How to compare two albums?

[christian graesser]

How can i compare  1700 filtered images (all from 2017 with star rating 4) with  a folder/album  that contains  1500 images to find the missing ones and copy only those.

The problem came up while i wanted to copy the 1700 filtered images into a new album, but after 1500 image the harddrive was full and the copying stopped. How do i know which are missing?

Thanks for the help

Christian

[Martin Burnicki-2]

CD.Graesser wrote:
> How can i compare  1700 filtered images (all from 2017 with star rating
> 4) with  a folder/album  that contains  1500 images to find the missing
> ones and copy only those.
>
> The problem came up while i wanted to copy the 1700 filtered images into
> a new album, but after 1500 image the harddrive was full and the copying
> stopped. How do i know which are missing?

Albums are simply directories, so you could just open a command line
window, list the files, pipe the output into a text file and compare the
text files from both directories.

The exact commands depend on the OS you are running: Linux? Windows?

Martin

[NeiNei]

Hi Martin,
just out of curiosity.
Would there be also a DigiKam built-in solution for this problem? If not
something with GUI outside DigiKam?

Thanks,
NeiNei

On 08.02.2018 23:34, Martin Burnicki wrote:

> CD.Graesser wrote:
>> How can i compare  1700 filtered images (all from 2017 with star rating
>> 4) with  a folder/album  that contains  1500 images to find the missing
>> ones and copy only those.
>>
>> The problem came up while i wanted to copy the 1700 filtered images into
>> a new album, but after 1500 image the harddrive was full and the copying
>> stopped. How do i know which are missing?
>
> Albums are simply directories, so you could just open a command line
> window, list the files, pipe the output into a text file and compare the
> text files from both directories.
>
> The exact commands depend on the OS you are running: Linux? Windows?
>
> Martin
>

[christian graesser]

The question more general is how to synchronize the images from certain filter with the content of an album.

On 9 Feb 2018 07:45, "NeiNei" <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Martin,
just out of curiosity.
Would there be also a DigiKam built-in solution for this problem? If not something with GUI outside DigiKam?

Thanks,
NeiNei

On 08.02.2018 23:34, Martin Burnicki wrote:

CD.Graesser wrote:

How can i compare  1700 filtered images (all from 2017 with star rating
4) with  a folder/album  that contains  1500 images to find the missing
ones and copy only those.

The problem came up while i wanted to copy the 1700 filtered images into
a new album, but after 1500 image the harddrive was full and the copying
stopped. How do i know which are missing?

Albums are simply directories, so you could just open a command line
window, list the files, pipe the output into a text file and compare the
text files from both directories.

The exact commands depend on the OS you are running: Linux? Windows?

Martin

[Andrew Goodbody]

I use Beyond Compare by Scooter Software. Its not free in any sense but
it is the best comparison GUI that I know of and I have paid to use it
at home and work bought me a copy as well.

http://scootersoftware.com/

There are other solutions out there, just Google for 'directory
comparison program' and you'll get many hits.

Andrew

On 09/02/18 06:44, NeiNei wrote:

> Hi Martin,
> just out of curiosity.
> Would there be also a DigiKam built-in solution for this problem? If not
> something with GUI outside DigiKam?
>
> Thanks,
> NeiNei
>
> On 08.02.2018 23:34, Martin Burnicki wrote:
>> CD.Graesser wrote:
>>> How can i compare  1700 filtered images (all from 2017 with star rating
>>> 4) with  a folder/album  that contains  1500 images to find the missing
>>> ones and copy only those.
>>>
>>> The problem came up while i wanted to copy the 1700 filtered images into
>>> a new album, but after 1500 image the harddrive was full and the copying
>>> stopped. How do i know which are missing?
>>
>> Albums are simply directories, so you could just open a command line
>> window, list the files, pipe the output into a text file and compare the
>> text files from both directories.
>>
>> The exact commands depend on the OS you are running: Linux? Windows?
>>
>> Martin
>>
>
>

[tosca]

On Linux, you can use Meld to make such comparisons.

Marie-Noëlle

2018-02-09 10:02 GMT+01:00 Andrew Goodbody <[hidden email]>:

I use Beyond Compare by Scooter Software. Its not free in any sense but it is the best comparison GUI that I know of and I have paid to use it at home and work bought me a copy as well.

http://scootersoftware.com/

There are other solutions out there, just Google for 'directory comparison program' and you'll get many hits.

