how to select "every other" file in a folder
 

Say you have a folder with 3,000 pictures in it and every 2 pictures are the same. The filenames are all in order, but i need to select "every other" file in the folder somehow.

example of filenames:

http://old.occash.com/misc/samplelist.jpg

basically, sierra050 and sierra051 are identical.

there are about 3k files which are really only 1500 files. How can i "select every other" freaking file?

YARGH! try this?

http://www.dupehunter.com/en/dh/index.html

ctrl + click

1,500 times?????

when of course i would slip somwhere along the way and have to start all over again??? good luck on that one.


there's gotta be a way.

YARGH! 3000 files! um no...

thanks dude.. going to check this out, not sure if its what i need but i will be sure aand let ya'll know.

can't remember for the life of me exactly how but there should be a command line way of setting up a template where you could select all the even ending or odd ending numbers in the filename sequence if that triggers anything for anyone

i was thinkign maybe something to do with odds/evens, but i cant think of anything that would do even that.....

some kind of simple command line im sure....

winblows

nope....

if they are exactly the same why are they different sizes ? Thats gonna be hard to tell

you could always show icons and make the explorer window 2 icons wide

by the time you find a program that will do it for you, you could have just done it manually.

i just explained heres how

http://fullofbologna.com/smokey/captured.jpg

That's what I was thinking too. Then just select one column and delete.

I have one suggestion. This particular shareware program has a button that lets you auto-select every other image from a list of images that it would normally download from a web page. Maybe if you made a local html page containing links to all the files, let it select every other one and then "download" them to another folder. Think that should work in just a few steps. http://picturedownloader.mihov.com/

do you understand ganja :) it was the weed that made me figure that out. pretty simple eh.

YARGH!!! Sorry it didn't work.

YARGH! You be one smart cookie. :) Weed, or not.

such a simple solution. heh..

i actually remembered a time i had to do this too and suddenly remembered the solution :)

you're brilliant. that just may work.

they are exactly the same pics but diff sizes possibly cuz the program must have captured 2 pictures every "x" amount of seconds... i cant tell with the naked eye.

it will work , i just tried it again to test :thumbsup

worked like a fuckin' charm bro.

you rock!

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