Move unused Media to temporary folder

[kreator]

Hi group, i need your help.

Anyone knows how to move/remove unused media to a temporary folder?

May be there's a Third app to do that.

I have some systems with full media packs and i have only few games installed in those systems. Now i don't have too much room in my disc and i would like to remove the unused media.  If it's automatic or semiautomatic, would be great.:-)

 

Thanks in advance.

[diskmach]

Hi,

You could make a "copy files after a list" bat file from a list of what you want to keep, that will copy those to a folder, then you could get rid of the old folder and put the new folder's content in the media folder.

Like this:

@ECHO ON

SET FileList=D:\Itemstocopy.txt
SET Source=D:\Sourcefolder
SET Destination=D:\Sourcefolder\Itemstocopy

FOR /F "USEBACKQ TOKENS=*" %%F IN ("%FileList%") DO XCOPY /F /Y "%Source%\%%~F" "%Destination%\"

GOTO :EOF

 

[kreator]

Brutal, thanks a lot. 

I'll try tomorrow with calm. 

I'll let you know, may be it helps to other people.

 

Cheers and Party on.

[Spawk]

Easier with this:

 

[diskmach]

Yeah, if he's using RL, which he didn't state clearly. Not that I'm well versed in the different tools here.

 

Depending on what you have in the folder, if it's easy for you to make a list of the files you want removed, you could also use "delete according to a filelist" -

Make a bat

for /f "delims=" %%f in (files_to_delete.txt) do del "%%f"

make a txt file listing named as above and put both in media folder. Run bat.

Careful with this though, as it deletes everything you have listed directly. 

 

[32assassin]

I used this method

1. Use Dons tools to create an XML that only contains the games you have

2. use this  https://emumovies.com/files/file/1174-hyperspin-asset-xml-audit/

 

it will move any file not found in your XML to a sub folder (  this is why step 1 is important)

[thatman84]

I believe HyperTools or Hyperspin Checker in the 3rd Party apps section has a feature to move unneeded files out.

its been a year since I audited a download pack and forget exactly which one of those apps does it but it is very easy in one of those tools

[Aorin]

Yes, HyperspinChecker is what I use for that and other stuff, really simple.

[kreator]

Hi thanks for the replies. 
Yes i have RL installed and working. I have to try these tools. I had no time yet. 

I used the Don Tools long time ago, but  i'll try again with mine Amstrad and Spectrum folders and clean them.
I'll inform which one worked for me. 

Thanks

[kreator]

Finally i had time to clean and make some room in my harddrive. 

I use the the 32 Assasin system and it worked like charm. 

Then after that i compressed the video files and now i have more room

I compresed the video to 640px  (if you nedd more you can change it)  and 24FPS. 
this is the Batch that i used with the FFMEG.EXE:

md pup_convert
for %%f in (*.mp4) do ffmpeg -i "%%f" -c:v libx264 -crf 24 -r 24 -preset slower -vf "scale=640:-2" -pix_fmt yuv420p -c:a aac -ac 2 -b:a 128k  "pup_convert\%%f"
 

 

All the best and Thanks.