From: "Evan Fotis Georgoulakis" Received: from [83.235.69.32] (HELO chimaera.otenet.gr) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.1.0) with ESMTPS id 6394888 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Sat, 27 Jan 2018 11:25:21 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (ppp-2-84-182-53.home.otenet.gr [2.84.182.53]) by chimaera.otenet.gr (ESMTP) with ESMTPSA for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2018 12:28:09 +0200 (EET) Subject: Re: [AE] [OT] software to consolidate / clean up files To: After Effects Mail List References: Message-ID: <227efe34-d7ba-924a-3480-8b70959bdef0@otenet.gr> Disposition-Notification-To: Evan Fotis Georgoulakis Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 12:28:09 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080914 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.17 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------60DFB5A34A77697122DBDDC4" Content-Language: en-US This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------60DFB5A34A77697122DBDDC4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I discovered Directory Opus many years ago, and just can't live without it. So many levels of customization, dual panes, linked tabs, etc. One very useful feature is the flat view, which shows all files together even ones in sub-folders, with their location. It is easy to find something hidden in sub-folder, duplicates etc. It also has a sync feature, but it is not that robust imho. On 27-Jan-18 04:37, Teddy Gage wrote: > Have you tried Directory Opus? I swear by it as a replacement for > explorer, has a ton of great features, I believe this is one of them > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 9:17 PM Chris Zwar

> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Looking for recommendations for file management software, the sort > of thing that can scan a drive / folder and find duplicates etc. > It sounds so simple and there seem to be 1000 apps out there that > claim to do it, but our IT guy said he’d tried several and none of > them were good enough to recommend. > > Main purpose is to try and organise / optimise projects before > they are archived. In some cases, mostly when we outsource to 3rd > parties but also when a project is started in the office but then > completed on-site, we can end up with 3 or 4 project folders with > varying degrees of duplicate files. Sometimes projects can be > terabytes in size. > > The idea is to copy everything to a single folder for archiving > and avoid duplicates, but also ensure we aren’t overwriting newer > versions of files with older versions. > > So obviously it’s easy to google for this and there’s no shortage > of apps out there that CLAIM to do it, but can anyone recommend > one that’s good? > > -Chris > > (PS- looking for both Mac and Windows recommednations) > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to

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I discovered Directory Opus many years ago, and just can't live without it. So many levels of customization, dual panes, linked tabs, etc. One very useful feature is the flat view, which shows all files together even ones in sub-folders, with their location. It is easy to find something hidden in sub-folder, duplicates etc. It also has a sync feature, but it is not that robust imho.

On 27-Jan-18 04:37, Teddy Gage wrote:

Have you tried Directory Opus? I swear by it as a replacement for explorer, has a ton of great features, I believe this is one of them

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 9:17 PM Chris Zwar <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

Hi all,

Looking for recommendations for file management software, the sort of thing that can scan a drive / folder and find duplicates etc.
It sounds so simple and there seem to be 1000 apps out there that claim to do it, but our IT guy said he’d tried several and none of them were good enough to recommend.

Main purpose is to try and organise / optimise projects before they are archived. In some cases, mostly when we outsource to 3rd parties but also when a project is started in the office but then completed on-site, we can end up with 3 or 4 project folders with varying degrees of duplicate files. Sometimes projects can be terabytes in size.

The idea is to copy everything to a single folder for archiving and avoid duplicates, but also ensure we aren’t overwriting newer versions of files with older versions.

So obviously it’s easy to google for this and there’s no shortage of apps out there that CLAIM to do it, but can anyone recommend one that’s good?

-Chris

(PS- looking for both Mac and Windows recommednations)
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