Re: Program to dole out jpg's to subdirctories, card-dealing style.

On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:16:08 -0000 (UTC), pH wrote:

I've got a pile of scanned family slides in various directories.
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They need to be further subdivided and catagorized so here's my
scenario:
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1: I have directory 'A' full of jpgs.
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2: I make a few (3-5) suitable sub-directories in that directory.
  (eg: "pets" "cars" "ski_trip" etcetera)
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3: Is there a program that will display a thumbnail of a jpg (or any
size, I guess) and list the subdirectories somewhere on the screen,
1 - pets 2 - cars 3 - ski trip
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Then display a pic, ask me for a # and move the jpg to that
corresponding sub-dir (maybe with a prompt) with <CR>/<SPC> to just
leave it where it is. Q or ESC to quit.

I wrote a script <https://bitbucket.org/ldo17/SortPictures> mainly for
my own use, for quickly sorting through images in the way that you
mention, among many others. It’s not really GUI-based: you launch it
from the command line, and specify custom keystrokes for the actions
you want to perform, e.g. to sort images from the “unsorted” directory
into others:

    SortPictures --move=c:cars/ --move=p:pets/ --move=s:ski\ trip/ unsorted/

Then press “c”, ”p” or “s” as appropriate for each picture, or of
course you can leave it unsorted and go to the next one.