I first just entered the keywords using Thumbs Plus 7. Pain. TP8 is not much better – cannot keep the image open while I add the keywords. [...]]]> So I am trying to archive the check scans. TIF files named “donation-2010-DEP01-01.TIF” to identify the year, deposit batch number (01) and the scan number within the batch.

I first just entered the keywords using Thumbs Plus 7. Pain. TP8 is not much better – cannot keep the image open while I add the keywords. Small monitor.

Then I tried the user variables in Photo Mechanic. This was better, but I would need to change the settings for the user variables for each deposit.

Then I considered the filename. I can read the data right out of the filename using the variables. For the file donation-2010-DEP01-01.TIF, I use a caption definition:

{filenamebase:-13,4} Clinic Donations Deposit {filenamebase:-5,2} Page {filenamebase:-2,2}

which results in the caption of

Clinic Donations Deposit 01 Page 01

I can do the same thing with keywords. I entered the keyword phrase into the IPTC Stationery Pad:

Clinic, {filenamebase:-13, 2}, deposit_{filenamebase:-5,2}, DEPOSIT{filenamebase:-5,2}, donation, Page_{filenamebase:-2}, SMCORG

to end up with the kewords:

Clinic, 2010, deposit_01, DEPOSIT01, donation, Page_01, SMCORG

But when I reopen the pad, I see:

Clinic, {filenamebase | -13, 2}, deposit_{filenamebase |-5, DEPOSIT{filenamebase | -5, donation, Page_{filenamebase |-2}, SMCORG

which keywords as

Clinic, 20, deposit_01-03, SMCORG

Note the lost 2nd arguments and closing braces on some of the keyword terms.

I researched a bit in their forums and found a similar problem in this article, Colon in Keywords. It was mentioned there that PM 4.6.2.1 had a problem with leaving colons alone in keywords, and 4.6.3 (recently released) fixed these problems. So I downloaded and installed 4.6.3 and the vertical pipes now work, but the problems with the closing braces are still there. Boo. I might have to go back to user variables.

Saturday night I posted a question on the Camera Bits forum. Sunday morning Kirk the developer posts a “I’m on it” message. Then he posts that yes, it’s a bug, it will be fixed, here is the workaround. Nice. I post a followup. He posts one an hour later.

A good reason to support little companies with specialized software. Now I just scan, rename the file, and apply the Stationery Pad. Bam! Fill in the donors – done.

Photo Mechanic 4.6.3 from Camera Bits
Camera Bits Forum
Thumbs Plus from Cerious Software

} TestFoo s1 = Mockito.mock(TestFoo.class); TestFoo s2 = Mockito.mock(TestFoo.class);

The Mockito doc “Real Partial Mocks” says to do this:

when(mock.someMethod()).thenCallRealMethod();

we get the error

“The method when(T) in the type Mockito is not applicable for the arguments (void)”

After 1/2 hour of hunting I found a hint, and refactored:

Mockito.doCallRealMethod().when(s1).assertEquals(s2);

I use MusikCube a lot. That said, I sometimes share files from various machines that have duplicate files, and rather than hand-edit the playlists after each synchronization to eliminate the duplicate albums, I want an automated way. Since MusikCube runs on SQLite, why not do it [...]]]> Or, Use SQL Squirrel and JDBC to dedupe MusikCube playlists

I use MusikCube a lot. That said, I sometimes share files from various machines that have duplicate files, and rather than hand-edit the playlists after each synchronization to eliminate the duplicate albums, I want an automated way. Since MusikCube runs on SQLite, why not do it in SQL?

First download the SQLiteJDBC JDBC driver and install to the SQL Squirrel lib folder. Restart the client and add a new Driver to the list using name=SQLite, example URL = jdbc:sqlite:test.db, classname= org.sqlite.JDBC and Website URL = http://www.zentus.com/sqlitejdbc/

First problem – how to access the database. Doc is sketchy, but based on some investigation of the org.sqlite.JDBC.java code I found that it uses everything following the “jdbc:sqlite:” prefix as a new File() argument (unless nothing is found, than an in-memory DB is assumed). So I can access the db using the JDBC URL: jdbc:sqlite:C:/Documents and Settings/username/.musikproject/musik_u.db. I love source code.

Note: I do not put any work into playlists. I am a big fan of letting the metadata do the work. I am comfortable with nuking the DB a starting over, if necessary. If you have lots of valuable annotations, you are editing in the wrong place. So if my tests blow up the DB, so what.

Then from a SQL Server site article, How to remove duplicate rows…, I can compile this query:

SELECT title, album, count(*)
FROM songs
GROUP BY title, album
HAVING count(*) > 1

I easily get 100 rows with 2 hits each.

