glean helps you remove files corresponding to removed reference files.

A simple usage case

I take photos in both JPEG and RAW formats and my typical workflow looks like follows:

1. review photos in JPEG (because it's much faster than cycling through RAW files)
2. remove all bad photos in JPEG which I don't like
3. then remove RAW files that have names matching the removed JPEG files (e.g. 1.jpeg and 1.raw)

The third step is a bit annoying to do manually, so I built glean to do this for me automatically.

With glean the same workflow looks like follows:

1. create a configuration file for glean (only once)
2. remove all bad photos in JPEG
3. run glean and it will automatically remove all corresponding RAW files

Configuration

In order to minimize chances of accidentally removing valuable files, glean requires you to create a configuration file.

If you run glean from a directory which has a file called glean.yaml, it will automatically use this file as a configuration.

Otherwise, you have to tell it where to look for this file like follows: glean --config=../relative/path/to/glean.conf

Configuration Syntax

glean expects configuration files to be in YAML format.

A configuration file should look like this:

---
ref_dir: . # should be relative to a directory from where you run `glean`. `.` means "current directory"
ref_ext:
    - .jpeg
    - .jpg

target_dir: . # should be relative to a directory from where you run `glean`. `.` means "current directory"
target_ext:
    - .nef
    - .raw
    - .dng

ref_dir - where are your reference files located
ref_ext - a list of "reference" file extensions

target_dir - where to look for corresponding files to be removed
target_ext - a list of extensions of the corresponding files

WARNING

glean does not ask for confirmation and it does not put anything into the "Trash". If you made a mistake and it removed pictures of your 1 yo daughter, I'm really sorry but also don't be upset with me 🙈

License

glean is an open-source software and licensed under the MIT License.