This question is peripheral to music, but is there a quick and easy way to replace an old jpg with a new one in several hundred folders without having to laboriously copy it manually into each folder?
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Quote from: lbjames on September 24, 2026, 09:55:42 PMDid you try asking our new good friend Gemini or ChatGPT?
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Erm, I don't want to offend you for this, but aren't you going to be in trouble for this one? No offense. :-\
Quote from: Yohanes Salomo on September 24, 2026, 10:01:00 PMErm, I don't want to offend you for this, but aren't you going to be in trouble for this one? No offense. :-\
Possibly only by referring to them both as a "good friend". Friendship, like trust, is not a given and has to be earned. I'm not sure we're quite at that stage yet! :)
Quote from: Yohanes Salomo on September 24, 2026, 10:01:00 PMQuote from: lbjames on September 24, 2026, 09:55:42 PMDid you try asking our new good friend Gemini or ChatGPT?
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Erm, I don't want to offend you for this, but aren't you going to be in trouble for this one? No offense. :-\
what trouble?
sometimes they will provide correct info, sometimes no
it's your job / human's job to validate whether the info is accurate or not.
Quote from: lbjames on September 24, 2026, 10:45:40 PMQuote from: Yohanes Salomo on September 24, 2026, 10:01:00 PMQuote from: lbjames on September 24, 2026, 09:55:42 PMDid you try asking our new good friend Gemini or ChatGPT?
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Erm, I don't want to offend you for this, but aren't you going to be in trouble for this one? No offense. :-\
what trouble?
sometimes they will provide correct info, sometimes no
it's your job / human's job to validate whether the info is accurate or not.
Erm, okay? Just letting you know because I don't want you to get into trouble for this.
Quote from: nidostar on September 24, 2026, 10:17:42 PMPossibly only by referring to them both as a "good friend". Friendship, like trust, is not a given and has to be earned. I'm not sure we're quite at that stage yet! :)
Ah, I see that, Nido. I see. :)
Quote from: Yohanes Salomo on September 24, 2026, 10:58:43 PMQuote from: lbjames on September 24, 2026, 10:45:40 PMQuote from: Yohanes Salomo on September 24, 2026, 10:01:00 PMQuote from: lbjames on September 24, 2026, 09:55:42 PMDid you try asking our new good friend Gemini or ChatGPT?
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Erm, I don't want to offend you for this, but aren't you going to be in trouble for this one? No offense. :-\
what trouble?
sometimes they will provide correct info, sometimes no
it's your job / human's job to validate whether the info is accurate or not.
Erm, okay? Just letting you know because I don't want you to get into trouble for this.
what trouble?
it's legal to use
i guess your country does not allow it? too bad for you.
Quote from: lbjames on September 25, 2026, 12:58:32 AMwhat trouble?
it's legal to use
i guess your country does not allow it? too bad for you.
No. My country allows it, so it's fine. But it's just that I'm a little worried. But, oh well. I thought it's bad, but okay.
Guys... eight replies but no answer! :o
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I wondered if some of you who had large music collections may have needed to copy a file into multiple folders and had a tool for the purpose. OK if you don't know the answer it's OK, never mind. I just thought I'd ask.
Interesting problem, this - if we're talking hundreds of folders, it's a bit of a pain to do manually in individual operations (as I'm sure you've already concluded before asking here), so it would probably be best to A) create a simple .bat script or use Powershell if you're on Windows or B) use some software for it. I don't think this is possible to do in any easy way in the native Windows file manager.
A)
The script itself should be quite simple; i.e. "replace file x.jpg with file x(new).jpg" - but how cumbersome it might be to type up depends a bit on your actual folder/file structure, as this script would need the paths of both new and old images; as an example, that'd be something like:
"C:\Music\Library\KPM\KPM 1188 - Contempo\MDMtMTM5MTE3NDIw/MC0xMzQ4LmpwZWc.jpeg" (old photo)
and "C:\Photos\ImprovedCovers\KPM1188.jpg" (new photo)
On the other hand, if your files and folders are all something neat and sequential like:
"C:\1\1.jpg" (old photo)
and "C:\New\1\1.jpg" (new photo)
... then that'd of course be much simpler :D
Do the old and new photos have the same filenames?
B)
I haven't tried any of these myself, but a cursory google search indicates third-party file management software like FreeCommander might be able to do this for you, too.