Alternate form of query (from here)

select s1.filename, s1.songid, s2.songid, s1.title, CASE WHEN substr(s1.filename,1)=’f’ OR substr(s2.filename,1)=’f’ THEN 1 ELSE 2 END as fred
from songs s1, songs s2
where s1.songid < s2.songid and s1.title = s2.title AND s1.artist = s2.artist AND s1.album = s2.album
AND s1.artist = 'Aerosmith'

and also

select s1.filename,
( CASE
– my box has top priority
WHEN (substr(s1.filename, 4, length(‘mp3′)) = ‘mp3′ ) THEN 1
– handle \\m51098 machine names
WHEN (substr(s1.filename, 3, length(‘m51098′)) = ‘m51098′ )THEN 2
WHEN (substr(s1.filename, 3, length(‘m51165′)) = ‘m51165′ )THEN 3
WHEN (substr(s1.filename, 3, length(‘m51134′)) = ‘m51134′ )THEN 4
ELSE 10 END ) AS priority
from songs s1
where 1 < (select count(*)
from songs s2
where s1.title = s2.title AND s1.artist = s2.artist AND s1.album = s2.album
AND s1.artist = 'Aerosmith')
-- limit to Aerosmith for speed
AND s1.artist = 'Aerosmith'

More to come…

Tools:
SQurrel SQL JDBC client
SQLite browser
SQLite core function reference
SQLite page
SQLiteJDBC driver

A little googling. Found this article on Error 500 Wordpress 1&1 Web Hosting. I already had a .htaccess file, but added the two lines – the first time I forgot the space and it blew up everything.

Thanks dude!

I reached into the [...]]]> I found some photos of a rock climbing group from work. They were named “Cora At Top.JPG”, which is great to look at the once, but they don’t really fit into the archival scheme. Plus I didn’t want to have to reenter the caption, since it was encoded into the filename already.

I reached into the new release (2.7.4) of the ever useful EXIFUtils and checked the field name list. I found [file-name] and [file-base], which represent as a source the file name e.g. “Cora At Top.JPG” and the base file name “Cora At Top”. So by entering:

> exifedit /a ip-caption=[file-base] .

I add a IPTC-Caption tag to each file using the file base name as the caption. The brackets make it a “macro”, otherwise the literal text “file-base” is inserted, which is not what I wanted. The dot is *.*.

The program creates a bunch of backup files, which I deleted. The /b option does not create backups. Next time.

Then I use my imgnum script to reformat the name to the FSC_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS std format.

"%EXIFUTILS_HOME%\exiffile.exe" /t /n VVKG[date-taken].jpg .
rem fix VVKGYYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS.JPG to VVKGYYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.JPG
rem change space to _
%CYGWIN_HOME%\bin\rename.exe " " "_" *.jpg
rem change dash to null
%CYGWIN_HOME%\bin\rename.exe - "" *.jpg
%CYGWIN_HOME%\bin\rename.exe - "" *.jpg
%CYGWIN_HOME%\bin\rename.exe - "" *.jpg
%CYGWIN_HOME%\bin\rename.exe - "" *.jpg


I also use Replicator to synchronize the files between my USB flash drive, home and work PCs. Sometimes it gets confused, mostly when I make changes at both ends. Replicator realizes this and stops. It creates a copy of the file, renames it password~1.kdb and replicates [...]]]> I use KeePass to track hundreds of passwords, securely.

I also use Replicator to synchronize the files between my USB flash drive, home and work PCs. Sometimes it gets confused, mostly when I make changes at both ends. Replicator realizes this and stops. It creates a copy of the file, renames it password~1.kdb and replicates the two copies.

How to tell what changed? Cool tools like WinMerge only detect differences of binary files, not what changed. Especially for an encrypted file.

I export each file to an xml file, say password.kdb.xml and password~1.kdb.xml. I uncheck the top two – encode \n and eliminate backup items. Who cares? I include all fields below.

WARNING: these files now have ALL your passwords in cleartext. DELETE them when done — preferably a DOD delete.

Each record has a GUID — so no matter what change you make to the record, the GUID remains the same. So the way to check is to sort the XML by GUID and then compare the two with a diff tool.

I wrote an XSL stylesheet to sort them:


------keepass-exp-sortbyguid.xsl----------
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
  <xsl:template match="pwlist">
    <xsl:apply-templates>
      <xsl:sort select="uuid"/>
    </xsl:apply-templates>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="*">
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:apply-templates/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


I use the msxsl transformer cuz its easy on windows. Use your own, or send me a script for cygwin tools.

iconv is required to convert the output of the XSL transform from UTF-8 into ISO-8859-1 or else bad things happen down the chain.

Here is the batch file to drive them:

------keepass-export-xml-sorter-converter.bat----------
setlocal
rem take the xml output of keepass export, sort them by UUID,
rem export to new file for comparison. CLEARTEXT!!!

set ICONV_HOME=c:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin
msxsl password~1.kdb.xml keepass-exp-sortbyguid.xsl | "%ICONV_HOME%\iconv"
  -f UTF-16 -t ISO-8859-1 | tidy -xml -i -wrap 99999 > password~1.kdb.sort.xml
msxsl password.kdb.xml keepass-exp-sortbyguid.xsl | "%ICONV_HOME%\iconv" -f UTF-16
 &nbsp-t ISO-8859-1 | tidy -xml -i -wrap 99999 > password.kdb.sort.xml

endlocal


Now it is trivial to compare the two with WinMerge and identify the differences -- everything lines up!

I had a problem this last time with characters that do not convert -- typographic quotes and em dashes (ala Word Auto-Correcting). If you see
09063 Flaming Moeiconv: x: cannot convert
check the line for the goofy chars.

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