It may be because I’ve been working side-by-side with engineers a lot recently, but I’ve been spending a good amount of time getting used to working in Windows CMD/Powershell. For me, that’s meant pretty much never opening File Explorer and instead navigating around my system using one of the aforementioned two methods.
Powershell is neat of course because you can actually write custom scripts for repeat tasks, but I’ve even found the command line (CMD) to be a pretty big time saver.
So late last week I ran into this problem – I had about 1600 files to process in a DAW, which would leave me with 1600 duplicate files to eventually get rid of on my system. The only difference (other than processing) between both sets is the converted set would have “_convt” at the end of its filename.
So how do you solve this without wasting a ton of time? I could think of 3 immediate ways…
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