[plug] Archiving / copying photos

[William Kenworthy]

Used to do this years ago - not sure if this will work or there is
something better these days but using EoG with a macro might do what you
want?

https://www.linuxuprising.com/2020/03/how-to-record-and-play-mouse-and.html

BillK

On 10/6/21 5:25 pm, Benjamin wrote:
> I'd ingest everything as one DD image and then handle the rest later.
> Accessing a bunch of files could be more stressful.
>
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2021, 15:48 Brad Campbell, <brad at fnarfbargle.com
> <mailto:brad at fnarfbargle.com>> wrote:
>
>     G'day all,
>
>     I'm currently grappling with the death of a family member. Given
>     everyone has one or more devices these days that take pics/vids
>     I'm looking for a method to pick and copy the relevant images.
>
>     My ideal would be something like EoG or Viewnoir with the ability
>     to set a destination path and a hot key that just "copies that
>     one". That way I could scroll through a directory and just belt a
>     key to copy the pic that's on the screen "right now".
>
>     The best way I've found thus far is to copy the entire directory
>     then scroll through and delete the ones I don't want, which is
>     looking at it arse about and takes a *long* time.
>
>     Does anyone have any suggestions for software (OS agnostic, I'll
>     install or get anything) as I've probably got the best part of 50k
>     images to root through.
>
>     Regards,
>     Brad
>     -- 
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