I had a dilemna a few weeks ago. I've really been trying to shoot RAW + JPEG on my last few shoots. The small jpeg lets me quickly review stuff and post online without too much effort or manipulation. I also tend to shoot sports, and up with a lot of shots since I can't stage anything and don't want to miss any action.

When I use the MS picture viewer to view the pics and I delete the jpegs that are out of focus, wrong subject, I don't like, etc... I was still left with the raw file. I'd then have to go through the directory to find the mismatches and deleted the raw files manually.

Does anyone else find this to be a time consuming problem to deal with?

So I asked a friend at work to lend me a little hand. He wrote me a little VB script that checks a directory to see if there are any nef files without a corresponding named jpg. If there are it deletes then. No recycle bin, just poof, gone. If you don't shoot raw + jpeg it won't do any good of course.

Is there any interest amongst the group to use the tool? If so, I'll ask my friend if he doesn't mind me sharing.

 

Gary this would be cool Is there a way to get it to Recycle though, I'd prefer it that way.

Will it allow for different brands of camera and how it names files?

 

AE,

The script is pretty simple. I doubt there would be any problem modifying it to compare any two extensions and delete a file of one type if a matching one of the other type didn't exist. The whole thing is a simple VB script thats about 15 lines.

As for the recycle part, probably not as easy. I guess the thoughts when it was written is that I've already gone through and deleted what I don't like, and this is just removing the extra files. If you didn't like the jpeg, that would still be in the recycle bin, but the now, non-matching raw file is gone.