In Reply to: RE:results of inventory posted by rivervalley817 on October 4, 2020 at 21:22:11:
all drives I have inventoried so far are local. Windows 10 machine.
The idea is to have an automated method to copy a single physical version of all music files found on all the drives (so no duplicates) into one drive and folder. I don't want to do it manually, has to be automated.
Then I will use a "dedicated" music file organizer program - that uses the metadata tags embedded in the files (genre, artist, album) - to physically reorganize that single massive master folder of music files into a music based folder hierarcy.
That should solve my problem- assuming all the music files have good metadata.
I have the inventory in the database now, and I have the SQL queries to get the path to every physical unduplicated music file no matter which drive they currently live on.
So just have to write the powershell now to use that query to physically populate the master folder. Using powershell code I can eiher "move" or copy the files into the new master folder. It will be automated, no manual work. And safer to copy the files obviously rather than move.
According to my queries the deduped files should total about 1.4 TB. - about 80,000 deduped music files.
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