Re: Creative solution required - transfer of folders contents to database

2009-01-05 Thread Roger Kortas
hi Steven I may be looking at this in a simplistic manner but could you not use some thing like CD Finder to index those folders and it will keep links to all folders and files? With out knowing why you are tying to do it that way this seems very simple to me :) Roger On 05/01/2009,

Re: Creative solution required - transfer of folders contents to database

2009-01-05 Thread James / Hans Kunz
just my 2c why not use a webpage/ftp system the webpage shows a list with all the names (is searchable with the find command) each name has a link to the folder with the same name (but the folder could be on a different place within the intranet) it's in a similar fashion as with pix

Creative solution required - transfer of folders contents to database

2009-01-04 Thread Steven Knowles
I'm sure there's a solution to this problem, but I don't know what the solution is. Hoping for a creative genius!! Maybe it can't be done. I'm using latest MacOS (10.5.6). I currently have a collection of 147 folders. Each of these folders have been labeled with a person's full name in the

Re: Creative solution required - transfer of folders contents to database

2009-01-04 Thread Glenn Nicholas
Steven, one approach would be to use shell scripts. Using shell scripts (access via Terminal), you can put a list of file names into a file using ls and redirecting output $ ls * listoffiles.txt So that gets you a text file with all your directory names in it. It is fairly easy to create a

Re: Creative solution required - transfer of folders contents to database

2009-01-04 Thread James Devenish
Hi Steven, This can be done. But it really depends on the database! If the database simply stores the person's identity and a link to the folder, then the task is relatively easy, since you only need to assemble the personal names and folders locations into a text spreasheet and import it into