Re: OT: In defense of a GUI (was: atapicam, blah, blah)

On Fri, 25 May 2007 22:02:13 +0200
Roland Smith <rsmith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 09:46:35AM -1000, Robert Marella wrote:
On Fri, 25 May 2007 18:30:00 +0200 (CEST)
Oliver Fromme <olli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



By the way, I am _not_ using k3b or any other krap. ;-)

Best regards
Oliver

What is Krap to one can be Komfort to another. ;-)

I assist a photographer fiend by maintaining her computers, network
and doing backups. Being a photographer in Hawaii means she shoots
about 200 weddings a year.

A typical month will run from 80GB to over 200GB depending upon the
time of year and other factors. After about 3 months I will archive
the projects to DVD. I make two copies of each DVD so that they can
be kept in different locations. Some weddings and other projects
will be 20GB or more. Trying to divide these projects over the
fewest number of DVDs is quite easy with K3B because I can add or
subtract individual files as needed to fill the DVD to the maximum.

If someone knows an easy way to do this on the command line I would
be more than willing to try it.

dirsplit (http://freshmeat.net/projects/dirsplit/) will do the trick
nicely.

Roland

Roland

Thanks for the reply. Mea culpa, I failed to mention that the
individual file cannot be spread over different media. After archiving
to DVD I than catalog the photos on a Windows machine using Portfolio.

My photographer will get calls years later from brides wanting a
certain picture or two. Using Portfolio she can call up the picture and
it will request the specific DVD be installed.

I am archiving photos that are in .jpg, .dng (digital negative), .crw
(canon raw), etc. Some of the .dng files are 26MB each and the .jpg are
between 5 and 8MB each. I guess the brides like the details (bigger
must be better) ;-)

I did google dirsplit and I did not see if you are able to maintain
file integrity.

As I said earlier, K3B is a very good tool for my purposes.

Thanks
Robert
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