Program to mirror and resize photo folder to another folder...

NeilF · 8 Apr 2009 at 20:21

Is there a program that can go thru an entire folder structure, and mirror all the photos in it to another folder structure, with the pictures all resized/made smaller?

ie: You have your master photo directory. You then want to run the program to resize them all in a mirror directory. So all the pictures in there are a fraction of the originals size. Ideally on subsequent runs, it would only bother converting new pictures, and remove ones for which the original no longer exists etc...

Make sense?

NeilF · 8 Apr 2009 at 21:13

But I assume:-
- It would convert all files again, not just the one or two new images?
- It wouldn't remove the 'mirrors' of images that have been deleted from the source/master folder?

NeilF · 9 Apr 2009 at 09:23

Here's the answer I believe - http://www.rw-designer.com/picture-resize

Seems to do everything, even check to see if the image already exists, apart from handle if an image is removed from the parent folder. I guess a separate DOS script could do that easily

NeilF · 9 Apr 2009 at 15:04

Toekiller said:
VSO resizer. Best free program ever!

Looks good! Possibly slightly easier to use than my find... (does the same job though

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EDIT: Bearing in mind most files it will be ignoring/skipping as they've already been converted (on a previous run). My program is VERY quick at skipping, where as VSO is quite slow. I suspect it's because it's loading every image in to display a thumbnail, even though it will end up doing nothing with it (if the destination file already exists). My program also has less clicks/options to run it. I just drag the source folder to the program shortcut. I also don't have a context option added. It can also have numerous different configurations (via shortcuts), whereas VSO can only store one.

If the outputs results (quality) are the same, I think mine wins...

NeilF · 10 Sep 2009 at 10:29

Sorry to bring this thread back from the dead... But just to put a useful footnote here.

So here is a script to mirror a SOURCE folder to a DESTINATION folder:-
a) Resizing all photos as specified
b) Only doing those that need to done (ie: only do new or modified photos)
c) Remove ones in the DESTINATION folder that no longer exist in the SOURCE folder

It sses Photo Resizer 4 and ROBOCOPY to achieve this. ROBOCOPY is only require to remove photos no longer in the SOURCE folder, that still exist in the DESTINATION folder.

Example is where:-
- source location is D:\Source
- destination is D:\Destination
- Photo Resizer executable is just located on the D drive

Code:

"D:\PhotoResize400.exe" -h1080 -q85 -u -r -m -o "-cD:\Destination\<PATH><NAME>.jpg" "D:\Source"
ROBOCOPY D:\Source D:\Destination /PURGE /S /xo

Obviously the size and quality of the resize is up to you and completely defined by the options on the photoresize call. http://www.rw-designer.com/photo-resizer-advanced

So this simple batch job, with just two lines in it, can do a quick, efficient mirror/resize of all your photos.

In my case I produce a resized mirror to view on my media player. A 4mb photo is reduced down to a couple of hundred K with no discernable difference n quality (on my TV screen), but is far far faster to move around/view...