Rad

I know one can use file manager programs to scan a folder, partition (drive), or whole disk with multiple partitions (drives) to find a specific file or use wild card place holders to find any file with a certain extension or matching string within a file name--but, it will take someone who has a lot more computer savvy then me to answer whether that can all be *scripted*.

But, the brief quote by the questioner raises questions (what's new!  ):

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Okay--Ghost 10 image files.

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I believe that's an option--Ghost 10 image files can be mounted and given a drive letter.  And, as stated above, any good file manager program should now be able to search that assigned drive letter.  (I've never used Ghost 10 and mounted an image file to assign a drive letter--what happens if the image is of multiple partitions?  Does each partition get assigned a drive letter?  Brian--are you looking in on this thread?)

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So, now the questions:

1.  Ghost 10 does not create *.gho* files.  That file extension is used in the old consumer Ghost versions that ended with Ghost 2003, and the Corporate versions of Ghost that is still available, but not at the consumer level.

*.gho* image file sets can be opened in *Ghost Explorer* and individual files and folders can be extracted and saved/restored to a specified destination--but I don't know if there is a *search* function  in Ghost Explorer--probably there is--I'll have to check that.  (Yes there is a *Find* function--but it finds only the first instance, and you have to do a *Find Next* function to go to the next instance.  Some *better* file manager programs will search and list *all* file/folders that match the search string.)

A Ghost image set (multiple *.gho files, or *.gho* plus *.ghs* files) can not be mounted in Windows and assigned a drive letter--so using Ghost Explorer is the only option for these Ghost files.

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Ghost images have to have a *source*--I'm assuming here that those digital photos stored in various places in Ghost 10 images means that the original source on the HDD have been deleted and are no longer available--yes?

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Are we talking about one backup Ghost file set with 30 files--or are we talking about 30 different Ghost Image file sets that may contain 1 or more files per backup image set?

If we are talking about 30 separate image backup *sets*--not just one image file set--are these Ghost images from a single source--or multiple sources.  If a single source--then the various backups will have *redundant* copies of the photos--so only need to search the most recent file set before the photos where *deleted* (?) from the source.

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If we are talking about *.gho* files--until the more recent Corporate versions of Ghost--*.gho* files were limited to 2 GB file sizes--a DOS limitation.  Using Ghost Explorer to extract large *video* files has been known to fail if a video file is stored across multiple *.gho* and/or *.ghs* files.  The work around here required restoring the image set with the large video file to a spare HDD, and then copying and/or moving the large file to a new location for use.

NightOwl

NightOwl wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2012 at 10:26am:


Each partition backup has it's own .v2i. I'd mount them one at a time.

I was concerned when I read about the .gho files as they can be created with Ghost 10 but not Ghost 9.

Rad

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It may be that color blindness may cause greater problems--but, I think the security code (aka Validation Code, or CAPTCHA) settings might be making things somewhat difficult as well. 

When I was testing deleting spam and spammers, I re-registered my deleted *test member*, and to tell you the truth--I had trouble getting the security code (aka Validation Code, or CAPTCHA) correct!  I think it took me 3 or 4 tries before I got it right!  (By the way, I'm not *color blind*--but, from testing I am mildly *color different* or *deficient*--I've been told that I shouldn't pick out clothes color combinations because I see colors *differently* than *color average or normal* folks  !  So, maybe my color different status is why I had trouble with the CAPTCHA entry as well! )

Looking in the Admin Center/Security Center/Security Settings/Validation Image tab--it looks like there are actual *colors* set for Validation Image Shade color and Background color.  That could, in theory, make the background and foreground colors have a *shade of grey* that a colorblind person would interpret as being the same--so possibly wipes out seeing the correct outline of the letters and numbers of the Validation Code.  That's how the most common *Color Blind Test*, the Ishihara Color Test works!

So, it's probably a combination of the two--the forum settings may be *difficult* to begin with, and the colors create shades of grey that are difficult to differentiate.

Also, I suspect the quality of the monitor may influence the results as well!

NightOwl

Can you read the numbers in the three images in the Dichromacy section?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness

My two sons have Protanopia but without the tests you would never know as they can identify all colors. My wife is "Color Blind" (that's unusual) and at times has had unusually colored clothes. 8% of males have a color defect.

Edit... My youngest son read that Verification Code easier than I could.

NightOwl

Here is an interesting article on color vision in other animals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_animals

Whales have only a single cone type and are thus monochromats.

okay, i changed the following setting from 2 to 1 (it goes from 0 to 9):

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