Andrew

On 09/02/18 06:44, NeiNei wrote:

Hi Martin,
just out of curiosity.
Would there be also a DigiKam built-in solution for this problem? If not something with GUI outside DigiKam?

Thanks,
NeiNei

On 08.02.2018 23:34, Martin Burnicki wrote:

CD.Graesser wrote:

How can i compare  1700 filtered images (all from 2017 with star rating
4) with  a folder/album  that contains  1500 images to find the missing
ones and copy only those.

The problem came up while i wanted to copy the 1700 filtered images into
a new album, but after 1500 image the harddrive was full and the copying
stopped. How do i know which are missing?

Albums are simply directories, so you could just open a command line
window, list the files, pipe the output into a text file and compare the
text files from both directories.

The exact commands depend on the OS you are running: Linux? Windows?

Martin

--

[AndriusWild]

Double commander does this. I think it is available for every platform. It is open source for sure.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------

From: Marie-Noëlle Augendre <[hidden email]>

Date: 2018-02-09 2:23 AM (GMT-07:00)

To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: How to compare two albums?

On Linux, you can use Meld to make such comparisons.

Marie-Noëlle

2018-02-09 10:02 GMT+01:00 Andrew Goodbody <[hidden email]>:

I use Beyond Compare by Scooter Software. Its not free in any sense but it is the best comparison GUI that I know of and I have paid to use it at home and work bought me a copy as well.

http://scootersoftware.com/

There are other solutions out there, just Google for 'directory comparison program' and you'll get many hits.

Andrew

On 09/02/18 06:44, NeiNei wrote:

Hi Martin,
just out of curiosity.
Would there be also a DigiKam built-in solution for this problem? If not something with GUI outside DigiKam?

Thanks,
NeiNei

On 08.02.2018 23:34, Martin Burnicki wrote:

CD.Graesser wrote:

How can i compare  1700 filtered images (all from 2017 with star rating
4) with  a folder/album  that contains  1500 images to find the missing
ones and copy only those.

The problem came up while i wanted to copy the 1700 filtered images into
a new album, but after 1500 image the harddrive was full and the copying
stopped. How do i know which are missing?

Albums are simply directories, so you could just open a command line
window, list the files, pipe the output into a text file and compare the
text files from both directories.

The exact commands depend on the OS you are running: Linux? Windows?

Martin

--

[Peter Albrecht]

Hi Christian,

another trick, which I use sometimes in digiKam 4.4.0 (but I guess this will
work in your digiKam version, too):
Seeing the results of your search (thumbnails) in the main middle view of
digiKam, you can hit CTRL+A to select all photos of the search result. Then hit
CTRL+C. This will copy a list of all selected files to the clipboard:

  file:///home/user/pictures/myPic001.jpg
  file:///home/user/pictures/myPic002.jpg
  file:///home/user/pictures/myPic003.jpg
  file:///home/user/pictures/myPic004.jpg
  ...

You can paste this in a texteditor and compare this textfile to another textfile
created by another search result or album view. I guess Meld
(http://meldmerge.org/) will be a good choice to compare textfiles.
(Thanks Marie-Noëlle for this recommendation.)

Regards,
        Peter

On 08.02.2018 23:06, CD.Graesser wrote:

> How can i compare  1700 filtered images (all from 2017 with star rating 4)
> with  a folder/album  that contains  1500 images to find the missing ones
> and copy only those.
>
> The problem came up while i wanted to copy the 1700 filtered images into a
> new album, but after 1500 image the harddrive was full and the copying
> stopped. How do i know which are missing?
>
> Thanks for the help
>
> Christian
>

[AndriusWild]

This is how it looks:

https://sourceforge.net/p/doublecmd/screenshot/SyncDirs.png

You can select which ones to show: <, >, =, != etc.

I use the tool all the time.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------

From: Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]>

Date: 2018-02-09 6:06 AM (GMT-07:00)

To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: How to compare two albums?

Double commander does this. I think it is available for every platform. It is open source for sure.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------

From: Marie-Noëlle Augendre <[hidden email]>

Date: 2018-02-09 2:23 AM (GMT-07:00)

To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: How to compare two albums?

On Linux, you can use Meld to make such comparisons.

