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

On 2025-06-23, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

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

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

That sounds slick.  My pics are not labeled w/ nice identifying text;
it's all stuff like "dscn3334.jpg" and so on

pH