Deleting Orphan Raw Images after JPEGs have been Removed

I have been looking for a quick and dirty solution for removing unwanted files that have been copied from a camera that creates both raw and jpg files for shot pictures.

The python script below is very useful when you are working on a computer where no advanced tool, such as Adobe Lightroom, are available. You can use a simple image viewer, such as the one provided by Gnome or Irfanview on Windows, and browse through your images in a folder removing all unwanted pictures (the jpg version).

The python script below moves all raw images ("*.CR2")  with no corresponding jpg ("*.JPG") version to a sub folder "deleted". You can check than of the deleted folder and remove them manually. Alternatively replace "shutil.move(file, './deleted')" with "os.remove(file)" if you want to have the files deleted instead of moved.

The file extension naming is the one used by Canon. A modified version for other cameras might be not that difficult to write.  

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	import os
	import glob
	import shutil
	path = "./"
	jpg_set = set()
	for file in glob.glob(os.path.join(path, "*.JPG")) :
	jpg_set.add(os.path.basename(file).split(".")[0])
	count = 0
	for file in glob.glob(os.path.join(path, "*.CR2")) :
	name = os.path.basename(file).split(".")[0]
	if not name in jpg_set:
	count += 1
	if not os.path.exists("./deleted") :
	os.mkdir("./deleted")
	shutil.move(file, "./deleted")
	print "number raw deleted: " + str(count)
	print "number jps: " + str(len(jpg_set))

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