script for matching and moving files

[rbanogon]

Hello, Scripting Experts!

Let me start by saying that I don’t know anything about scripting, but I thought it’d be worth a shot to see if someone can enlighten me. I’m a photo assistant, not a scripter.

In our photo studio, we’re shooting with a camera that simultaneously creates RAW files and JPEGs, with identical fileneames excepting their extension. Filenames look like this. . . “_W3E0227.JPG” and “_W3E0227.CR2”.

What we do is edit thousands of images using the lo-res JPEGs in Photoshop’s Image Browser, and then move them into a folder, for sake of argument called “Edited JPEGs.” Then, we go back and find the corresponding RAW files and move those into a similarly named folder, “Edited RAW Files” for example. Then we delete the rest of the JPEGs and RAWs.

My question is, can we write a script that will read what’s in the Edited JPEGs folder and automatically move the corresponding RAW files to the Edited RAW Files folder?

Thanks for any help!

Cheers,

Rey

[Ray_Barber]

you probably want to read up on folder actions, which you can find more info on in the folder actions section of the applescript help files. creating a script and attaching it to a folder means you would be able to have finder check whenever a file is added to the edited jpg folder, search for the filename in the edited raw folder, and the delete it. good luck!