On 27 January 2011 14:25, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote:
> What I'm looking for is a program that will allow me to see what files exist > on two different drives and to see what directory they're in, and see enough > info about the files to determine if they're the same file. > > That's so I can find the files that fill the gaps and find the files that > have duplicated names. > > And find the sub-directories where I fat fingered while updating > sub-directory names so "\\20050621_rose-garden" became "\\20051206_rose > garden". > > Or even worse "\\20060521_rose garden". > > I want a program to show me the discrepancies, so I don't have to go through > and output a directory listing for each folder on each drive and plow > through a line by line comparison to find the mismatches before I can wipe > the drive and make it a real backup. > > I want a program to high-light the discrepancies and tell me: > > "This file is here on this drive, but it's there on that drive." > > OR > > "This file is here on this drive, but it's not on the other drive." > > OR > > "These two files have the same name, but they're not the same file." > > I'd like something graphical, sort of like the old Windows File Manager, but > it shows the discrepancies in *BOLD* or highlighted. Sounds like you have a mess and need a combination of tools, no one tool that I know of would do the job. My guess is that a combination of duplicate file finder coupled with an image management application that can find files that look the same (such as Thumbs plus) and a sync utility would sort out the mess along with a lot of manual intervention. I don't envy you. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
