Visual Basic Script File – Think Bensonium

Image Video Management Program

Roderick Benson — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 10:21:48 +0000

This VBS script file allows you to manage your many photos and videos that are captured by the multiple mobile phones in your family and then moved into cloud storage. The program has 4 different functions. Firstly, it can search your system Pictures or Videos folder, find image and video files, identify when they were taken and move them into month subfolders which are inside the year the photo/image was acquired. Secondly, the program can be used to search any folder and subfolder on your computer and move images or videos it finds back into the system Pictures or Videos folder. That way it is possible to disentangle your images and videos from all the other documents you keep on your computer.

Desktop Photo Program

Rbenson — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 17:45:48 +0000

Before Microsoft released Windows 10, it was possible to set your desktop to cycle through your personal photos. With the release of Windows 10, while it is still possible to set your wallpaper to your pictures folder, the operating system no longer looks in any subfolders. Therefore, if you’re like most people, and you organise your photos into subfolders, none of them will be displayed on your desktop. This program fixes this limitation allowing you to set Windows so that it looks through all your photos no matter which subfolder they are in.

It does this by creating a folder in your public directory called Picture links (full path c:\users\public\DesktopPhotoEdit\PictureLinks.

Inside this directory it places shortcuts to all your photo no matter what subfolder inside the picture folder they are located. By placing all the links into a single folder it effectively “flattens” the folder structure so that all the photos are now accessible to Window 10 and Windows 11.

The program also allows you, with a simple keyboard shortcut, to go directly from your desktop wallpaper photo to the photo file so you can edit or delete it. This is great because it means you can now use your desktop wallpaper to help sort through your photos.

When you get a photo you don’t like, you simply push ++ and you are taken directly to the photo where you can delete or edit it. I fix my photos which contain red eyes using this method.

Cloud Duplicate Files Cleaner

Rbenson — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 17:29:16 +0000

While the cloud is a great thing, if you are using multiple computers, you may find you end up with lots of conflicted files. Conflicted file names can be different depending on your cloud provider and also the cloud version of software.

Example of duplicate files names from Onedrive could be:

FileName-ComputerName where ComputerName is the name of your computer. Say you have a Word File called “Book”. If you have been editing it on two or more computers and your computer name was Hal123, then you may end up with two files one called Book and one called Book-Hal123. If you have even more computers sharing the same cloud space, it is even possible to get file names like Book-Hal123-ComputerName2 etc.

For Google drive conflicted files are often expressed as Filename (n) where n can be any number depending on how many times the file has been conflicted. However, more recent versions of Google drive also create filenames with the word “conflicted” inside the brackets such as (Conflicted n).

These two programs work together to help you sort out your duplicate files:

FixDuplicateFile.vbs
ProcessDuplicates.vbs

These programs are used one after the other to completely sort out all the annoying duplicate files that have appeared on your hard disk due to file sharing issues between computers that are accessing the same cloud space.