Re: Need help sorting images.

Is this on Windows?

In Windows Explorer add "Date Picture Taken" to the columns of the
file list.

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Joan
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"Rudy Benner" <total@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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: "ASAAR" <caught@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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: > On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:43:23 -0500, Rudy Benner wrote:
: >
: >> I have been asked to sort a lot of images into subfolders based
on the
: >> creation date of the original files. I had hoped that Adobe
Bridge would
: >> have a method of doing this task, I have not been successful.
: >
: > Do you want to sort a lot of images and then copy or move them
: > *into* subfolders? Or are they already in subfolders and you want
: > to sort them as if they were already in a single folder? The
reason
: > for asking is that the latter should be pretty straightforward,
but
: > the former would require some complicated rules for identifying
: > where image files should be moved into, unless it's based on the
: > actual names of the files. If it's the latter, this is the kind
of
: > job that unix "tool" utilities do well. If the number of files
was
: > huge, I'd probably create a text file containing the filenames and
: > paths and either sort it using a field based general purpose sort
: > program, or parse the text file using a quickie program to get it
: > into good enough shape so that it could then be easily sorted
either
: > by a spreadsheet or by the rather dumb sort.exe utility provided
: > with every version of DOS and Windows that I'm aware of, by
: > Microsoft. I don't know about Vista, but I see that there's a
: > version of it in XP's \Windows\system32 subdirectory.
: >
: > BTW, one of the unix tools for handling sorted duplicates is the
: > "uniq" program that's often run in conjuntion with sort. For a
free
: > windows based program that can create a sorted text file
containing
: > all or selected files contained within subfolders, you could
: > download the Directory Printer app. from Karen's Power Tools
: > website. You'd still want a tool such as uniq to handle duplicate
: > files, but with a sorted filelist, a quick&dirty program could
: > instead be used to easily produce a list of just the duplicates.
: >
: > http://www.karenware.com/
: >
:
: The files were already in subfolders. Each day's images was sent by
FTP to
: my server.
:
: Because two cameras were used and one camera was left on PDT, things
got
: even more complicated.
:
: At some point, one of the cameras file counter was reset, resulting
in
: duplicate file numbers. Fortunately, the dups are in different
folders,
: hence no conflict up until now.
:
: I have renamed the duplicate files to prevent further errors.
:
: I will separate the files from the two cameras, then I will sort the
files
: into different directories by date created. Tedious.
:
: Thanks for the help.
:
:

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