Selecting files based on a spreadsheet list

[beepbeepvd]

Hi everyone,

I have a folder containing 44,000 web images, and I have a spreadsheet list of about 2,000 files that I need to drag or duplicate into a new folder.

Does anyone know of software or an app that would automatically select those 2,000 images so that I don't have to do it individually by hand?

Thanks!

 

[r0k]

Hi everyone,

I have a folder containing 44,000 web images, and I have a spreadsheet list of about 2,000 files that I need to drag or duplicate into a new folder.

Does anyone know of software or an app that would automatically select those 2,000 images so that I don't have to do it individually by hand?

Thanks!

I find shell scripts to be useful in situations like this. I would export the list of files to a plain text file. I create a folder called newfolder and then in Terminal I would do something like:

for f in 'cat names.txt' 
do
cp $f newfolder
done

I'm not in front of my Mac so I can't easily check the syntax but this is the basic approach.

Another approach is to use applescript.

 

[beepbeepvd]

Thanks for the help! I'm going to give that a try.