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On 11/19/24 09:43 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:

I have a NAS drive full of music. It regularly gets filled with lots of AlbumArt pics.
What I do every now and then is a search of the folder, Windows search "AlbumArt", and then delete
them all.

Does anybody know of a program or script that might be better?

Ed

You should try Co-Pilot in Edge.

It returned a Linux script, then I changed it to windows, and it returned this, and I've not tested it.

Here's a script you can use to delete all files in a folder that start with "AlbumArt" on Windows,
using PowerShell:
-------------------------------
# Define the folder path
$folderPath = "C:\path\to\your\folder"

# Get all files starting with "AlbumArt" and delete them
Get-ChildItem -Path $folderPath -Filter "AlbumArt*" -File | Remove-Item

Write-Output "All AlbumArt files have been deleted." ---------------------------------
Instructions:
1. Copy and paste the script into a text editor and save it with a .ps1 extension, for example,
delete_albumart.ps1.

2. Replace "C:\path\to\your\folder" with the actual path to your folder.

3. Open PowerShell and navigate to the directory where the script is saved.

4. If not already enabled, allow script execution by running:
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser

5. Run the script by executing:
.\delete_albumart.ps1

This PowerShell script will find and delete all files in the specified folder that start with
"AlbumArt".




I would think (obviously) the search string could be changed and a ton of other types of files could
be purged. *.bak etc.
I really have found that Co-Pilot can write some really good scripts for me.



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I have a NAS drive full of music. It regularly gets filled with lots of AlbumArt pics.
What I do every now and then is a search of the folder, Windows search "AlbumArt", and then delete them all.

Does anybody know of a program or script that might be better?

Ed

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On 11/19/2024 9:43 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:

I have a NAS drive full of music. It regularly gets filled with lots of AlbumArt pics.
What I do every now and then is a search of the folder, Windows search "AlbumArt", and then delete them all.

Does anybody know of a program or script that might be better?

Ed

look at FORFILES

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Ed Cryer wrote:

I have a NAS drive full of music. It regularly gets filled with lots of AlbumArt pics.
What I do every now and then is a search of the folder, Windows search "AlbumArt", and then delete them all.

Does anybody know of a program or script that might be better?

Use Robocopy ...

The /E switch traverses through subfolders.

The /MIR switch removes files from the destination that are not in the
source.

Normally you use Robocopy for backup, so for example:

SET Source=
SET Dest=
ROBOCOPY %Source% %Dest% AlbumArt* /E /MIR

This would find all files of the form "AlbumArt*" and copy them to the destination. You might want to refine the selection to "AlbumArt*.JPG"
The argument is in quotes to allow for file names that contain spaces.

The /MIR option deletes any of those files which exist in the
destination but not the source, so it keeps the destination as a mirror
image of the source.

So if the source folder is empty all the matching files in the
destination will be removed.

You can report progress to a log file, and invoke a "log only" mode
which shows what the command will do without actually copying or
deleting anything.


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Ed Cryer wrote:

[snip]

You can report progress to a log file, and invoke a "log only" mode
which shows what the command will do without actually copying or
deleting anything.

Nice suggestion, but I don't think it's much improvement on what I'm
already doing.
My way gives you a full listing of all the files, so you can keep track
of what's occurring before you delete them.

what I wrote:

You can report progress to a log file, and invoke a "log only" mode
which shows what the command will do without actually copying or
deleting anything.

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Graham J wrote:

Ed Cryer wrote:

[snip]

You can report progress to a log file, and invoke a "log only" mode
which shows what the command will do without actually copying or
deleting anything.

Nice suggestion, but I don't think it's much improvement on what I'm
already doing.
My way gives you a full listing of all the files, so you can keep
track of what's occurring before you delete them.

what I wrote:

You can report progress to a log file, and invoke a "log only" mode
which shows what the command will do without actually copying or
deleting anything.

Does it give the clear details that I find so useful?
I don't think it does. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tfghc7uluucixb50yj1hm/AlbumArt19.11.24.jpg?rlkey=wljj9qwb5vwtatv2spu834tt0&dl=0

Ed

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Ed Cryer wrote:

[snip]

Does it give the clear details that I find so useful?
I don't think it does. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tfghc7uluucixb50yj1hm/AlbumArt19.11.24.jpg?rlkey=wljj9qwb5vwtatv2spu834tt0&dl=0

Comparable, but as a plain text file, so not as pretty.


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On Tue, 11/19/2024 9:43 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:

I have a NAS drive full of music. It regularly gets filled with lots of AlbumArt pics.
What I do every now and then is a search of the folder, Windows search "AlbumArt", and then delete them all.

Does anybody know of a program or script that might be better?

Ed

Windows Search indexes local files and stores info in the
Windows.db or Windows.edb file. That's a file that averages
about 4GB in size, and it has file names in it. The .edb is Jet Blue,
the .db is SQLite.

