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Title: Looking for a file sorter (snapshots)
Post by: neliö on September 25, 2008, 01:00:32 pm

I recently downloaded a zip file containing a lot of mame snaps. Now I need a program to sort out the extra snaps I won't be needing. Leaving all of them in the folder slows Gamelauncher too much.

Any suggestions for a program that checks 2 folders (roms&snap) and deletes those that do not have a match?

Title: Re: Looking for a file sorter (snapshots)
Post by: NOP on September 25, 2008, 03:06:32 pm

fuzzyrename would do it:

http://www.waste.org/~winkles/fuzzyRename

it'll rename the snaps that don't quite match the rom names too.
The snaps just get copied to another folder, so it doesn't wreck anything if it goes wrong.

edit:
otherwise, richiethebritt was building an application specificaly for this task.  called like rombuddy or something...  search in this forum for it.

Title: Re: Looking for a file sorter (snapshots)
Post by: NOP on September 26, 2008, 10:08:21 am

Here's another way, if you're ok with poking around in DOS mode.

0) download this program, unzip it somewhere in your path
http://www.waste.org/~winkles/fuzzyRename/insert.zip

1) in a DOS shell in your ROMs folder, type this:

"dir /b > moveme.bat"

2) edit moveme.bat, do a search/replace of ".zip" with ".png c:\mame\snap", save and quit.  [you may have to edit that path of where you really want your snaps to end up]

3) now type:
insert

at the prompts, type in "moveme.bat" for the filename
for the col#, put in 0
for the text string put in: "move "  [note the space at the end!]

insert.exe will then jam some text into the front of each line of your batch file, so the end result should look like this:

move 005.png c:\mame\snap
move eggor.png c:\mame\snap
etc
etc
etc
etc

4) run that batch file in the folder you've got your full collection of snaps in, and it'll move 'em all.

hurray for DOS!

Title: Re: Looking for a file sorter (snapshots)
Post by: Martijn on September 30, 2008, 08:13:27 am

Quote from: NOP on September 25, 2008, 03:06:32 pm

fuzzyrename would do it:

http://www.waste.org/~winkles/fuzzyRename

it'll rename the snaps that don't quite match the rom names too.
The snaps just get copied to another folder, so it doesn't wreck anything if it goes wrong.

edit:
otherwise, richiethebritt was building an application specificaly for this task.  called like rombuddy or something...  search in this forum for it.

Perfect! just what i needed  :notworthy: