For serious file work, I like to use Krusader. *PROBLEM BACKGROUND*
I recently realised I'd got myself into a mess with photo files. I'd made a mistake (for me) and let Shotwell create day/month/year dirs. Somehow, I have ended up with two photo dir trees, plus a few specific dirs with copies of photos, and non-copies of photos. What started out as a seemingly logical storage format....... in use, it was anything but. Eg. Holidays across Crimbo & New Year, result in files all over the shop. Personally, I'd advise sticking every upload of photos into its own dir as this provides perfect initial event/subject grouping..... but anyway, the problem gets worse. if the digital camera is reset, or third party photos are added, different photos will have the same name. Krusader was very helpful. I moved the files from each day dir, into a single dir (repository) Went up, deleted the dir, and opened the next one and repeat...... I got quite quick at it. It slowed down when Krusader put up two photos having the same name. I could click suggest name, and rename. I got quick at that too...... this feature in Krusader was excellent. *So from the primary tree I now have all the images in one dir.* I cannot face repeating this for the second tree, which does have different files in it. I could do all that slave-like work, and still end up with masses of file copies of a different name. *What I Need To Do* .... is to compare all the files in a dir tree, with the files in the repository dir. I need to end up with a list of files in the left pane, that don't exist in the right pane. File names don't count, because we know that different photos have the same file name. It's the file data that must be different. I could then move all the files from the left pane, into the right pane. Then delete the source tree. Job done. Is this possible...... and what modules do I need to install? *Note*: I was examining the compare command, and I was warned I was missing certain programming. Perhaps the missing progs can be installed through software centre? :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "krusader-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to krusader-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to krusader-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/krusader-users/4d13af2d-1001-403d-8033-de4a7b0bc45b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
