Deleting RAW & jpeg files

Hi

Does anyone have a neat way of deleting the jpeg files in a folder when the
RAW files have been deleted. Doing it by hand seems a pain. Am I missing a
trick here?
TIA

Tim
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"Tim" no wrote in message
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Hi

Does anyone have a neat way of deleting the jpeg files in a folder when
the RAW files have been deleted. Doing it by hand seems a pain. Am I
missing a trick here?
TIA

Tim
--
http://www.timdenning.myby.co.uk/


Assuming you are running a Windows computer, I would do it from DOS.

from the directory in question, something like delete *.jpg and again for
the raw file, delete *.nef

I find there are many times that DOS does the job where Windoze does not
quite do it.

Can you not just highlight them all and click on delete?

Geoff.

"Tim" no wrote in message
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Hi

Does anyone have a neat way of deleting the jpeg files in a folder when
the RAW files have been deleted. Doing it by hand seems a pain. Am I
missing a trick here?
TIA

Tim
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http://www.timdenning.myby.co.uk/

Can you not just highlight them all and click on delete?

Geoff.




Sorry, maybe I should have been a little more detailed

I use a Nikon D70s and shoot RAW + Jpeg what I'm looking for is an image
viewer or software that will allow me to ideally automatically delete the
RAW files when I delete the corresponding jpeg files. I have loads of
pictures to go through and decide if they're keepers or rubbish (yes I've
been lazy!) and am looking for something to make the process easier



I've been looking round and have just had a play with FastStone Image Viewer
which at least shows RAW and jpeg files in the same viewer which is a help



Anyone here have any hints on working with RAW + Jpeg? I'm tempted sometimes
to just delete all the jpeg files when I transfer the images but they are
handy for a quick resize and email to friends - Hmmmm sounds like me being
lazy again :-(



I am right in thinking the D70 won't shoot just RAW files aren't I?



Thanks for any help



Tim
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http://www.timdenning.myby.co.uk/

"Geoff. Hayward" wrote in message
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Can you not just highlight them all and click on delete?

Geoff.

"Tim" no wrote in message
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Hi

Does anyone have a neat way of deleting the jpeg files in a folder when
the RAW files have been deleted. Doing it by hand seems a pain. Am I
missing a trick here?
TIA

Tim
--
http://www.timdenning.myby.co.uk/


Hi.

Control-A would select all the files in the folder. Hitting the Delete key
would then delete them.
Assuming you are using Windows Explorer then you can click on the column
heading to put the list into a sequence determined by the info in that
column.
E.G. - click on the DATE column and you'll see the file list sequenced by
date. Click on Type and you'll get the file list sequenced by file type -
all the JPG files will be together and all the RAW files will be together.

Oh - if you want to select several files and they are adjacent to each other
then simply click on the first file, go down to the final file and hold the
Control key as you click on that file. This shoulg highlight all the files
inbetween (and including) the two you clicked on.

Hope this helps and apologies if I've misunderstood your question.

Regards, Ian.

In article , Tim
wrote:

Hi

Does anyone have a neat way of deleting the jpeg files in a folder when the
RAW files have been deleted. Doing it by hand seems a pain. Am I missing a
trick here?
TIA


Sort by file type, then do a range select.


Sheesh.

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reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating
the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for
independence.
-- Charles A. Beard

"Tim" no writes:
I am right in thinking the D70 won't shoot just RAW files aren't I?

The D70 does have a setting to shoot RAW without JPEG, if that's what
you're asking.

"Tim" no writes:
I am right in thinking the D70 won't shoot just RAW files aren't I?

The D70 does have a setting to shoot RAW without JPEG, if that's what
you're asking.

OMG I'm an idiot :-(

I just looked and it's right there at the top!
I just assumed that if it was there it would be lower down the menu....

Thanks for your help

Tim
--
http://www.timdenning.myby.co.uk/

"Tim" no wrote:
Can you not just highlight them all and click on delete?

Geoff.


