Folder And File Transfer Question

Cant you just drag the folders with the RAWs to them over to the other HD? Try it with a test folder first because I'm not 100% but I think on my mac if i remember correctly, doing that will just make a copy of whatever you're dragging over and keep the originals in place.

While that would work wonderfully if it were simply the RAWS I need a way to strain out the jpegs that are in the same folders.

If you search .jpeg in that folder it will bring them up and move them to a new folder - temporarily or permanently. The remaining folder will contain your RAW. Then move them.

Make sure the search is folder specific not "entire computer".

Jeffery, that simply moves the jpegs out of folders that are already named. If I wanted to do that I'd grab all the RAWs at once and dump them in a single large file. I need the files to remain in their current folders so that I know what and where the file is.

Windows? If so, open a command window and type the following, changing the directory structure to your own.

xcopy /S /E c:"slash"photos"slash"*.jpg d:"slash"Photos

EDIT: Sorry, the back slashes don't save!

Yes, Windows. So you're saying that command line won't cause them to save on the second hd?

JH,

I just right click on the folder, then "sort by type" and all the RAW and jpegs get separated into 2 large piles! Is this the answer or do you have a different question?

Rich

What I'm asking for is a way to import the folders and the Raw files while leaving copies of the Raws, the folders and the jpegs that are also in those folders on the initial hard drive.

So in other words first hd Folder w/ jpegs and RAW ---> second hd Folder w/ RAW w/o jpegs.

I understand what you are trying to do but I don't know how to do it.
You could just copy all of it and then do a search for *.jpg and delete all of those files.

JH,

Can't you just do what I said, sort,grab just the RAW files and move them to a new foder in the new hard drive? Am I missing something here?

Rich

@Rich, yes you are missing something. He said he didn't want to have to create the folders on the new HD.

@Joshua, Chuck has the right answer, but it's hard to decipher if the forum won't let him post the backslashes. Maybe try Googling "xcopy command syntax" if you feel confident enough to do your copying from a command line.