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

On 2025-06-23, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-06-23, pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> wrote:
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On 2025-06-23, Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> wrote:
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I would use xv (by John Bradley) for that. It used to be in most Linux
distros, but does not seem to be anymore.  More information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xv_(software)

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I remember xv (and used it and loved it). I had wondered where it went. 
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The little swimming fish time-passing sprite was cool.
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Thanks for the tip.

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I still use xv whenever possible.  Apparently, though, I never
tapped its full potential.
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Unfortunately, xv cannot display progressive JPEGs,
making it useless for a growing percentage of pictures.
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Here's a thought, though - if a group of photos was taken in the
same time frame (e.g. that ski trip), you could bring them up
in a file manager (e.g. thunar).  The camera probably assigned
them a consecutive block of file names; if not, and the date
stamps are intact, you could sort the list by date to group
the files together.  That makes it easy to select a single
block of photos to cut and paste.
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Good thought.  These are old slides that I scanned, though. The only info
for them is my feeble memory.  But I'll keep that trick in mind.

pH