Stacking based on identical filename

[kfeng]

Hello,

I currently have my files organized into portfolio collections, and within each collection, I would like to stack all the files with the same file name (e.g. image100.jpg, image100.jpg, image100.psd, image100.png would be stacked together). The issue is that a lot of these files with the same name are in different folders due to having different extensions, so I am confused on how to write a custom mask to capture all of these files.

I have tried using a stacking detection mask of %FileName*.* with different custom offset folder masks, but none of them work.

Any help is appreciated! Thank you.

[gcorbin]

I use versions to group different images in different formats (JPG and RAW) and stacks to group different but related images such as focus stacks. This is not the same as you, but is similar enough to be useful but unfortunately does not fully answer your question.

For my images, I import to the folder structure

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 %yyyy%mm%dd\%FileExtension\

Thus, my JPG and RAW images are stored in different subfolders under the date folder but the version detection still works versioning the RAW and JPG with the same filename with the settings

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Thus, the mask of %FileName*.* is correct for your need as it works for me with versions. The issue must be with the detection scope. “Parent Folder” works for images sharing the same parent folder, but I haven’t tried searching further afield.

Can you describe your folder structure. How far apart are the folders containing your stacks?

[kfeng]

Thank you for your response gcorbin! Unfortunately, my folder structure is pretty complicated. I have all my files stored on two SSD drives which I plug in when I need to make edits to the images. There are duplicate files across the two drives (I know it's not efficient, but there are too many to merge/clean up at this point -- hence why I'm looking for a stacking solution). Within each SSD there are multiple folders with multiple layers of subfolders, and there's no consistency with where the duplicate-named files are stored (ie. no common "parent")...

I see under "Detection Scope" that there is a Custom Folder option. Do you know if there is a way to set that to global or to the root SSD drive? Thank you for all your help!!

[gcorbin]

Firstly, you are not alone with your photos being a bit of a mess. While all my recent photos are nicely in date folders, my older photos are stored a few different ways so my photos are not all nicely arranged either. Some are also stored on my internal hard drive with the bulk on two different external hard drives which are only plugged in as required. The good thing is Photo Supreme deals with the underlying folder mess and within reason, it doesn't really matter how your photos are stored. If your photo storage is really too big a mess, Photo Supreme includes all the tools to clean everything up and store your photos in an orderly manner. See https://www.idimager.com/taming-the-photo-jungle

Back to your question, I haven't used Custom Folder option in anger but I believe that is what you require. I did a bit of a test and you select Custom Folder, you can then specify the custom folder explicitly such as "C:\Users\Graham\Pictures" or "D:\" or where ever you require Photo Supreme to check for duplicate files. Obviously, you can also use the macro functions together with the fixed folder text, but I suspect you just a fixed folder. You probably need identical file name "%FileName*.*" for the stacking detection mask but alter this if it is not what you require as you might even prefer "%FileName.*".

Configure your stacking configuration as above, select a few photos you know some have duplicate files and do a stack detection to see if it works as required.