I'll tackle the easier-to-answer questions first... and respond to your comment/questions regarding the super confusing "IfAi" arguments in a separate post later when I have more time.
Did you try something like this? It works for me.
Remember that the argument
(I often use argument
Yes, "FE.", etc. are some of my camera names. Additionally, I often use the
Argument
You can easily use Windows Explorer to move or rename this folder. I often rename it to something like 'SingleFolder1", "singleFolder2" so I can gather different sets of images.
The reason I use a subfolder instead of dumping the images directly to the script's destination folder is because it makes it easier to manage image collections.
The script reads the memo of every alert in the database.
Did you try something like this? It works for me.
bi_dat_tool.ps1 -AlMemoTags "nothing" -NoInspectRemember that the argument
-AlMemoTags searches for ANY substring in the Alert's database memo value.(I often use argument
-NoInspect to return results faster because the script does not look inside the DAT file.)Argument
-Patterns searches for ANY substring the DAT file name, and returns/performs operations on only those DAT files.Yes, "FE.", etc. are some of my camera names. Additionally, I often use the
-Patterns argument to process a single DAT file. For example, to process only this DAT file "FE.20230922_180000.1515866.17-0.dat", I would try using -Patterns "1515866", instead of the harder to type -Files "FE.20230922_180000.1515866.17-0"Argument
-Patterns "FE.","FD.","GT", returns/processes DAT files for only for a ad-hoc group of 3 of my cameras.I'm a little confused. Argument
-SingleFolder already creates a subfolder named 'SingleFolder" in the script's destination folder (user setting $dest_path).You can easily use Windows Explorer to move or rename this folder. I often rename it to something like 'SingleFolder1", "singleFolder2" so I can gather different sets of images.
The reason I use a subfolder instead of dumping the images directly to the script's destination folder is because it makes it easier to manage image collections.
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