QS is probably not the right tool for the job—right now it has
problems like this that stem basically from being a little bit
unstable and slow. AppleScript will be a better solution. Use this
script:
tell application "Finder"
set TheSelection to selection
duplicate TheSelection to folder "Macintosh HD:Users:
[YourUser]:Pictures:Men"
end tell
replacing, of course, [YourUser] with your username and Pictures:Men
with whatever path you want from there. That whole string is a colon-
delimited path, which is what AppleScript uses internally for some
reason. Slashes won't work. Save as "Men.scpt" to ~/Library/
Scripts. Duplicate the script and change Men to Women, again for
Group, or whatever. You want three different scripts, each to move to
a different place and named for which one they move to.
...Dang it, the script menu doesn't accept shortcuts, so the stuff I'd
had above about using the Script menu won't work. You can still do
it, though. In the Save dialog in Script Editor, select "File Format:
Application." Check "Stay Open" so it won't have to reopen itself
every time. Then make a QS trigger to run that application. What
that does is it hands off the getting-of-current-selection to the
Finder AppleScript engine, which is fast, instead of leaving it with
the QS Proxy Object system which is very slow (and unreliable).
Hopefully that will make it file things correctly, but you still may
have to go a little bit slower than you'd like.
If that doesn't work, look into some other application for running the
scripts and/or a file-sorting app, which I bet exist.
On Aug 15, 2:19 pm, Aksekili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello
> I'm sorting through a massive library of images. The first pass is to
> put pictures of men in one folder, pictures of women in another, and
> pictures of multiple people into another folder. I'm trying to use
> Quicksilver to do this as quickly as possible (minimizing keystrokes
> and not using the moue at all). My first approach was to set up
> triggers using F1, F2, and F3 to use 'selected item in finder' 'move
> to' and then the destination folder's path. This worked okay, but I
> didn't use it for long because it would take me out of the folder that
> I was sorting through. I then switched the 'move to' to 'copy item
> to' and after going through about 200 images, I would just copy those
> images into a folder called 'AlreadySorted.' This seemed to work good
> too, however, when I start going fast, it sometimes starts placing
> them in the wrong folders. If I quickly sort through 2 images (I just
> look at the image preview in finder using column view) that end up
> going to the same place, many times when I hit the trigger for the
> second file, it will recopy the first file (and I'll get a message
> from quicksilver asking me if I want to replace the original). When I
> check in the destination folder, it hasn't even copied over the second
> file. Admittedly, I'm trying to work very quickly here--but that's
> why I set up Quicksilver to let me press down and a button and down
> and a button and so on... Whenever I get that message from
> quicksilver, I have to command tab over to QS hit enter for yes and
> then cmnd tab back to Finder. Not that big of a deal, but its GBs and
> GBs of Jpegs (yes, I know--this will take forever and a day--I looked
> at hooking this up somehow to Mechanical Turk but i was in way over my
> head).
> Thanks in advance
> D
> Oh yeah, I'm on a 933 MHz PPC g4 with 1.25 ram and OS 10.4.11... I
> thought that'd be plenty for this job.
