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Macros are for rare repetative tasks   [ZEP]

By: Steve Rawling     Sydney  
Date: May 17,2015 at 10:03
In Response to: [ZEP] Move/Copy with selective rename (John Leslie)

> What I'd like to do in an automated way is to copy or move files
> from Directory A to B, renaming the source (via a mask) if the same name
> exists at the destination but isn't the same size and not moving if the
> destination file is the same name/size. I get I can rename the source or
> destination one at a time, but I just moved 300 files of which about half
> were duplicates and 45% had the same name as destination files but were
> different. This is not uncommon for me.
>
> As an example of how this can happen... the problem with cameras is
> they wrap around their naming conventions, reusing file names. Also
> cameras from the same manufacturers name images the same way. I'd like
> to avoid storing duplicates, avoid renaming when not necessary and avoid
> losing stuff by overwriting.
>
> You could just have a default renaming scheme (for same name/different
> size) and then sort them yourself afterwards, but a mask seems handier.
>
> BTW I don't care about dates as they can creep apart for various
> reasons, but others may.

Mmm, though that task may be regular task for you, sounds to me like it would be very irregular or most, though I could be wrong
.
Macros are perfect for tasks that are regular for you but not sufficiently regular to warrant more hard coding work for Kim.

Cheers
Steve

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