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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Automagic Digital Photo Manager
« on: October 27, 2018, 04:23 PM »
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#region gui events {
$Button1.Add_Click({
  $objForm = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.FolderBrowserDialog
  $objForm.Description = "Destination folder"
  $objForm.SelectedPath = [System.Environment+SpecialFolder]'MyComputer'
  $objForm.ShowNewFolderButton = $false
  $result = $objForm.ShowDialog()
  if ($result -eq "OK") {
    $TextBox1.Text = $objForm.SelectedPath
  } else {
    $TextBox1.Text = ""
  }
})
-4wd (October 23, 2018, 05:36 PM)

Just one quick question: if I wanted to modify this bit to a specific root destination folder (eg c:\users\fred\pictures\photos) would I just change this line

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$objForm.SelectedPath = [System.Environment+SpecialFolder]'MyComputer'

or is it more complicated than that? (I really want to make it as simple as I can for him!)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Automagic Digital Photo Manager
« on: October 27, 2018, 12:53 AM »
Something simple in PowerShell while skwire whips up a masterpiece :P : DCIMover.ps1
-4wd (October 23, 2018, 05:36 PM)
That's awesome, thanks!

I won't be able to get access to their PC again for a few days but I gave them a USBsafelyRemove license I no longer need to handle the autoplay side of things and between the two, it should be perfect -- thanks again!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Automagic Digital Photo Manager
« on: October 22, 2018, 02:09 AM »
The review: yes to all.

Does the SD card show up as a drive letter?
-skwire (October 21, 2018, 03:43 PM)
Yes, again.

I can probably ensure that the drive letter always comes up the same, but I guess you could also look for available drives with \dcim folders in the root and present them (or, hopefully always!) it as a confirmation for the source.

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Automagic Digital Photo Manager
« on: October 21, 2018, 03:28 PM »
My father-in-law wants to be able to clear the photos off the SD card from his camera onto his PC so he can (a) free up space on the card, and (b) review and delete any photos he doesn't want to keep.

He has next to no idea of file management. The computer is for eBay and a few games.

So what I thought was some sort of semi-automated process. Identify a base target folder (possibly stored for later use in a config file), make a subfolder of the current year (if it doesn't already exist) and a subfolder of that for the current month.

Identify the source drive; assume \DCIM as the base folder for the photos.

Then copy all the JPGs from \dcim\ and any subfolders it might have into the newly-created yyyy/mmmm target folder, but ignore source target structure. (His camera makes subfolders for month or day but trying to create and then navigate the destination if it's too granular seems overkill, and dating the destination for now won't prevent later organisation based on the file data or EXIF stuff, I figure.)

Then fire up Explorer, or Photos, or Windows Photo Viewer, pointed at the destination.

Then reviewing the photos should at least mean accidental deletions wind up in the recycle bin...

This sounds straightforward but I keep getting tied in knots trying to work out how to solve it myself -- I guess I'm getting old :(

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: GS-Base Mini-Review
« on: June 05, 2018, 05:42 PM »
From GS-Base's Help:

Creating links between two tables is a special case of using calculated fields and the vLookUp_ex function from the Cross-table summarizing & lookup formula category. It behaves similarly to the standard spreadsheet vLookUp.

I haven't used it much for a while, but I still think it's a very decent program.

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