file generation in Finder - how to defeat ??

Hi all,

I'm a messy photographer that shoots RAW format most of the time. I
unload my CM card into whatever computer is closest at that minute (PC,
G4, iMac, G3), then use an app to convert from RAW to JPG or TIF as
needed. I have these CM card directories all over the place that
contain my RAW images, and I have other directories all over the place
with post-process files in them.

I got a new 24" iMac and a new 500GB disk to try and hold all of my
images so I can cut DVD's as backup. So, if I try to move all of my
image files to one drive I get 420GB of files - quite a few duplicates,
and a ton of processed files (same name, different extension). I
thought I would write an AppleScript to 1)move all image files to the
target drive, 2)identify all duplicates, and 3) remove JPGs if I have a
RAW file of the same name. Well, let's just say that I'm not having
too much luck with AppleSript, so I can do it manually. I've produced
lists of all of my image files (except from the images on the PC of
course) manually in a terminal session with a recursive find command.
But it will take months and months of work identifying the duplicates.

So - what I was thinking - just copy all of the image files (PC and
Mac) to the target directory and let the OS tell me when I have
dupes..... but OS X puts duplicate files out there by adding a
generation number to the file name..... I could do that and manually
delete duplicate files, but that would take much time also.

So, my question - is there a way to override the addition of
generation numbers when copying duplicate files to a directory ?? A
bit like the way Windows deos things - just copy all of the files I
want into the same directory and let the OS disregard the files that
are obvious dupes. It would make my life a whole lot easier if could
find a way to do this on my iMac instead of moving ALL of my image
files over to the PC to do this little bit of magic, then moving back
to the iMac.

Any suggestions, or ways to turn off the file generation additions in
the Finder. I can't find anything in Apple discussions.

Many thanks in advance, and I promise to get better organized with my
hundreds of Gigabytes of stock and customer images.....

Walt

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 20:28:07 -0800, Walt wrote
(in article ):

> Hi all,
>
> I'm a messy photographer that shoots RAW format most of the time. I
> unload my CM card into whatever computer is closest at that minute (PC,
> G4, iMac, G3), then use an app to convert from RAW to JPG or TIF as
> needed. I have these CM card directories all over the place that
> contain my RAW images, and I have other directories all over the place
> with post-process files in them.
>
> I got a new 24" iMac and a new 500GB disk to try and hold all of my
> images so I can cut DVD's as backup. So, if I try to move all of my
> image files to one drive I get 420GB of files - quite a few duplicates,
> and a ton of processed files (same name, different extension). I
> thought I would write an AppleScript to 1)move all image files to the
> target drive, 2)identify all duplicates, and 3) remove JPGs if I have a
> RAW file of the same name. Well, let's just say that I'm not having
> too much luck with AppleSript, so I can do it manually. I've produced
> lists of all of my image files (except from the images on the PC of
> course) manually in a terminal session with a recursive find command.
> But it will take months and months of work identifying the duplicates.
>
> So - what I was thinking - just copy all of the image files (PC and
> Mac) to the target directory and let the OS tell me when I have
> dupes..... but OS X puts duplicate files out there by adding a
> generation number to the file name..... I could do that and manually
> delete duplicate files, but that would take much time also.
>
> So, my question - is there a way to override the addition of
> generation numbers when copying duplicate files to a directory ?? A
> bit like the way Windows deos things - just copy all of the files I
> want into the same directory and let the OS disregard the files that
> are obvious dupes. It would make my life a whole lot easier if could
> find a way to do this on my iMac instead of moving ALL of my image
> files over to the PC to do this little bit of magic, then moving back
> to the iMac.
>
> Any suggestions, or ways to turn off the file generation additions in
> the Finder. I can't find anything in Apple discussions.
>
> Many thanks in advance, and I promise to get better organized with my
> hundreds of Gigabytes of stock and customer images.....
>
> Walt
>

iview media pro is reputed to do this. Their website offers a free trial
download.

http://www.iview-multimedia.com/downloads/index.php?p=a

StephenC