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

On 6/22/25 8:16 PM, pH wrote:

I've got a pile of scanned family slides in various directories.
 They need to be further subdivided and catagorized so here's my scenario:
 1: I have directory 'A' full of jpgs.
 2: I make a few (3-5) suitable sub-directories in that directory.
   (eg: "pets" "cars" "ski_trip" etcetera)
 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
 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.
 So that's one way.
  Another way might be a program to go through and let me 'tag' the pics of
interest (just one topic) and when at
the end move all the tagged pics to the sub-dir of choice.  But this way
would require (possibly) lots of passes through the source dir picking out a
category each time...not the end of the world, of course.
  Was I clear enough?  Any suggestions?
 Pureheart in Aptos
 This is not a horrible or urgent problem.  A typical directory that I want
to split up might have 300 entries.

   Look into "hashing" ... it is often used for placing
   records in database systems. Relatively simple variants
   can be coded.