file properties

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I have a few thousand photographs on my system, but I slowly drown in backups
of backups of backups, which now amount to roughly five times the number of
originals.
I thought if I could access the file properties sheet and record the details
against each file in "access" or somesuch I could soon weed out -
automatically - a great many of the duplicates.
But how do I access the file properties sheet against each file to write it
to a database record against the file name and location?
Is it possible?
 
Thank you for that. That bit of software willl come in really handy.
Unfortunately, useful as it is, it doesn't quite hit the spot as far as my
present problem is concerned. After I've got the database of originals I
propose to use it to make sense of the pile of dvd "backups" I have gathered.
 
I doubt there is any cheap utility to do that. I would generate a 'dir' type
output to a text file of the backup and use a database app like Access to do
a query for duplicates. It might take a while to find out how to list the
files, and how to do the query, but it's all there in the help. No app you
download is going to be any easier to learn.

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Mark L. Ferguson

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Thank you. Done that. I used dir H:*.jpg /s > g:dir.txt There isn't enough
data in such a simple dir listing to pick up duplicates with any degree of
certainty. It was at that point I noticed that the file properties sheet for
each file does have all the data I need to be pretty sure of having got a
duplicate, and so why I asked whether it is possible to access the properties
sheet either directly or by some sort of extended dir command.

Bearing in mind there are several thousand images on each DVD, sure as hell
I'm not doing it by hand!

:-)
 
Sorry, no. What I want is to be able to read the file property sheets into a
database. Looking elsewhere it would seem eminently possible, but the
techniques being discussed are way beyond my pay grade. Is there a simple (as
in childlike) way of acquiring the info in these sheets?
 
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