Hi David -
If the last modified date of all non-name-changed files is the same (as I
suspect they would be if they came from a digital camera), you could use 'the
detailed files' to identify all files in the directory with dates different than
that 'standard' mod date. Those would be the changed ones. Of course from that
you won't know what was changed about them, only that they were changed.
HTH -
Phil Davis
David Glasgow wrote:
I am looking for a quick and dirty method for walking a directory and
finding files that have been renamed by the user. I don't need to find
them all, just as many as possible. The folders are likely to
originally contain matching stems and progressive numbers pjf017.jpg,
pjf018 .jpg, pfj019 .jpg etc. etc, with the user renamed files standing
out completely arbitrarily by not following the pattern .
At the moment I do this using the eyeball test, which is remarkably
quick and efficient but very very very boring because there are often
thousands of files to scan. One approach I thought of is to
progressively filter the folders' contents by nibbling a character off
the end of the first filename. If it is completely unique (and possibly
therefore renamed), nothing will happen. However if 9 other files
disappear, it was a name representative of progressive pattern. Nibble
another character, and so on until it is gone, and any filenames left
over didn't fit the dominant pattern in the folder. Yes? No? . Any
other suggestions?
Best Wishes,
David Glasgow
Carlton Glasgow Partnership
http://www.i-psych.co.uk
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