Orphaned sidecars or buddies

[flubber]

Hi!

Seems I'm totally lost in the regex and its recall (\1. . .\9) matches. [sigh]

Given the following samples:
Original file: <path>\<filename>.tif
Buddy file: <path>\buddies\<filename>.tif.jpg

"buddies" is a fixed folder name.

How can I find all buddy files that without an existing original file?

Is there a way to display the content of recall matches?

Thanks for reading, flubber

[therube]

Do you need regex: particularly?

Can you just add !\buddies to your search (in combination with regex:, if needed)?

See also, viewtopic.php?p=54095#p54095

[flubber]

Hi!

This seems to work:

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ext:tif.jpg \buddies\ regex:^(.*\\[^\\]+)\\(.*)\\(.*)(\.[^/.]+)$ !fileexists:\1\\\3

regex101 was very helpfull: https://regex101.com/r/8py4PC/1

Group 1 and group 3 are used to build the fileexists expression. Took me quite some time with lots of try and error

Thanks for reading, flubber