Program to copy by file size

swedex

My sisters laptops hard drive went south recently but I managed to salvage her "precious" photos off it with photorec. Unfortunately I also have 70 thousand + more pictures from Facebook and her wherever else she was surfing.

What I want to do is copy any file over 1 megabyte to a folder and ignore the rest. From what I saw anything she took with a camera is over 1MB in size.

Any ideas of a program that could do this?

DublinDilbert

Sort them by file size then just copy the top ones to a new folder. Might need to do a few thousand at a time.

You should also be able to write a batch/command file to do this too...

kleefarr

I agree with DublinDilbert. sorting by file size would be the easiest way.

Torqay

Experience the magic power of the mighty Total Commander.

Open the C drive (or your sisters user folder) in one pane, the go to Command > Search for *.jpg, open the Advanced tab, select File size larger than 1024 KB and click Start Search, When done, click Feed to Listbox. Now select all files in the listbox, open your target drive/folder in the opposite pane and copy (F5) the lot.

Now all JPGs larger than 1 MB on drive C, regardless their location have been copied to the one new folder. Simple as that.

TC is shareware, it will remain fully functional after the 30 days trial period.

swedex

I knew a batch file would do the trick, but I'm a point and click idiot and I wasn't too confident writing one. Photorec saved the images in a couple hundred folders, sorting by file size in each one probably would have taken me too long.

TC was perfect along with your instructions Torqay.

Cheers for the help.

Capt'n Midnight

robocopy has min and max options
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145%28v=ws.10%29.aspx