Convert in Sync

[chrisjj]

I have a procedure that I run after each update to a master media library, to sync the changes to slave libraries in different file formats, through a converter program.

Even with BC3 assistance for the IDing of the out-of-date files, it is painfully manual.

Is there any way to get BC3 Sync to go through my command-line converter?

[chrisjj]

Please?

[Zoë]

I can't see us doing that soon, but there might be other ways to make this easier. Can you give a little more detail what your update process is right now and how you use BC in it?

[chrisjj]

The update process is, each time:

1 Run BC Folder Compare to determine more-recent sources
2 Copy IDed filepaths into a text file
3 Global edit that file into a list format suitable for the converter's GUI
4 Import file list into the converter, and run.

What I'd like is

1 Once, configure a BC sync session with a converter command line
2 Each time, run that saved BC sync session

[Zoë]

I know what you'd like I think we've actually had at least one other request for something like this, but it isn't going to happen short term.

If I were doing this I'd create a script that had BC generate a plain text "Summary List" report, and then I'd use sed to modify the report into a batch file that called the converter for each file. You wouldn't get nice progress reporting and cancelability, of course, but you could wrap it all in a second batch file so it would be completely automated.

[chrisjj]

I think we've actually had at least one other request for something like this, but it isn't going to happen short term.

No problam - I'm patient! Esp. since I can see BC is not far off with its current external commands.

> If I were doing this I'd create a script that had BC generate a plain
> text "Summary List" report

Thanks - will try.

> and then I'd use sed to modify the report

Have done.

> You wouldn't get nice progress reporting and cancelability, of course

My bigger issue is the start-up overhead of the converter program - repeated for X,000 files - but I won't ask BC for the solution to that!