Hello Bob, Thursday, September 16, 2004, 7:11:01 PM, you wrote:
> If the main folder and 13 sub folders remain constant, then write and > action that applies your action as a batch run on each specific folder > and specify a specific output folder. In other words your writing one > action that essentially is simply recording calls to batch existing > actions with different source and output for each batch. Does that > make sense? It's a bit of a pain to setup the first time but if you're > applying the same action to the same sets of folders over and over > you'll save a lot of time and aggravation over the long run. Actually following on from this file, I have a tiny utility I got from a magazine called SWEEP. I use it several times a year, and for some tasks it is superb. The idea is you put it in the same directory at the head of the directory tree you are working on, and make it into a dos command (Which in any form of windows may be more easily done by making a little batch file) So for example if you wanted to move all the jpegs from a given directory, and all its subdirectories to place them all in one new directory, you would move sweep to c:\givendirectory, get in command prompt, go to c:\givendirectory and run: sweep move *.jpg to c:\newdirectory It's great for weeding things out. For example if you have a directory called Photos2004, with many subdirectories, as I have, and I want to get rid off all the tiffs I have worked on, (while keeping Jpegs purely for record keeping purposes - [no, don't ask]), I would type: sweep del *.tif and all subdirectories would have tiffs contained therein deleted. If anyone would like this little program please e mail me donuk [ at ] tesco.net If anyone knows of a Windows equivalent, please let me know. Don Lodge =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
