This seems to work--I've never programmed anything before (does
AppleScripting count), and I tweaked that just a little bit to
tell application "Finder"
duplicate selection to folder "Macintosh HD:Users:
[MyUser]:Pictures:Men"
end tell
When I used the previous script, it seemed to get stuck on
'TheSelection' (and I couldn't figure out what to replace it with).
Anyway, I've saved it as an application that stays open, and I've set
up QS triggers to as follows "Finder Selection:Open With:Male (this is
what I named the AppleScript application that will move the files to
the Male folder). That didn't really work... and I'm guessing it had
something to do with the fact that the QS trigger should be something
more like "FinderSelection:RunApplescript:Male" or even just
"RunAppleScript:Male" but I can't seem to make QS bring that up in the
window. I even tried installing the ExtraScript plugin... Any ideas?
Is it some sort of pref that I need to enable (like I had to do to
enable QS proxy settings)?
Also, I tried to search for file sorting apps, but most of those act
as filters, or sort without user input per each file--any suggestions
off the top of your head?
On Aug 18, 9:35 am, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
