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Post by callsign on Feb 1, 2016 20:11:26 GMT
I'm still busy Moving files from F: to M:, it's a long tedious job and I'm far from certain it will provide the answer I seek, but we live in hope.
As part of the exercise I had a look at the recyle bin to see if that might be slowing things down (I'm not sure I would know if it was, anyway) but noticed instead that what I'm doing appears to be generating loads of files for the bin.
To the best of my knowledge I did not delete one file today, I was just involved in simple/difficult/very difficult Moves, yet the bin is populated by some 28 files each one of which is duplicated: the deletion date is todays date; the date modified varies from today to several years ago.
Is this just the usual, routine way in which PSE 14 handles the Move command and I have nothing to worry about or ...........
The same thing appears to have been happening since the middle of December and I am aware now that there are many TIFF files missing from the catalogue that I shall have to set about finding once I have finished transferring the files to M: |
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Post by michelb on Feb 1, 2016 20:17:13 GMT
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Post by callsign on Feb 2, 2016 14:19:17 GMT
Thank you, Michel, very interesting. I shall not be clearing my Recycle Bin for some time then!!!
When I've finished the Moving side of this protracted business, I think the next step will be to marry up the TIFFs to the JPEGs, possibly searching through the metadata, which I haven't done before. Still as Sue enjoins me from time to time to 'Learn something new everyday' I must look upon it as yet another challenge.
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Post by michelb on Feb 2, 2016 14:37:03 GMT
Thank you, Michel, very interesting. I shall not be clearing my Recycle Bin for some time then!!! When I've finished the Moving side of this protracted business, I think the next step will be to marry up the TIFFs to the JPEGs, possibly searching through the metadata, which I haven't done before. Still as Sue enjoins me from time to time to 'Learn something new everyday' I must look upon it as yet another challenge. The general idea to link tiffs and jpegs together is to 'stack' them. The organizer offers a tool for that. It works by searching photos with 'visual similarity'. Lets say you have a whole batch of tiffs and jpegs and you want to stack them (something like linking version sets). You highlight the files to be stacked, You Right click to get the contextual menu and choose the option to 'automatically suggest stacks'. The process may need some time until you are shown a dialog to accept the suggested stacks. Before trying that on many files, it is recommended to use the catalog manager, highlight your current catalog and click on the button 'repair'. You should get the dialog that no repair is needed, but you can check a checkbox to 'reindex for visual similarity'. This may take a long time, but later on, when you try to stack your candidates, the process will be much faster. |
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Post by callsign on Feb 2, 2016 17:19:09 GMT
Thank you, Michel, but I have to say the last time I used 'visual similarity' the results were so appalling and time wasting that I vowed I'd never use it again. But any port in a storm - we shall see.
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Post by callsign on Feb 2, 2016 17:34:41 GMT
There are times when I begin to wonder about my sanity!
Yesterday, when I had finished with the Recycle Bin, and the computer, there were some 800 items left in it, having been reduced from around 7,000 after a deleted backup got in by the back door.
Today I have been doing the usual pottering Moving files into M:, at no time that I can recall did I look into the Recycle Bin. Until this evening, when I was packing up, and to my astonishment the number of items has been reduced to 231 and there is not a single item there for yesterday and today!!
What goes on? |
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Post by callsign on Oct 27, 2016 11:47:23 GMT
In December last I started this thread which recited the problems I was having with corrupted drives and backups.
In February I retired from view to concentrate on restructuring my catalog of some 20,000 images, half of which, the TIFFs, were not where they should have been. It has been a long, mind bending job but I think it is now completed. I have been road testing the end result and it seems to be working and backing up without any problems.
Actually I do have a big real problem because for nearly a year I have done nothing else but tedious repair work and I now find that I have forgotten so much that I used to do almost semi-automatically that it is almost like starting again, worse, actually, so perhaps it wasn't such a good idea to get so out of touch. Anyway, I think I may be troubling you again for help if I draw blanks on the web and my books and files etc and I'm sure you will be as helpful the second time round as you were in the first.
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