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On Aug 31, 2006, at 11:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear BBEdit Folks,
I'm trying to clean off a backup drive with around 250 GB of data
on it. I'd like to save just one copy of any unique file, and
hoping not to have to go through the whole thing using Get Info's.
(I think I'd prefer to lose the data to doing that.)
I do have Compare Folders and opened it for the first time tonight;
it didn't seem to help, to the extent that I stayed with it. (At
least for several seconds....) I expect Omni Disk Sweeper might
help when it comes to choosing which folders with the same names do
contain some differences, but I believe that _most_ folders will
fall into that category; I'm looking for something faster. (I've
used a backup program, ChronoSynch, that puts older versions into
archives. Mostly a good thing, until the cleaning time rolls
around. And I've created multiple sets and redone organizations,
and well, I need to get better organized, I think.)
How about GREP, I thought. But I don't know GREP at all.
Maybe someone there would be able to write a GREP expression for
what I'm looking for?
A. Search in: (Two hard drives, but they are partitioned. I don't
care about the second partition of the main drive but both of the
backup's drive partitioning matters.) The three items: 1. Howdy, 2.
Seagate Disk One, and 3. Seagate Disk Two. Howdy is the main
drive's main partition.
B. Look for: all files with the characteristics
C. Such that they:
1. Are not housed within the /System or /Library file.
2. Are not housed within any directory beginning with "..".
3. Are not named beginning with "..".
4. Are unique.
I don't know GREP, but it seems to me that the first three are
doable. I'm wondering about #4. But without #4, I can't imagine how
I could use GREP to help with this *chore*. In the haste to dump
large deep folders, I don't want to accidentally delete the only
copy I have of something; been there, done that. (Gosh, I hate to
clean out things!)
I'm thinking that between BBEdit's search, the Finder's search, and
Spotlight, maybe some scriptable comparison of results would work.
Assuming this isn't workable or practical, does anyone have any
other cleaning-out advice?
Thanks for any ideas,
Mary
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