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Communication of text and files over LAN; Most efficient photo backup
In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Wed, 30 Aug 2017 23:40:37
-0400, micky wrote: 1) I've been back since June 1 and I'm finally making progress finishing up the computer aspects, mostly photographic aspects, of my trip. The XP netbook which was okay to work with on the trip seems so small now, so I've been doing things on the win10 with the big monitor. Is there an easy way other than a flashdrive to pass small amounts of text, etc. back and forth when both are on the same wifi network (that's a LAN, right?)** 2) OTOH, I have to copy all the photos from the old netbook to both the desktop computer and the new win7 laptop, about 16GB, and I'm figuring the best way is to put them all on a new 32 or 64GB flashdrive, and copy from that to the two other computers. Do you agree? Then I'll have a copy on each of 3 computers, on the flashdrive, on the camera, and once I back up the desktop and the new laptop, that would make 7 copies. Is that too many? I don't have to backup the photo part of the laptop. **(FWIW and just FYI, during my long trip, I had noticed 3 weeks after I arrived that the date in the camera was 2 years and 4 months early! I found the free program exiftool, which will change all dates (of some The big problem I had with this was that I ignored one line of the instructions. It said for windows to put double quotes around the parms, even though all the examples used single quotes, maybe for linux. So of course I used single quotes and got strange messages. I also found BulkFileChanger by Nirsoft which was easier to use for systemfile dates because it has a gui. Though it took 5 passes, years, months, days, hours, minutes. It will copy from exif dates but not to them. It does some other things too, like run the same program for every selected file. Etc. And then an exiftool command to copy the modify date to all the exif dates. For completeness, but I may never see them. or all categories) in a directory at the same time, so I'm going to add my estimated number of years, months, days, hours, minutes to everything that was in the camera at that time, then I'll put the second half of these photos (the first 3 weeks of the trip) in its own directory and add the time change difference. Then it's conceivable after I look at the pictures I'll be able to refine the day or time and change one or both directories a bit. I've got it down to within a one hour period, during which my friends bought vegetables, and just maybe I can find a landmark in time in one of the pictures that will be more specific. After all this I can start picking the best pictures of the trip to go on Instagram or Flickr, something I've never done before. P.S. I also found online a newer version of Fujifilm FinePixViewer***, which came with the previous camera, but only worked with XP, and it turns out it's free for everyone, not just those who bought the camera. IIRC, I liked it better than Irfanview, but maybe I'm mixed up. I also found FinePix Editor which was 4 times as big. I haven't got enough artistic talent to edit a No Parking sign, but I installed it anyhow, before I found the viewer. Maybe it does both. ***I first found a 3rd party site with this program, and it said it worked all the way up to win10. I installed it and it didnt' work or didn't even completely install. Then I found it on the Fujifilm site, dl'd it, very same length, and that one said only win8, but it installed and works on win10! Go figure. ) It took me until tonight to correct the dates on 450 photos where I was off by 2 years and 4 months. But that's done now, and tomorrow I'll start copying the photos from the laptop to the desktop and the new laptop. Thanks for all the good advice. |
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