I want to copy ALL my photos to a 2TB ext hard drive. Some are jpg and some (most) are tif. I can't seem to find ALL my photos. What is the easiest way to find them all to copy? I use Windows 10.
thanks, Don
It seems like you have them in multiple directories, instead of all under one main root directory? If you did, you could just copy the image root directory to the destination drive.
It depends on how you stored them.
Not knowing the directory structure(s) you use, maybe the simplest method would be to use Windows explorer (if available in Win 10) and do a search for ".jpeg"; ".jpg"; and ".tiff". Three different searches. Look for the directory that contains the results and copy those directories to the destination drive.
Unless you have moved them to some other file, all should be under Pictures in File Explorer. It may look like they are elsewhere, but if you check under pictures, you will find that same file.
TriX
Loc: Raleigh, NC
Either do a Windows file search on *.jpg and *.tiff or download a copy of everything - an excellent search tool that indeed, finds everything.
Probably addressing the obvious -- but what the hell ---
Lets assume you find all the photos -- After that it's all a matter of how you go about indexing them -- Have of course no idea what you have but will tell you how I go about indexing mine -- Most of mine are from places we have traveled to - Based on that I organize/index mine into folders appropriately named/dated and or events named & dated-- Or people or --------- In my folders I keep the Original RAW Image & the jpg finished product
thanks to all. big help!!
Open File Explorer and click on the Search box, then set desired search parameters (file extension, minimum file size, etc.).
I use a free program called Everything. Using that, I can search for jpg, and it will show me all JPEG files. Unfortunately, many of them will be graphics associated with programs, but they are easy enough to identify. Below is part of what Everything found. This section shows JPEGs from a DVD program, so I would just skip them.
jerryc41 wrote:
I use a free program called Everything. Using that, I can search for jpg, and it will show me all JPEG files. Unfortunately, many of them will be graphics associated with programs, but they are easy enough to identify. Below is part of what Everything found. This section shows JPEGs from a DVD program, so I would just skip them.
I use one called "Search Everything" (maybe the same thing as Jerry's). It's free and works well
If you are using Lightroom don't forget you need to do the move within Lightroom!
bohleber wrote:
I want to copy ALL my photos to a 2TB ext hard drive. Some are jpg and some (most) are tif. I can't seem to find ALL my photos. What is the easiest way to find them all to copy? I use Windows 10.
thanks, Don
All I always do, is to just select the pic, or the folder, so its highlighted and right-ckick for menu and chose >move to<, then I select my ext. hard drive and I'm done!. Or you can just drag and drop!
I use voidtools.com's Everything for searching and drag&drop the results to TeraCopy to copy or move as it does checksums on the copied/moved files (check the verify option).
In Everything, you can sort by path so easier to recognize OS and program jpgs, Tiff's, etc. Wildcards also help to reduce search results to the ones you want. A must have program.
For duplicate checks, I use Heatsoft clone cleaner. I have the paid version which does multiple disks, but the free lite version will check a single drive and subfolders. I like the auto mark feature (specify a "keep" folder and dups in other folders automatically marked for deletion). Groups nicely delimited. Click on the full clones column for full dups.
So, find and copy files to destination HDD, then find and delete the clones on this destination drive (leave originals alone, HDD's cheap).
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