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68040
512 MB  Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done ! 
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on: June 11, 2022, 21:50
Looking for a way to batch change the creator ID on 10k+ image files. The Finder "finds" them alright, but neither FileTyper nor CreatorChanger will accept a drop queue that big. |
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Last Edit: June 11, 2022, 21:52 by 68040
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #1 on: June 12, 2022, 00:36
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Update: File Buddy did the trick just fine. Only had to give it enough RAM (~4MB) and it went down faster than a cold beer on a hot summer's day. 
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB  Posts: 2023
Reply #2 on: June 12, 2022, 08:49
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Wow, impressive! 10k+ files is a huge amount for our old OS, imagine having such an archive back in the day! Great to read our beloved Mac OS is up to the task :-)
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #3 on: June 12, 2022, 13:58
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Actually, once I had given it enough RAM FileBuddy handled the search and the resource change almost as fast as on any Windoze machine. I admit that there are tons of background jobs running under Windoze that slow everything down, but that's a main part why I use vintage MacOS to begin with. It went much faster than Apple's own Finder in assembling the list of files. Whoever programmed that tool must have been a rocket scientist. 🚀 And I had my disk cache minimized and both CPU caches disabled!
Last Edit: June 12, 2022, 14:58 by 68040
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cballero
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1024 MB Posts: 1179 System 7, today and forever
Reply #4 on: June 13, 2022, 13:13
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I missed this conversation when it was still fresh but now I'm curious whether MacUser's Find Pro III ever had that in its Swiss army knife toolkit? https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macusers-find-pro-iii
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #5 on: June 16, 2022, 13:13
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Sorry, cballero, but I dispute that tool's description "MUCH FASTEST find utility on Mac". FileBuddy stomps them all! That tools compiled me a list of over ten thousand files from almost a hundred subfolders, searched them by creator and file id *and* sorted them in under 60 seconds! And then it even alllowed me to manipulate these files w/o any drag & drop exercises.
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #6 on: June 16, 2022, 13:17
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Now moving 118,651 files to my new 48GB HFS+ data volume with Synchronize! Pro. Another tool that rocks my world. http://images.macintosh.garden/2022/06/16/ScreenCatch_006.jpg
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cballero
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1024 MB Posts: 1179 System 7, today and forever
Reply #7 on: June 16, 2022, 15:08
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Gotcha!! I threw it in there because it was one of my first System 7 'power tools' which IIRC had the ability to manipulate file type among an army-knife set of things, just recalling things like create aliases using cool buttons, but I think each one of us has their own personal go-to set of utilities  Canopener also comes to mind on the utility-belt tool set as a handy way to recover data from corrupted files, like mangled Word files 
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