Move files from parent folder to correct subfolder with same file names

Hi shavarfieldstone

I have divided my answers and tips into 3 parts. You can get more detailed help for your own applescript creation in the Macscripter forum (https://www.macscripter.net).

To place or move image files into subfolders, you can use the script from Hilfdirselbst.ch as a starting point (Part 1). With an additional script command you can then also overwrite existing images. In the current script, a new subfolder is simply created.

With NameMangler you can use a lot of renaming options that e.g. a "NameChanger" does not have (Part 3). The purchase of this program is really worth it.

Part 1:

Image-matching-with-applescript

Part 2:

Encapsulate files in folder with the same name

Part 3:

Add-filename-with-folder-name

Hi shavarfieldstone

You have a folder B with 5000 images, which were converted and a folder A, with various subfolders, where the old images are.

Wouldn't it be easier in your case, if you first remove all subfolders in folder A with the Automator or an Applescript, then copy the new images from folder B into folder A and overwrite them, and finally create subfolders again manually or e.g. with an Applescript?

Otherwise the execution of the script will take too long, if you have to query all subfolders for each image file first, where the duplicate would be located. Of course this is possible, but cumbersome.

When resolving all subfolders, you still have to catch the case that images can have the same name and then have to rename them.

By means of the tool Hazel you can already simplify a lot. https://www.noodlesoft.com/manual/hazel/advanced-topics/processing-subfolders/.

You can delete all subfolders in a folder with this script: https://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=34633