Marie-Noëlle

2018-02-09 10:02 GMT+01:00 Andrew Goodbody <[hidden email]>:

I use Beyond Compare by Scooter Software. Its not free in any sense but it is the best comparison GUI that I know of and I have paid to use it at home and work bought me a copy as well.

http://scootersoftware.com/

There are other solutions out there, just Google for 'directory comparison program' and you'll get many hits.

Andrew

On 09/02/18 06:44, NeiNei wrote:

Hi Martin,
just out of curiosity.
Would there be also a DigiKam built-in solution for this problem? If not something with GUI outside DigiKam?

Thanks,
NeiNei

On 08.02.2018 23:34, Martin Burnicki wrote:

CD.Graesser wrote:

How can i compare  1700 filtered images (all from 2017 with star rating
4) with  a folder/album  that contains  1500 images to find the missing
ones and copy only those.

The problem came up while i wanted to copy the 1700 filtered images into
a new album, but after 1500 image the harddrive was full and the copying
stopped. How do i know which are missing?

Albums are simply directories, so you could just open a command line
window, list the files, pipe the output into a text file and compare the
text files from both directories.

The exact commands depend on the OS you are running: Linux? Windows?

Martin

--

[PackElend]

another good option in this regard: https://www.freefilesync.org/

2018-02-09 14:53 GMT+01:00 Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]>:

This is how it looks:

https://sourceforge.net/p/doublecmd/screenshot/SyncDirs.png

You can select which ones to show: <, >, =, != etc.

I use the tool all the time.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------

From: Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]>

Date: 2018-02-09 6:06 AM (GMT-07:00)

To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: How to compare two albums?

Double commander does this. I think it is available for every platform. It is open source for sure.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------

From: Marie-Noëlle Augendre <[hidden email]>

Date: 2018-02-09 2:23 AM (GMT-07:00)

To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: How to compare two albums?

On Linux, you can use Meld to make such comparisons.

Marie-Noëlle

2018-02-09 10:02 GMT+01:00 Andrew Goodbody <[hidden email]>:

I use Beyond Compare by Scooter Software. Its not free in any sense but it is the best comparison GUI that I know of and I have paid to use it at home and work bought me a copy as well.

http://scootersoftware.com/

There are other solutions out there, just Google for 'directory comparison program' and you'll get many hits.

Andrew

On 09/02/18 06:44, NeiNei wrote:

Hi Martin,
just out of curiosity.
Would there be also a DigiKam built-in solution for this problem? If not something with GUI outside DigiKam?

Thanks,
NeiNei

On 08.02.2018 23:34, Martin Burnicki wrote:

CD.Graesser wrote:

How can i compare  1700 filtered images (all from 2017 with star rating
4) with  a folder/album  that contains  1500 images to find the missing
ones and copy only those.

The problem came up while i wanted to copy the 1700 filtered images into
a new album, but after 1500 image the harddrive was full and the copying
stopped. How do i know which are missing?

Albums are simply directories, so you could just open a command line
window, list the files, pipe the output into a text file and compare the
text files from both directories.

The exact commands depend on the OS you are running: Linux? Windows?

Martin

--

[Martin Burnicki-2]

Am 09.02.2018 um 14:57 schrieb Stefan Mueller:
> another good option in this regard: https://www.freefilesync.org/

All these nice tools don't seem to work for the OP, though, if the
source directory contains a mixture of images with different ratings, an
the OP just wants to synchronize all images with a specific rating to a
destination directory.

If I understand this now correctly, this would mean if the rating of an
image in the source directory is changed to the appropriate value then
the image is afterward synchronized to the destination directory, or if
the rating is removed from the image in the source directory then the
image is deleted from the destination directory.

The only way that comes to my mind to achieve this is to mark all the
images with the appropriate rating in DK and copy the images to a
temporary album/folder, the use one of the mentioned file utilities to
synchronize the destination directory with the temporary directory.

Martin

[ralphl]

I may not understand the question, but I am running Xubuntu with the Thunar
file manager.  When I have 2 folders with some photos duplicated in each
folder, I just select all the photos in one folder and copy to the other
using Thunar.  When Thunar encounters a duplicate file, it asks if I want to
Skip.  I click on the Skip All box and all the duplicates are deleted.  Of
course, this means that one cannot have different photos, that need to be
saved, with the same name.



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