Suggestion: Search similar files from selection

[orbspider]

At the moment, I can't figure out how to search for similar files from the selected files

It would be very helpful if

• 1. I can select files e.g. favorites that I want to print
  2. I can search for files with same name in my Originals backup on another directory
  3. files are found and I can copy them to a new folder!

I can work around this by copying/moving selected files to a new folder and then run the search between this new folder and backup location,
And then I need to click on the copyto button for every file to extract all the needed Originals to a new folder ready for printing

[orbspider]

Here's the method that saved my butt yesterday, when my colleague needed about two or three thousand of my original pics, and they were all nestled in my backup disk...

Well I got them all for him in about an hour or less.

1. Did Category filter
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3. Edit menu > Copy to clipboard > selected filenames
4. Pasted file names into a file called "copylist"
5. Ran a script called "findcopypics"
6. Moved the found originals to another location
7. Repeat 1.-6.

want to know what the script looks like?
like this

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#!/bin/bash

dir=/media/625GB/z\ photo\ backup/                        #location of originals to search in
dest=/media/FILES/PRINT/FIND/                             #location to send found originals
toCopyList=/media/FILES/my\ pictures/copylist             #location of file with file names to search for
notCopied=/media/FILES/my\ pictures/missed                #location of file to dump file names of file not found from search

while read line; do
   find "$dir" -name "$line" -exec cp '{}' $dest \; -printf "%f\n"    
done < "$toCopyList" > cpList

 cat cpList "$toCopyList" | sort | uniq -c | sed -nr '/^ +1/s/^ +1 +(.*)/\1/p' \
    > "$notCopied"

it will even report on files that were not copied (or not found).
it could be better, I had help with this from stack exchange, but it works.

[oops66]

Hello,

Maybe it will be interesting to have the result of the search saved into DB, a category " - Similar" ... so:

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- Special items
           - Tag(n)
           - Uncategorized
           - All
           + Similar(n Items) (at mini. similarity = x)
                  - Item 1(n)
                  - Item 2(n)            
                  - ...
                  - Item n(n)

[oops66]

At the moment, I can't figure out how to search for similar files from the selected files ?

Hello, usually the best way to do that is to: tag them all before, then selects them (into -Special items\- Tag(n)), then find similar search tool (or copy/paste or else).

...But your are right, this way does not work with the similar search tool ... probably a bug ?