Now, the neat thing about things like NTFS partitions on your
local disk, is they can have "USN Journal". Every time a new file
is created, the USN Journal tells Windows Indexer that "Hey,
a new file just got created, and its name is AlbumArt.jpg".
In this way, NTFS file systems can be tracked in real time
by Everything.Exe (voidtools) and by Windows Search.

Well, how does a NAS differ ? It's a mystery meat.
Two client computers can be connected to the NAS,
each adding AlbumArt files. The NAS processor certainly
has access to the file system (which is local to it), so
it knows what is going on. However, your machine has none
of this info to go on.

When you connect to \\MusicNAS\shared , and if you search
for AlbumArt.jpg there, then a brute force search is going on.
The tree is being traversed, one item at a time. No matter whether
Windows Search does it, or Robocopy does it, a lot of remote
agents will be doing this the brute force way.

If you had an unused computer, and you installed windows Server on it,
then Windows Server has its own WindowsIndexer, and it can generate
a real time index. Then, as long as a windows client PC can "talk"
to the Windows Server federated index, faster-than-brute-force
searches result. The deletion operation, however, still has some
elements of brute-ism about it, and you'd be lucky to delete
more than 400 a second. That's assuming you had a file of absolute
paths specifying what is to be deleted.

Some NAS applications, have their own indexing application
that runs on the NAS. But at least one commenter didn't find
this particularly impressive.

The other thing to do, is see if the ripper software you're using,
when it contacts GraceNote, maybe it could pull Track Names and
not bother to fetch the AlbumArt.jpg. Like if there was a tick box
for that.

Summary: To a first approximation, you can't go faster
than the manual technique Windows Search is doing right
now. While indexing which runs on the remote device itself
is enticing, it in effect costs money. Robocopy works just
as manually as the File Explorer search box would. Everything
need a stat() and that's expensive.

Paul

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On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:58:20 -0500
Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

Weren't you "Oliver" a minute ago?

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On Wed, 11/20/2024 12:25 PM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:

On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:58:20 -0500
Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

Weren't you "Oliver" a minute ago?

They only gave me the one name at the Dollar Store.

Paul <nospam@needed.com>
Paul (nospam@needed.invalid>

I've always been Paul.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MoWQSe3txY

Paul

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Paul wrote:

On Wed, 11/20/2024 12:25 PM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:

On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:58:20 -0500
Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

Weren't you "Oliver" a minute ago?

They only gave me the one name at the Dollar Store.

Paul <nospam@needed.com>
Paul (nospam@needed.invalid>

I've always been Paul.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MoWQSe3txY

Paul

I love that Jim Carrey version. It sounds better than The Beatles to me.

Ed

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On 11/20/2024 11:25 AM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:

On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:58:20 -0500
Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

Weren't you "Oliver" a minute ago?

I'm also wondering if this Oliver is actually another Arlen??

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Ed Cryer wrote:

I have a NAS drive full of music. It regularly gets filled with lots of AlbumArt pics.
What I do every now and then is a search of the folder, Windows search "AlbumArt", and then delete them all.

Does anybody know of a program or script that might be better?

Ed

I don't have a NAS but do have a small network and use Everything for
searches and deletes similar to yours.

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Paul in Houston TX wrote:

Ed Cryer wrote:

I have a NAS drive full of music. It regularly gets filled with lots
of AlbumArt pics.
What I do every now and then is a search of the folder, Windows search
"AlbumArt", and then delete them all.

Does anybody know of a program or script that might be better?

Ed

I don't have a NAS but do have a small network and use Everything for searches and deletes similar to yours.

Wow!It's some time since I last used Everything, and it always surprises
me just how fast it is.
It didn't pick up on the NAS drive plugged into my router, but it picked
up drives on USB.

Everything has the option to connect to an ETP server, I wonder if I
could somehow connect to the router NAS with some protocol.

Ed

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On 11/21/2024 10:29 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:

sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:

On 11/20/2024 11:25 AM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:

On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:58:20 -0500
Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

Weren't you "Oliver" a minute ago?

I'm also wondering if this Oliver is actually another Arlen??

I'm wondering why on earth you're wondering! :-)

Like "Is the pope catholic?".

Thanks. +1

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sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:

On 11/20/2024 11:25 AM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:

On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:58:20 -0500
Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

Weren't you "Oliver" a minute ago?

I'm also wondering if this Oliver is actually another Arlen??

I'm wondering why on earth you're wondering! :-)

Like "Is the pope catholic?".

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On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:05:03 -0500
Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

On Wed, 11/20/2024 12:25 PM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:

On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:58:20 -0500
Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

Weren't you "Oliver" a minute ago?

They only gave me the one name at the Dollar Store.

Paul <nospam@needed.com>
Paul (nospam@needed.invalid>

I've always been Paul.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MoWQSe3txY

Paul

I apologise; it just seemed your post was similar.

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On Thu, 11/21/2024 6:40 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:

Paul in Houston TX wrote:

Ed Cryer wrote:

I have a NAS drive full of music. It regularly gets filled with lots of AlbumArt pics.
What I do every now and then is a search of the folder, Windows search "AlbumArt", and then delete them all.

