Image Sorting Application

[Emasher]

Over the last few hours I've been working on an application designed to aid in going through large folders full of images and sorting them into other folders or sub folders. I'm basically at this point just looking for some testing. I've used it a few times and its worked alright, but I have no idea how well it will working in other operating systems, etc.

 

If anyone's interested, here's the file:

 

Link

 

 

EDIT:

 

Version 1.1 is now available.

 

Updates:

 

You can now create a new folder directly in the application (see notes)

PNG files are now fully supported.

Non animated gifs are fully supported, Animated gifs will work, but only the first frame will be in the new file.

 

Notes:

 

Creating a new folder:

 

Click "New Folder".

Select the folder that you want the new folder to be in and press "Ok"

Type in the name of the new folder and press "Ok".

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Only jpgs, gifs, and pngs are supported.

When an image is deleted or moved in the Mac Version it will appear in "Trash".

The program has only officially been tested in Mac OS X 10.6.4

 

Known Bugs (Version 1.1):

 

Only the first frame of animated Gifs will be copied or moved.

 

Images that are deleted (or the old images, when the images are moved) in Windows 7 will be deleted directly and will not show up in the Recycling Bin.

 

If you press "cancel" on the choose folder dialog that comes up, the application will crash.

 

Specifying a folder that doesn't exist doesn't create a new folder.

 

Known Bugs (Version 1.0):

 

Transparent PNG files and Animated Gifs are known not to move or copy properly. Be very cautious if you try to use this to move or copy any pngs or any gifs.

 

If you press "cancel" on the choose folder dialog that comes up, the application will crash.

 

Images that are deleted (or the old images, when the images are moved) in Windows 7 will be deleted directly and will not show up in the Recycling Bin.

 

Specifying a folder that doesn't exist doesn't create a new folder.

 

If anyone finds a bug, it would be helpful if you could include what OS you're running if you post it.

Edited December 8, 2010 by Emasher

[Sméagol]

It worked.

If you want me to try out specific actions, let me know.

I find the interface lacking, but I guess that hasn't been your priority now .

 

[..]

 

Future Updates:

 

The next update will have a button to add a new folder to sort images into rather than just using an already existing one.

 

[..]

Oh except I read over this.. The button's already there, but it doesn't work.

You made me lose my porn you ass! XD

[Emasher]

The Add folder button that's currently there is to add a folder to the list of folders that you want to place files in.

Any content you delete should show up in your trash/recycling bin.

 

And you'd be right, I haven't spent much time on the interface.

Thanks for testing it though.

[Sméagol]

They're not there! My sweet, sweet porn :'(. :p

 

What I did was, I clicked on the button, then typed a new folder name, expecting it to create it, then selected it as the folder I wanted to move the pics to, click move, and then they were gone. I think they just disappear (I'd love to know where to though.. Don't want them stuck in my memory or something).

 

Again, if you want me to check something specific.. Let me know.

[Emasher]

Actually, that bit of information was more the sort of thing I was looking for. Thanks. What OS are you running?

[Sméagol]

Windows 7 64 bit. Anything else?

[Emasher]

No, that's it. Thanks for your time.

[Sméagol]

No problem. I'll take a look if you have a new version.

[jayseven]

Just wondering - how does it sort? Arranges by date, I'd presume? If you had made this four years ago I'd've been very pleased - went through and sorted over 400 pictures into a bunch of sub-files. Took me a couple of days >_<

[Emasher]

Its alphabetical at the moment. At some point I'm probably going to put in an option to go through them by date.

 

Edit:

 

The new version is up. The details are in the OP.

[Sméagol]

Quick thing:

It's similar to the first problem.

When you click the option to create a folder ("new folder" that is), you are able to specify a non-existent folder to create the new one in, which in that case won't be created. But is is still selectable as an option, and images moved there disappear.

 

(I guess more of an interface thing though, and easily corrected by a "folder does not exist" prompt)

[Emasher]

How were you able to select a non-existant folder?

[Sméagol]

Simply by typing. You click the "new folder" button (but it also still works for the "add folder" button), then you need to specify which folder you want to create the new folder in (or which folder you want to add in the other case).

The thing is, you can type anything you want in here. I assumed this would immediately create the folder, so I typed a new foldername after the address that was already selected. But then it asks for the name of the folder to be created. Anyway, to make it clear what I did:

 

1] start app, select "E:\\images\miscellaneous\"

2] the images show up, I click "add folder"

3] I type "E:\\images\miscellaneous\test" in the textfield

4] then you get the prompt. I type "test"

5] No folder gets created, because "E:\\images\miscellaneous\test" doesn't exist yet, and that's where it wants to create a new "test" folder, (attempting to create "E:\\images\miscellaneous\test\test" in this case)

6] The folder isn't created, but does show up in the menu on the right

7] moving a test.jpg images to "test", the image disappears

 

Obviously, you intended for people to type an existing directory right away, but this wasn't clear to me. I know now, but it's still possible to make a typing error (and not be aware of it), and you'd be moving images to a folder that isn't created. Like I said, a simple check in step 3 to check if the folder exists stops the problem.

Edited December 8, 2010 by Sméagol

[Emasher]

I think I understand now. To be honest, I haven't tested the application properly in Windows, and the OS X version of that dialog doesn't have the text field on it, so I'm not surprised I overlooked it. It should be fixed for 1.2.

 

Just to be clear, if you move an image to folder that does exist, does the image appear in the recycling bin?

Edited December 8, 2010 by Emasher

[Sméagol]

I don't have OSX to see the difference unfortunately.

And no, when I move an image to an actually existing folder, the image is moved there like it's supposed to be, so it's in the specified folder. I haven't seen any images show up in my recycle bin, but I have not tried out the "remove" function.

 

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edit:

When I click the remove button, the image is simply gone, but not moved to the recycle bin. I don't know if that's your intention or not.

[Emasher]

Thanks. I don't actually have any code to specify where it goes after its deleted, file deletion is handled by the OS, so for the most part, I just have to go with whatever the OS wants me to do or risk stuff getting broken by OS updates.