-=PCTechTalk=- Re: File manager
- From: "Don101" <don101@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:24:43 -0400
I think a combination of Rogers software and your procedures will
likely do the trick. Thanks to both of you.
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gman" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:57 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: File manager
> Don,
> The best advice I can give is that you will need to Copy or Move
> the
> smaller collection into a folder within the larger collection and
> then run a
> duplicate finder type app on the combined collecton. Leaving them
> on two
> different drives would force you to tell a dupe finding app to scan
> the
> entire contents of both drives and that would likely overpower the
> app &/or
> dilute your results.
>
> My favorite dupe locator is currently CloneMaster. I use an
> older
> version (2.19) simply because I didn't like all of the bloat they
> added in
> 3.0 and higher. It's not a freeware app, but it's very thorough and
> goes by
> the file's CRC to find true duplicates, regardless of their names.
>
> I use ACDSee as my favorite image manager. Again, I prefer an
> older
> version (3.1) because subsequent versions added too much bload for
> features
> that are worthless to me. It turns out that this app also knows how
> to
> properly handle duplicates, even for files that are not image types.
> It has
> an Explorer-like interface that makes it easy to move the contents
> of one
> folder into another that contains the same or similar files. If any
> two
> files are the same, it will simply overwrite them. Any that are
> different
> will be shown to you and you'll have the choice to replace
> (overwrite) the
> destination copy, rename the moving copy or delete either one to
> settle the
> matter. This ability needs to be set up properly in the Options,
> but that's
> easy enough to do and I could walk you through it quickly if you
> choose to
> go this route. ACDSee is also not a freeware app and I believe it's
> up to
> version 9.x or so by now.
>
> When I get some time, I'll see if I can locate any decent
> freeware
> programs you can use to accomplish the same thing without spending
> anything,
> especially since the apps I use are no longer available at any price
> unless
> you're willing to pay for the bloat of the newer versions.
>
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