selecting even or odd numbered files

I've got hundreds of files with the following naming scheme: "IMG_0001, IMG_0002," etc.

I need to select every other file ONLY... or just odd or even numbered files. Is there any way to achieve this on my Mac?

I've looked around a great deal and can't find a solution to this.

2 x 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 16GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Dec 3, 2010 7:32 AM

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Dec 8, 2010 9:51 AM in response to Whitecity

Whitecity,

I've been making time-lapses and often have around 2000 high resolution DNG files. I recently made a mistake, where every other photograph had a slightly different exposure and needed to be moved to a separate folder. Manually selecting every other photograph was ridiculously tedious. I figured someone must have created some shareware for this, but it appears that no one has. Luckily, Martin Pace has come up with a creative solution that works great! See above.

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