Any Sophisticated Ways to Glean Whole HDD?

abrogard · 11-19-2019, 04:38 PM

What I mean is that if I set Calibre to find books on my E: drive it come up with some 60,000 books.

Which I don't have. Most of those 'books' are little txt files or even tiny pdf files produced by software.

Only thing I can think of to do is to search for a type, like pdf say, and then copy everything over to a temp dir. Then run my eye down the listing and delete everything that seems wrong.

Then tell calibre to take up the remains of the dir.

Then do the next type.

Is there any more sophisticated way of doing this?

theducks · 11-19-2019, 07:35 PM

Code:

Dir E:\*.pdf  /S > booklog.txt

the /S is recursive sub directories
I started at the root, but you can adjust the base path to taste

abrogard · 11-22-2019, 02:39 AM

Yep, that's a good idea if there's nothing better, thanks.

My powershell wouldn't accept /s though. I had to use -recurse

11-19-2019, 04:38 PM	#1
abrogard Groupie Posts: 168 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2017 Device: kindle	Any Sophisticated Ways to Glean Whole HDD? What I mean is that if I set Calibre to find books on my E: drive it come up with some 60,000 books. Which I don't have. Most of those 'books' are little txt files or even tiny pdf files produced by software. Only thing I can think of to do is to search for a type, like pdf say, and then copy everything over to a temp dir. Then run my eye down the listing and delete everything that seems wrong. Then tell calibre to take up the remains of the dir. Then do the next type. Is there any more sophisticated way of doing this?

11-19-2019, 07:35 PM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,043 Karma: 60358908 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Code: Dir E:\*.pdf /S > booklog.txt the /S is recursive sub directories I started at the root, but you can adjust the base path to taste

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11-22-2019, 02:39 AM	#3
abrogard Groupie Posts: 168 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2017 Device: kindle	Yep, that's a good idea if there's nothing better, thanks. My powershell wouldn't accept /s though. I had to use -recurse

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