I've mentioned before I've been trying to reconcile my back catalog to
make the file organization and naming conventions I use consistent
throughout.
Yesterday, I finished doing batch renames on a whole year's photos and
copied them to a backup hard-drive. I already had a previous backup of
that years photos on the backup hard-drive, so before removing the old
backup I made a comparison between the two folders to make sure I wasn't
getting ready to lose anything.
The old backup copy is f:\images\2004_Photography. The new backup copy
is f:\images\2004. Once I'm sure the new backup has everything the the
old one had plus any work I've done on the images since then, I can
erase the old backup copy to make room for the next year.
What I end up with a a spreadsheet with a line by line comparison
between the files in the old folder and the files in the new folder.
Looking at them that way, it's readily apparent if there's anything in
either copy that's not in the other. Mainly, I'm looking for any files
in the old copy that are not in the new one so I can include them.
I found a couple of instances of .psd files that I apparently worked on
directly on the backup drive before I got the NAS drive; back when I was
using my laptop as my workstation.
Otherwise the old and new were the same *except* ...
The file sizes for all of the .jpg files and all of the .tif files have
apparently shrunk from the batch rename.
I don't quite understand how this could happen, but it is consistent
throughout.
f:\images\2004_Photography\20040606-2_Brigade_patch
f:\images\2004\20040606-02_Brigade_patch
old 08/14/2010 05:50 AM 828,396 istD0841.JPG
new 06/06/2004 01:44 PM 823,860 istD-00841.JPG
old 08/14/2010 05:50 AM 856,069 istD0842.JPG
new 06/06/2004 01:44 PM 851,533 istD-00842.JPG
f:\images\2004_Photography\20040629_Whiskey-4_2
f:\images\2004\20040630_Whiskey4_2
old 08/14/2010 06:04 AM 4,842,374 istD0989.TIF
new 06/30/2004 10:00 PM 4,833,720 istD-00989.TIF
old 08/14/2010 06:04 AM 4,842,374 istD0990.TIF
new 06/30/2004 10:00 PM 4,833,720 istD-00990.TIF
f:\images\2004_Photography\20040702_A-120_Bernstein_Memorial
f:\images\2004\20040702_Bernstein_A120_Memorial
old 08/14/2010 06:10 AM 152,981 A60_0258.JPG
new 07/01/2004 04:13 PM 147,823 A60-00258.JPG
old 08/14/2010 06:10 AM 190,191 A60_0259.JPG
new 07/01/2004 04:13 PM 185,033 A60-00259.JPG
I thought when you renamed a file it didn't change the file size? I
thought you had to open the file and save it again.
The few .PEF files I have from 2004 didn't change size, nor did the file
date change in the first copy. The .xmp files did change size, getting a
whole lot smaller.
f:\images\2004_Photography\20040626_Maintenance_section
f:\images\2004\20040626_Maintenance_in_Iraq
old 06/26/2004 03:15 PM 13,435,352 istD0913.PEF
old 08/14/2010 06:02 AM 9,532 istD0913.xmp
new 06/26/2004 03:15 PM 13,435,352 istD-00913.PEF
new 09/24/2011 05:44 PM 4,753 istD-00913.xmp
old 06/26/2004 03:15 PM 13,068,575 istD0914.PEF
old 08/14/2010 06:02 AM 9,459 istD0914.xmp
new 06/26/2004 03:15 PM 13,068,575 istD-00914.PEF
new 09/24/2011 05:44 PM 4,778 istD-00914.xmp
08/14/2010 is when I made the first copy of the archive onto the backup
disk. For some reason the way I made the first copy gave copied JPEG,
TIFF and XMP files a new date, but didn't affect the date on the PEF files.
MM/DD/2004 is the actual file date when I took the photos.
These files had been renamed before and I think I might have used Adobe
Bridge from CS3 when I did it the first time. I don't think I got my
copy of CS5 until later in the year.
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