Comments on: Moving Files With Vista is Awesome

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:39:00 +0000

Wow, Anon. Who crapped in your lunchbox today?

By: Glen

Glen — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:40:00 +0000

I have an old image viewer (ACDSee version 3.1 – maybe 10 years old) that has this functionality (displays both images with overwrite/rename choices if a conflict is detected during a move/copy). Don’t know whether current versions of the application still have it – it was/is a very nice feature.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 16:34:00 +0000

Thats it?!? A nice ‘move files’ requester is the reason you are giving here to stop bashing on Vista?!? Hey you ever thought about using sub-directories to store your photos based on event or point-in-time? Are you aware that this requester comes from an *application*, not the operating system itself – its the windows file manager, ‘explorer’. The factors that govern whether or not an operating system is ‘awesome’ are both complicated and diverse. This isnt one of them.

By: windowsobserver

windowsobserver — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:47:00 +0000

Thomas – great enthusiastic post about Vista and this feature for the copy/move process.

I could not agree more about how good it is as I have used it to manage my music library and it ensures I do not lose anything from the various directories I have music in.

By: Darin

Darin — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:45:00 +0000

Interesting. I personally put all my images in iPhoto on my PowerBook rather than organizing them all manually myself. It doesn’t seem to mind if there are multiple files with the same name; I think it organizes them by date in sub folders or something like that. I pull my best out into a portfolio of sorts and a background photo folder, but that’s about it.

However I have nothing near the volume of photos that you do, so it’s probably a whole different ball game.

By: antman

antman — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:49:00 +0000

Hey Thomas,

I’m curious about how you use your Drobos. They aren’t NAS drives as I understand it — just direct USB 2.0 direct attach drives. Do you just attach them directly to your machine, or do you plug them into a router that has USB support to make them shared across multiple machines? I’m currently looking to have some kind of shared ethernet drive for my photos so that other computers in the household can access them at the same time.

By: TravisPUK

TravisPUK — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:35:00 +0000

Thomas,

Not sure if you have seen Microsoft’s SyncToy (Beta 2.0). It is used for syncing files from location to location. I have read that it will do this type of copying automatically and detect that the images are not the same shot, even though they might have the same name… and dates etc. I use it for backing up my pics and music to an external drive that is scheduled at night, but cannot confirm that the image replacement explained above works as written though as I have not properly tested that side of it. Works very well for backing up though.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:27:00 +0000

Thomas,

How do you decide the names you give to your photographs?

By: dssstrkl

dssstrkl — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:53:00 +0000

That’s one thing about OSX that bugs me too. If you download files using a browser that have the same name, OS X will add “-1, -2, etc” to the file name, but if you use the file browser, it will try to replace it! Why???