Does anybody know of a program or script that might be better?

Ed

I don't have a NAS but do have a small network and use Everything for searches and deletes similar to yours.

Wow!It's some time since I last used Everything, and it always surprises me just how fast it is.
It didn't pick up on the NAS drive plugged into my router, but it picked up drives on USB.

Everything has the option to connect to an ETP server, I wonder if I could somehow connect to the router NAS with some protocol.

Ed

Something has to run on the NAS server, to maintain information
which is always up-to-date. The NAS knows when it has added or
deleted a file from its local disk, whereas the clients connected
to the NAS, don't know that.

"Windows Federated Search and Synology NASs"

https://community.synology.com/enu/forum/17/post/14355

Your local disk, uses the USN Change Journal on an NTFS
file system, to keep the Windows Search up-to-date on
what files were added or deleted. This is how Everything.exe ,
after doing its "full" scan to populate the file list, it
receives notifications about file additions and deletions.
Everything.exe updates its lists. This does not work on
FAT32, and the Everything.exe documentation refers to that
issue (that FAT32 has no USN Change Journal). Similarly,
indexing a FAT32 with Windows Search, has the same gaping
hole, that new files can't be detected.

The NAS needs to play games like this, and operate some sort
of interface to support search. Whether any NAS product
does this today, I'm not a NAS person and don't know. The
Google search only gave me one reference, the above one, that
was relevant, and all the rest of the twaddle from the Google
AI was a waste of electrons.

While a NAS can have a privately implemented search function
(a separate App that talks to the NAS daemon for search), that means
opening a separate App rather than using File Explorer. This is not
likely to be pleasant. Maybe it "only works on your Phone".

Paul

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Paul wrote:

On Thu, 11/21/2024 6:40 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:

Paul in Houston TX wrote:

Ed Cryer wrote:

I have a NAS drive full of music. It regularly gets filled with lots of AlbumArt pics.
What I do every now and then is a search of the folder, Windows search "AlbumArt", and then delete them all.

Does anybody know of a program or script that might be better?

Ed

I don't have a NAS but do have a small network and use Everything for searches and deletes similar to yours.

Wow!It's some time since I last used Everything, and it always surprises me just how fast it is.
It didn't pick up on the NAS drive plugged into my router, but it picked up drives on USB.

Everything has the option to connect to an ETP server, I wonder if I could somehow connect to the router NAS with some protocol.

Ed

Something has to run on the NAS server, to maintain information
which is always up-to-date. The NAS knows when it has added or
deleted a file from its local disk, whereas the clients connected
to the NAS, don't know that.

"Windows Federated Search and Synology NASs"

https://community.synology.com/enu/forum/17/post/14355

Your local disk, uses the USN Change Journal on an NTFS
file system, to keep the Windows Search up-to-date on
what files were added or deleted. This is how Everything.exe ,
after doing its "full" scan to populate the file list, it
receives notifications about file additions and deletions.
Everything.exe updates its lists. This does not work on
FAT32, and the Everything.exe documentation refers to that
issue (that FAT32 has no USN Change Journal). Similarly,
indexing a FAT32 with Windows Search, has the same gaping
hole, that new files can't be detected.

The NAS needs to play games like this, and operate some sort
of interface to support search. Whether any NAS product
does this today, I'm not a NAS person and don't know. The
Google search only gave me one reference, the above one, that
was relevant, and all the rest of the twaddle from the Google
AI was a waste of electrons.

While a NAS can have a privately implemented search function
(a separate App that talks to the NAS daemon for search), that means
opening a separate App rather than using File Explorer. This is not
likely to be pleasant. Maybe it "only works on your Phone".

Paul

VLC works on all my devices to connect to the router disc.
Even on Apple devices, such as Apple TV and iPads.
Sonos used to work until recently. But then the mean-spirited little
devils broke it. I think SMB protocol is involved in there somewhere.

Ed

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On Fri, 11/22/2024 6:09 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:

VLC works on all my devices to connect to the router disc.
Even on Apple devices, such as Apple TV and iPads.
Sonos used to work until recently. But then the mean-spirited little devils broke it. I think SMB protocol is involved in there somewhere.

Ed

Could be removal of SMBV1.

A lot of old NAS boxes use SMBV1 which is WinXP era.

Paul

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Paul wrote:

On Fri, 11/22/2024 6:09 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:

VLC works on all my devices to connect to the router disc.
Even on Apple devices, such as Apple TV and iPads.
Sonos used to work until recently. But then the mean-spirited little devils broke it. I think SMB protocol is involved in there somewhere.

Ed

Could be removal of SMBV1.

A lot of old NAS boxes use SMBV1 which is WinXP era.

Paul

I'll have to try a reinstallation of Sonos some day. I'm reluctant to do
it, because it works well enough if I plug the HD into USB. Also, the
speaker setup took time, with balancing and syncing.
Perhaps over Xmas (:-

Ed

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