first place. By reputed, I mean that I have not personally used it for
this.
StephenC
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