Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv — Message #63663
From: ML meassi <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Subject: Re: [AE] [OT] software to consolidate / clean up files
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 18:09:58 +0100
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
If you need to sync different project folders or merge project tree (from different workstn, user, backup, cloud, etc) I recommend Total Commander, cannot live without it.
I sync project with hundred of folders and million of files without any problem or slowdown.
Even on Mac folder via network.
You have many options from overwriting older files, ignoring date, binary comparison, copy to another path, etc.
Never found a task where I cannot use TC or it was too limited.
Same if you need to find dupes in the Search panel/window there's function to find duplicates.

If you need a tool to organize files (images, audio, footages, etc.) and clean duplicates with have a visual preview of those, i think Opus is better.
Find duplicates panel and search function are more complete than TC.

Total Commander to me is more powerful with a steep learning curve.
Opus seems more easy to use, but slower.

GL

Il 27/01/18 03:16, Chris Zwar ha scritto:
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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