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al35mm
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September 16, 2017
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Managing years of content - best method.

  • September 16, 2017
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Hi peeps, so here's my problem. I have about 10TB of content - images, video etc spanning years - of content. I know that some of the content is duplicated with slight variations because I have had multiple backups going on. In other words, my backups have been disorderly. At the moment I am trying to use win 10 to navigate and manage my store of content. I would like to know, does Bridge have the tools I need, or is there something else I need to use in order to manage my content?

Most of my images and video are off mobile phones, but I have various different cameras and video cams worth of content at different resolutions and bit rates. Also CGI animations and video productions. I'm now trying to organise this stuff so that it makes sense. What is the best tool for this? I also have to add that I am at a point where this 10TB of data is currently a complete mess so I need some method to organize it into something that is not such a mess.

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Stephen Marsh
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Stephen MarshCommunity Expert
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September 19, 2017

I would suggest either a Bridge script or ExifTool to perform the initial heavy lifting, then refine with Bridge.

It would depend on how you wish to file and categorise your assets.

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al35mmAuthor
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September 20, 2017

Hi thanks. I had Bridge when it first came out in CS. It never seemed to do a lot for me. I just spent the last few days manually going through all my assets to categorize them in meaningful ways while trying not to duplicate anything. Deleting the (hopefully) old, redundant directories is the scariest part! I am still several layers away from getting the structure I want. I used to think that Bridge was the intended tool for such a task, but having actually played with it, it seems pretty useless. Maybe ok for light work. I got it to freeze a few times. There really should be an app for this. Especially for identifying and removing true duplicates (regardless of name). Maybe I am overlooking something.

Stephen Marsh
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Stephen MarshCommunity Expert
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September 20, 2017
There really should be an app for this. Especially for identifying and removing true duplicates (regardless of name). Maybe I am overlooking something.

It’s called Google! :]

There are many tools out there for de-duping files based on file content or other markers.

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