Useful Programs

[electile disfunction]

Originally Posted by slut-lover

I have w7 but I didn't try anything. You know, binaries and sourcecode are greek to me.

Here's the download page for gqview-win:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gqvi...w-win/2.1.4.1/

It seems like you just unzip the files into the directory of your choice and double-click the "gqview-win-2.1.4.1.exe" file when you want to run it.

e.d.

[yeastieboy]

Originally Posted by DTravel

Tin Eye might be what you're looking for: http://www.tineye.com/about

I haven't used it more than once or twice myself because it does not search image host services like ImageVenue, **********, ImageBam, etc. or links to such within UBB/VB based forums. From what I can tell it just looks at images HTML embedded in webpages.

If you try it, give us some feedback and let us know what you find please.

DT -- Thanks for the tip about tineye.com.

Somewhere on the net I spotted a picture of a pretty girl whose face was obscured.



I wanted to find out who she is and if the picture came from a photo set.

Using your tip, I discovered -- eventually -- that it was a photo of "Alexa," a teenage blonde model from FTV Girls.



To be clear, tineye.com did NOT direct me to the FTV site, but it DID show me the same single pic posted in various places so I still had to spend time clicking around to determine the original source.

Bottom line -- I'm sure I'll be using tineye again. Appreciate the tip.

[Jism Jim]

Tineye does indeed work. Here's an example of a find:



http://www.tineye.com/search/8b9f576...44e1fd355201a/

It hasn't helped me any further though.

[electile disfunction]

Here is a brief 'image similarities & duplicates' software research update:

Anti-Twin 1.8d (or 18d?) in Win Vista is useless for my purposes. I gave it only 12000 pics (about 4 GB) to check and after 11 hours it still hadn't finished its first run yet!
____

Also, I have tried all of the other programs that have been mentioned here that do not have new versions fully compatible with Vista. There is a lot of promise in them, but I have not been able to get them to run reliably in Vista.

I'll keep looking as time permits,
e.d.

[baldie]

For bulk renaming of files, very small and easy to use.

https://the-rename-program.software.....com/download/

Originally Posted by groovesection

I used to have a program which would find duplicates (based on exact byte size)
It was very good for finding duplicates Mp3`s so would easily be viable for pictures)
cannot remember what it was called though
I will ask a friend who also used to use it

Tried this ?

http://www.styopkin.com/duplicate_file_hunter.html

Works very well for me.

[hos]

if you're unhappy with imagegrabber ii because it misses any batch functionality, may this free tool is the one to fall in love with: Scenegrabber.

http://anonym.to/http://www.scenegrabber.net/

download the latest version and the FFmpeg addon (if you don't have it). install and place the FFmpeg addon into the installation folder. When you start the program, enable FFmpeg in AddOns menu.

batch processing works pretty easy, but before you use it on all your movies play a bit with the settings you can make to gain the desired layout. if you're familiar with settings and results of imagegrabber ii, you will be happy with that what scenegrabber offers. it's very similar and finally the processing speed is much better.

[TheBare]

This software is ANCIENT .. 2001 But I have been using FOR YEARS and IMO a rare find .. quick, allows you to DB as many images as you want [I'm sure there is a limit but I have not hit it yet] so next time you search the same images with added ones it is MUCH quicker .. Working fine with Vista .. Nag screen on startup .. No biggy .. Easy to use once you are familiar with it .. Can't say too many good things about it .. Will supply any configuration tips if you want to PM me .. Free .. Prolly discontinued updates but page is still active .. I don't recommend a lot of software but I could not do without this program .. I do have the install somewhere if you can't DL a copy
Highly recommended
http://www.uniquefiler.com/

[CaptainVirtue]

This may be of interest to some. 5 Ways To Find Duplicate Image Files On Windows PC. Five free programs are reviewed, with links to the home pages for each program. Just click on the separate headings to go to the home pages.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-...puter-windows/

[eek]

Got one yesterday - that was money well spent; no doubt in my mind about it.

Outstanding bootup times as well as starting up hungry apps such as Adobe Premiere Pro.

Here it is; intel's a solid product now however I've decided to buy one with the speedy SandForce controller. Highly recommended.

http://www.corsair.com/solid-state-d...0gb2-brkt.html

[TheBare]

Originally Posted by easyed

I've downloaded a whole bunch of movies to an external hard drive. Now the drive isn't working properly and I want to transfer the files to a different drive. I know the files are still there but I can't pull them up. Any good software out there that can help grab the files? I've always heard that once you download something it's going to never really go away.

The ONLY recovery software that I have ever had any luck with is Active undelete .. so impressed I actually paid $$ for it.. I believe about $50 .. This was years ago Slick!! ... Ran into issues again and of course my copy was no good anymore .. Went on a hunt and found a Portable app AU .. Works fine [as long as the HDD is at least spinning LOL] So here it is . Hope it helps .. As I say I tried at least a dozen recovery proggys b4 discovering this one .. Highly recommended

http://www.filesonic.com/file/70494969/AUP_7.0.3.3.rar