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December 5, 2018
Stockton Project
I'm trying to find all of my photos from when I was in Stockton.
I think I was in Stockton on the following dates:
2011\12\6 - 2011\12\13
2011\12\16 - 2011\12\23
2011\12\24 - Mississippi
But it's difficult because my photos aren't organized as well as they should be.
The photos should be at the following location, in theory:
s:\_2011\_11
s:\_2011\_12
But these folders don't exist. So, instead I have to sort of root around on the other drives to see if I can find the photos from those dates.
Now, I'm searching the W drive for .jpg files where the photo date taken is from 12/6/2011 - 12/23/2011.
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W:\My Pictures\_2011\12\December
W:\My Pictures\_2011\2011\12 (these photos are dated 2011/12/23).
W:\My Pictures\_2011\2011\12
not this one: W:\My Pictures\_2011\11\111121-192746_73605.jpg thru
I found my client list at w:\goinglive.
OK. Searching the w:\ drive for for .jpg files where the photo datetaken is from 12/6/2011 - 12/23/2011. [*.jpg datetaken:12/6/2011 .. 12/23/2011]
Here's what I see:
W:\My Pictures\_2012\01\best
W:\My Pictures\_2012\01\iPhone
W:\My Pictures\_2012\02\iphone
W:\My Pictures\_2012\iPad
Most of these were shot with an iPhone 4s. I think 3 of them were taken with a Canon EOS 50D.
OK. Here we go...Canon EOS 20D photos are located at:
W:\My Pictures\_2011\from desktop\2011\620CANON (datetaken is 12/23/2011).
W:\My Pictures\_2011\iPhone
W:\My Pictures\_2011\12\December (some of these pictures are Jen/Hannah in NYC: date taken = 12\16\2011)
OK. Here's some more. Canon EOS 50D. And the file naming looks good on these. These are the best so far that I've found of the Stockton photos.
W:\My Pictures\_2011\2011\111223-125936_76834.jpg (etc).
Yes. Jackpot. This is exactly what I wanted. Now, I look at 2012 photos.
W:\My Pictures\_2012\01\
Score!
So, one of the main reasons I did this search is so that I could determine which directories were hiding my photos from this era. Like, normally, I expect to see all of my photos on the S:\ drive under a folder of the current year, like say:
s:\_2011
But that folder doesn't exist for whatever reason. So, instead, I'm sort of kicking around on the W drive looking for photos. And, make no mistake, the W:\ drive is a mess. So, maybe once I find what I'm looking for, I'll move it over to the S:\ drive and create S:\_2011.
I'm going to start looking at W:\My Pictures\_2012
W:\My Pictures\_2012\01 So, now that I see my photos from 2012, I see that I was, in fact, in SF on 1/1/2012. Interesting. Looks like I was only there two days. 12/01/01 - 12/01/02.
OK. So, I've got to consolidate these photos or I'll lose my mind. My general approach is going to be to move photos from the W drive to the S drive. So, we'll start like this:
Moving from:
W:\My Pictures\_2011\*.* to S:\_2011 (116,000 items 316 gig). About 1 day remaining.
OK. The move failed, for whatever reason. So, I created a shorcut to it.
So, s:\_2011 has a shortcut to W:\My Pictures\_2011.
Posted by Rob Kiser on December 5, 2018 at 1:01 AM
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