Desktop Collage Manager

Friday, July 13, 2007 by Holm76 | Discussion: Animated Wallpapers

Reading the Desktop Collage comments posts I set out on a little quest helping out unlucky users now that Stardock said they didnt want to update this Dream.

Ive have created a little tool that will help you manage different picture folder to better accomodate the lack of Randomness and Recurcive folder scan of the Desktop Collage Dream.

Here is a screenshot of the app

The tool works by recursively looking through the folders added and copying all the images it meets to destination folder. When copying image it renames it to something like: 0A59FDAC-96A6-4D5C-97BE-1AAD0CCD647E.jpg

A nice random filename

Be careful though as there is an option to delete files in destination folder prior to copying the files. If you have pricesless collectibles in your destination folder they will be deleted if you check Empty destination folder.

This tool doesnt solve all your problems but it helps make Desktop Collage a better Dream.

Hope you like it

http://www.hinc.dk/Rename/DesktopCollageManager.zip

 

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davidoverton
Reply #1 Monday, July 23, 2007 5:02 PM
I have a request that would take a lot less disk space - instead of making a file copy, any chance of making a junction point or link (not a .lnk file, but an NTSF link - ala "fsutil /hardlink" from an elevated cmd prompt). When it deletes everything, it could just delete the links, so no danger now, and when it adds, it takes a fraction of the space.

A crude way to achieve this would be with this script (copy and save to copy_pics.cmd) and MUST be run from an elevate CMD prompt that is run with the /V:ON switch (i.e. cmd /v:on) and it will create a c:\users\\allpics directory:
Code: vbscript
  1. @echo off
  2. md %homepath%\allpics
  3. cd %homepath%\allpics
  4. del dupe_copy_*_*:*.jpg
  5. for /F "usebackq delims==" %%x in (`dir %homepath%\pictures\*.jpg /b /s`) do (
  6. set a=!random!
  7. set b=!time:~6,5!
  8. fsutil hardlink create "dupe_copy_!a!_!b!_%%~nxx" "%%x"
  9. )


let me know what you think.

thanks


David



Holm76
Reply #2 Saturday, August 11, 2007 7:22 AM
Im not familiar with NTSF links...

Do you know if Desktop Collage at all supports it?

Anyways you seem like you know your way around Batch scripting so I guess you dont have any problems making Desktop Collage work as it should have been working from the start

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