I needed a simple program that finds all the images/videos on a memory card and organizes them in folders according to their creation date on my local HD, so I can go back and deal with them later. Nothing was available, so I made one; the result is imgcp.exe. After my day of shooting, I would stuff the SD card in the reader and issue the command:
imgcp -source E: -target C:\tmp
I end up with this directory structure:
C:\tmp
|
+-- 20011002-angola-fields (previously copied and tagged)
|
+-- 20011002 (just copied, more/dup Angola fields images)
| |
| +-- IMG_0023.JPG
| +-- VID_202.AVI
| +-- ...
+-- 20011003 (next day stuff)
I ran into the problem of having duplicate images (especially having more than one camera), so I wrote a companion program imgdedup.exe to fix this.
imgdedup -target C:\tmp
Download the latest executables from https://github.com/pham/imgcp/releases.
imgcp.exe organizes media files from memory card to HD into YYYYMMDD directories based on the files' creation dates.
I made this program to simplify the process of find media files nested somewhere on a memory card and copy them to a staging folder according to their creation date on my local HD so that I can process them later.
imgcp -source <drive> -target <dir> [-auto] [-test] [-ex <extension-list>]
| Switches | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| -source | Source drive (e.g. memory card) | D: |
| -target | Destination folder | C:\tmp |
| -ex | Extensions to ignore | -ex xml,html,bin |
| -auto | Start copying immediately | |
| -test | Don't copy anything just report |
imgdedup.exe is a cleanup utility that removes files that have the same names but reside in different subdirectories.
This program is useful if you have large projects where you've copied and organized files on your local drive into their subdirectories then take more pictures but can't remember if you've removed the copied files from the card.
imgdedup -target <dir> [-test]
To enable right-click on an external drive and copy its contents to a designated folder, you need to edit your registry.
Execute the provided install.bat (provided that you already downloaded the executables); it copies the *.exe to your Windows directory and adds the registry entries for you.
Alternatively you can manually edit the registry by launching regedit and add the following values at these locations:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\Copy Images\command]
%%WINDIR%%\\imgcp.exe -source %%1 -target C:\\tmp -auto -ex ind,inp,bin,bdm,cpi,dat,mpl,thm,pod,xml,bnp,int
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\Dedup Images\command]
%%WINDIR%%\\imgdedup.exe -target %%1
imgcp.exe and imgdedup.exe are built using ActiveState ActivePerl.
These source files have been built and tested using:
- ActivePerl v5.16 (64-bit)
- ActiveState PDK v9.5.1 (64-bit)
Use the Perl Package Manager (PPM) to download these packages:
Tk, Tk-Button, Tk-Photo, Tk-ProgressBar, Tk-Toplevel, Tk-Frame, Tk-Label,
File-Copy, File-Path, Win32-DriveInfo.
There might be some I'm missing, but PerlApp gives more details when you build.
Inside perlapp folder are build files for PerlApp. Open these up and hit Make Executable.
The make.bat file takes 2 arguments:
make imgcp 1.7
make imgdedup 1.2
You can also change icons for the executables by making SVG files.
See icons folder, for example.
Building the icons locally, you need the tools detailed below.
Alternatively, you can find online resources to help make the *.ico files.
You'll need these tools to make icons:
- ImageMagick to convert PNGs to multiple sizes ICO files (and GIF for app icon)
- Inkscape to convert SVG to PNG
- OpenSSL to encode GIF to Base64
To make the imgcp.ico files use:
svg2ico.bat imgcp.svg
makeb64.bat creates a Base64 string of a 32x32 pixel GIF image for the Windows app icon.
To use this program, create a file similar to logo.svg and run the command:
makeb64 logo.svg
A file called logo.b64 is created. Copy this string and edit lib/BasicWindow.pm replace the content from 11 to the line with a . by itself.