The Specify Attachment Parser is a Java based command line tool that compares a file system directory to attachments in Specify and identifies the files not present in Specify.
The tool will optionally copy the identified files to a target directory. The tool also accepts a regular expression to match or exclude files from source directory.
We wrote the parser becasuse we had a directory with 3k+ images, of which an unknown number were attached in Specify. Using the Specify attachment...