Image collecting question

[jdbnsn]

Does anyone know a good way to collect photos from many subdirectories and pool them all into a single folder? I saw something about picaso but maybe someone here knows a better way. I have a folder with hundreds of folders within and each sub folder has images that I want to collect into one folder without opening and dragging each one at a time.

[OvRiDe]

Probably your easiest bet is Windows Search. Go to the root of the top level folder that contains all the images/subdirs of image and search for "*.jpg". Once the Search is complete, use a "Ctrl+A" so select all the results, then "Ctrl+X" to cut those results. Go create your new folder, and "Ctrl+V" to paste it. If you have more then one image type ie. png, gif, etc etc... then just repeat the process for those file types. Voila! You should be left with a single dir with all your pics.

[xr4man]

that's what i was going to suggest too, but i didn't know the shortcut key for "cut".

[jdbnsn]

Dude, you are like the Yoda of PC knowledge! Thanks Curtis.

[Airbozo]

Jon, you calling Curtis short and ugly?

[crenn]

Jon, you calling Curtis short and ugly?

Hey, don't make Yoda mad!

[x88x]

#!python
import os
import sys
import shutil

srcdir = sys.argv[1]
destdir = sys.argv[2]

extensions = ['jpg','jpeg','png','gif','bmp']

def copyfile(source, dest):
	if(os.path.exists(source)):
		shutil.copy(source,dest)

def cleanpath(path):
	if(path[-1] != "\\"):
		path = path + "\\"
	return path

def treecopy(dir):
	dir = dir.strip()
	dir = cleanpath(dir)
	srcdir = cleanpath(srcdir)
	
	contents = os.listdir(dir)
	max = len(contents)
	pos = 0
	while(pos < max):
		entry = contents[pos]
		if(os.path.isfile(dir + entry)):
			for ext in extensions:
				if(entry[entry.rindex(".")+1:].lower().find(x.lower()) > -1):
					source = srcdir + entry
					copyfile(source,destdir)
		elif(os.path.isdir(dir + entry)):
			subdir = os.listdir(dir + entry)
			for each in subdir:
				each = entry + "\\" + each
				contents.append(each)
				max += 1
		pos += 1

treecopy(destdir)

EDIT:
Actually, that would have just copied all the files. Fixed to only copy specified extensions.

EDIT2:
BTW, if using on a unix-like system, replace the "\\" characters with "/".

[jdbnsn]

Jon, you calling Curtis short and ugly?

no no no not at all, you misunderstood my intentions. I just meant that he a very in-depth knowledge of the computer force, a way with words, ...and a very trademark managerial style...

[Oneslowz28]

Jon, you calling Curtis short and ugly?

Well Curtis is short and ugly.

I do think it was wrong to insult him like that though.....











Yoda I mean.

[OvRiDe]

You guys better not be calling me green.