Folder comparison: filter to ignore file extension (i.e. only compare file name)

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Hello folks,

Here is the problem I am trying to solve:

  1. I back up photos from my camera to my computer. I bring over both JPG and RAW versions of each photo.
  2. I review the photos by looking at the JPG files, and delete the ones I don’t care about
  3. Problem: I now have to manually find the corresponding RAW files and delete them

It’d be handy to use Meld to compare the two folders I have my files in (one for JPGs and one for RAWs), and highlight the files that I need to remove. To do this, I need to have Meld ignore the file extension, and only look at the name.

As far as I can tell, there is no way to do this. But I might be wrong. Therefore, I thought I’d ask for a little help. :grin:

Push come to shove, I can write a Python or Bash script to handle this for me. But I’d rather not reinvent the wheel. :smile:

Cheers!

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There’s no way to do this in Meld as it stands.

If you’re willing to mess with the source, there is a class called CanonicalListing in dirdiff.py that is used to normalise filenames (lower-casing, canonical unicode decomposition) and I think that you could probably strip file extensions there and this might just work. I don’t feel that this is a common enough use case to include in Meld itself, but the code change would probably reasonable simple if you wanted to try.

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Thanks for the pointer. I’ll see if it’s worth the trouble, otherwise I’ll just write a script that handles the task for me.

Cheers!