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Finding and moving all camera pics

  • 11-01-2011 10:43pm
    #1
    Chet T16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭


    So...over the last 4 years all the pics from the digital camera have been spread over 3 different machines and each machine has ended up with duplicates and resized pics using the original filename in different folders here there and everywhere.

    The time has come to organise them into one central location and i can't find a program that'll do the job for me.

    Theres a total of 4000ish pics and all will have the original filenames, starting at DSC00001

    I've ran a search on one PC using the standard XP search looking for files that contain DSC000 to limit the results to 100 files but its throws up LOADS (for the reasons stated above) and i would need to select each original file manually which would take ages! What i want is a program that'll do the search then pull out the original files based on filesize/exif/created date

    Forgetting that theres a couple of machines, i'd be happy with one folder containing all the files from each machine and deal with cross machine duplicates at another stage.

    Any ideas to save me going mad doing this manually?


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  • #2
    woolymammoth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭woolymammoth


    if it were me, i'd move all of them to one PC. Put them into folders, PC1, PC2, PC3. Maybe create some more folders based on months, sort files by date and move them. You could do that pretty quickly. Then run some duplicate software on the lot to get rid of a bunch. be aggressive with deleting rubbish photos, sort by dimensions to weed out the smaller resized photos. Picasa is a good tool for organising and managing photos too. It's a messy job but there's only one way to do it!


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