How to get rid of bad chrs?

[rikona]

On Wed, 4 Aug 2021 13:28:52 -0400
Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey there,
> 
> rikona wrote:
> >Little Girl wrote:  
> 
> >> Actually, no matter how many you have, it's always safer to do
> >> them manually. In fact, with 2,000 folders, I wouldn't dare run a
> >> command on them to allow it to climb inside of all of them and do
> >> its thing.  
> 
> >As I'm learning more and more about the many potential problems, I'm
> >about at the same point. Manual is looking better and better...  
> 
> It seems to be your best bet. Also, you can do it in bits and pieces
> unless you're in a hurry to get it done. I'd do a few photos, set it
> aside, and then come back. It took me several weeks to get them all
> the way I wanted them to be, but it was never overwhelming since I
> did it in nibbles.

Yep - It'll give me something to do in my (nonexistant) spare time. :-)

> >> Normally, I'd recommend FSlint for this job, but they didn't update
> >> it to work with Python 3, so it's no longer available in the
> >> current Ubuntu releases. That's a shame.  
> 
> >Totally agree - FSlint was a GREAT pgm!! Used it a lot. Still hoping
> >someone will update it. Have not found a good replacement.  
> 
> I do, too and I haven't, either. If you do, please post a message
> about it in this mailing list.
> 
> >Re multiple photos, check out Geeqie - it also has a dup finder that
> >looks much nicer and seems more reliable than FSlint. Seems to have a
> >better dup photo algorithm.  
> 
> Thanks. I've noted it in case I need it again. For the moment, I'm
> being good and not creating duplicates. It was years of bad practices
> that I had had to clean up in the past.

I don't see Geeqie as a general purpose dup finder - I see it as
something that has a very good dup PHOTO finder, and only use it for
pix.

> >> If you're still looking for a command to recursively renaforme
> >> select files, there are a number of them, but you'll want to
> >> explore them, research them, and test them very thoroughly on
> >> dummy directories first before ever turning them loose on your
> >> system.  
> 
> >Thanks much, but I'm about to adopt your 'too risky' view and do them
> >by hand. I've gone from 'nervous' to 'downright afraid'. :-)  
> 
> That's probably a good thing, although you'll likely eventually reach
> the "healthy respect" phase with a dollop of the "suspicious eye" as
> a happy medium between those two poles.

Yeah - it sounded worse than it is. I'm just enough afraid to choose not
to do it. :-) <- [both eyes are "suspicious eyes".]