On 23-Nov-2012, Default User <default-user@me.none> wrote:
> Pure curiosity, here.
> I use a program called PicTracker to check files, and it does pretty
> well. One thing it doesn't do is search sub-directories for files, or,
> in my case, parent directories. For example, I tend to keep all my
> photo files in the same directory, as long as the file names for each
> set of a collection are unitque. Most of the CSV files I have found
> here show that the more popular organisation is to put each set in its
> own sub-directory.
> I recently uploaded a CSV of files that I lacked in one of my LS
> collections. Xenos responded quite promptly with an upload of those
> files. If his files were organised in sub-directories, and he were
> searching for the files listed in my CSV, would Pickcheck or Hunter (or
> both) have been able to find those files on his system?
Yes, both programs can find pictures anywhere
> For me to accomplish such a task I have to edit the CSV so that the
> organisation in the file matches the organization on my system. This is
> a simple task for me as all I have to do is delete the Path column. I
> can see how this might be a more tedious task had I been required to
> ADD paths in that CSV file.
You bouth a Mac, live with that or install WINE
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_%28software%29)
then use PICCHECK, Hunteer, CSVShop, etc
> And to go beyond my idle curiousity, am I discouraging some from
> offering help with my "fills" in the way my CSV files are organised?
If you can't fill the way Xenos did (fast, etc) how can you expect otherts
to feel encouraged to help you?
> Did Xenos have to edit my CSV file to find my files in sub-directories?
> That is, provided that his files ar in sub-directories?
No. Hunter and PICCHECK can find any picture in a csv anywhere in your
drives.
> Finally, does the "Miss_Wrong" string within the filename of CSV's of
> missing files mean anything beyond communicating to humans that said
> CSV is not meant to check a collection.
no. Miss_Wrong is a suffix for fill requests. _needed is a good alternative.
Regards,
Wintermute
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