Sorry, maybe I should have been a little more detailed

I use a Nikon D70s and shoot RAW + Jpeg what I'm looking for is an image
viewer or software that will allow me to ideally automatically delete the
RAW files when I delete the corresponding jpeg files. I have loads of
pictures to go through and decide if they're keepers or rubbish (yes I've
been lazy!) and am looking for something to make the process easier

I've been looking round and have just had a play with FastStone Image Viewer
which at least shows RAW and jpeg files in the same viewer which is a help

Anyone here have any hints on working with RAW + Jpeg? I'm tempted sometimes
to just delete all the jpeg files when I transfer the images but they are
handy for a quick resize and email to friends - Hmmmm sounds like me being
lazy again :-(

I am right in thinking the D70 won't shoot just RAW files aren't I?

You wouldn't want to do that anyway, as the RAW+JPEG has some
advantages.

When I first read your original article I wrote up a
response... but then decided you didn't need a cheering session,
and since that is actually just about all I can provide, I
deleted it instead of posting.

However, it appears that nobody understands what you want to do
or why; hence, perhaps if I describe what I do it actually will
be useful. I use Linux though, so none of this can be directly
implemented on a Windows system. I'm sure that someone familiar
with Windows can describe how to implement the same process.

I shoot RAW+JPEG, and commonly download from a CF card by
executing one shell function from a command line and then use a
couple of other commands. The shell function mounts the CF card
as a filesystem at /mnt. The whole sequence looks like this:

m1 # Mount CF card
mv /mnt/*/*/*jpg . # move JPEG files to current directory

Without waiting for that command to finish, this command is typed
in:

mv /mnt/*/*/* # move NEF files to current directory

The details of the function named m1 are not important, but the
fact that it is predefined and all done with a single command
is.

If I were a slow typist I'd probably put the whole thing into
one single shell script, and typing "m1" would do everything.
(I am not a fan of icons, but of course that could all be
associated with an icon, and invoked by the click of a mouse
button.)

The sequence is significant, as moving the jpg files is quick
but moving the huge nef files takes a long time. As soon as
those commands are typed in I can use a different window to
start previewing the JPEG files while the rest of the files are
still downloading.

I use a program named /xv/ to preview images. Originally this
program had a "delete" button, but in later (patched) versions
it is a "reject" button. It first creates a directory named
/rejected/, unless it already exists, and then moves the image
file to that directory.

Hence, assuming no mistakes, after looking at all of the JPEG
files I will have rejected all unwanted images and skipped over
all the desired images. At that point a shell script I wrote
and installed for system wide use is executed. It's name is
"reject_nef". It looks at every *.nef file in the current
directory, and then checks for a matching *.jpg, *.ppm, or
*.tiff file. If none are found, it moves the NEF file to the
rejected directory (which it will create if necessary).

At that point it is easy to either just delete the entire
"rejected" directory, or to go review everything in it to make
sure, and then zap them all.

That permits just about as fast and as efficient a workflow as
is possible. I'm already looking a JPEG files by the time the
NEF files begin to download; and long before all of the NEF
files have been acquired I can be using UFRAW and The GIMP to
convert and edit files.

This type of multitasking is not suited for a machine with slow
response time though, but I've been using dual cpu systems since
the late 1990's, and find that it is *really* great for editing
images. In fact, the way that I monitor progress on downloading
from the CF card is to watch an eye candy item that shows the
system load average; which of course goes way up while the
transfers are in progress and then drops down when it is
finished. And that again is possible because of hardware
intended to make life easy: I use two LCD displays, so I can
edit images on the left monitor and see all the system status
indicators and my notepad on the right monitor.

--
Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)

Paul Rubin wrote:
"Tim" no writes:
I am right in thinking the D70 won't shoot just RAW files aren't I?

The D70 does have a setting to shoot RAW without JPEG, if that's what
you're asking.

And your question points out again: why shoot both? Now that you know
you can shoot just RAW, or just JPEG, you've learned something, and the
other answers tell you how to get rid of the dud JPEGs.

--
John McWilliams