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Suggestion: Search similar files from selection
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 11:52 am
by 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
Re: Suggestion: Search similar files from selection
Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 12:14 pm
by 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
2. Select all
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.
Re: Suggestion: Search similar files from selection
Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 7:48 pm
by 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)
Re: Suggestion: Search similar files from selection
Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 8:19 pm
by oops66
orbspider wrote: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 ?