john glinske wrote:
Organizing photos six or seven hard drives into one.
the best program or way to organize and many duplicates
I have
YEAR,MONTH,DAY,TOPIC
eg
2020-12-27 HappyBirthdayMOM
a lot of pictures on 6 drives and many duplicates
need a safe, sure way of transferring all to one drive
Turn on verification; it will do hashes to make sure the copy is identical. Note: Copy copies all the files, then does the verify, leaving the originals in place. Move does the verify individually, verifying then deleting the original if and only if the hashes match.
Any problem files will not stop the copy/move; errors are written to a log so you can correct later. Being once burnt by a windows explorer copy that didn't, I've used Teracopy for over a decade. I use it every day to move files around.
I have both a paid version and the freeware version (Lite is the freeware). Paid will find duplicates across drives, Lite only works on one drive. It uses hashes to find exact duplicates (clones), and I really appreciate its SmartMark capability.