Logging Images In Harddrive :

I have a folder of stamp countries "G".
With Germany, I have 56 subfolders,
I would very much like to log and count the number
of images I have just for Germany in the 56 subfolders.

Anyone aware of a program that can accomodate?
Thanks.

in My Computer, right click on the folder and choose "properties" it should show the total amount of items and total size. Deduct your 56 folders from the total items and as long as only pictures are in those folders, you'll have your image count.

edit - actually, you don't have to deduct anything because it gives separate counts of folders anf files

Right-click on the Germany folder and select properties?

Arghhh! my error guys,
the main folder is Germany-Great Britain
and the subfolders lie underneath
hence my problem

Can I have your advice renewed please?

You can do this with a really simple batch file.

1. Go into Notepad or some other simple text editor.
2. Paste this line in

DIR /S >> C:\output.txt

You can add a path between DIR and /S if you want, or change the output to the directory of your choice.

3. Save it as somename.bat
4. Place it in the folder you want to assess. (don't have to do this if you added a path)
5. Run it.

It should generate a txt file with the entire directory tree, subdirectories, contents, and file totals.

Using your advice, I could place all the subfolders
under 1 folder "Germany"
I would like to avoid this, if there is another solution.

Yay! Postmaster, thanks, I'll give the wheels a spin.

If you need something that's more user friendly, let me know. I can probably dig up a piece of freeware that would do what you need to do. Just let me know what OS you're using.

you can right click on any folder and it'll give you a count of what's inside

so right click on Stamps Disc 08 Germany-Great Britain and click on properties. It will total up everything inside that folder

You can drag all the folders you don't want counted into another folder temporarily and move them back after you see the totals you want

Click just off the first German file, hold the button down and drag down and across to the last German file, so they are all highlighted, then release the button, right click and select properties, it will show you the total file count.

Steve

Do all of your germany images have a file name that distiguishes it from other countries? I assume that they are jpg. If all the subdirectories are in a directory "germany", Open a command prompt window, go to that directory and enter dir *.jpg /s it will list all of the jpg files and list the total at the end

Thanks Guys
lot's of good advice,
I am going to play around with Postmaster's option
that may help for other things in the future

Steve's (Triggersmob) was the no brainer
why it didn't occur to me, who knows?

So now I know why I have two albums bursting with Germany
4,821 files in 60 folders
Thanks Steve for your route

For the record I am going to add Dianne Earl's contribution
to see how many blank spaces her gift filled in.
It will probably be well over 300 stamps!

My pleasure.
I have never done that before, but it seemed obvious, so I tried it and "Bob's your Uncle" (or "BOB's your back of book collection", take your choice).

Steve