Copy random set of files to alternate location

[philg]

I don't THINK this is possible, but I am sure it would be a neat feature

I have a couple of digital photo frames and many (many) thousands of image files

What I would like to do is provide Xnview with a list of images (perhaps a folder or a group of folders) and ask it to RANDOMLY select images to a set number (or a set total size perhaps)

In other words "copy a RANDOM selection of images from <here> and fill this removal memory card <there>"

Make sense?

Cheers

Phil G

PS If this IS possible now, please tell me how - Thanks

[philg]

OK, been thinking about this, and actually it would be acceptable if you could just add an extension to the Edit.Select menu entry

Instead of just Select.None and Select.All you could have Select.Some leading to an additional dialog where you could define what "some" means. Could be random selection, could be files over a ceryain size, could have an additional limitation on number of files selected and/or total size selected THEN it would be a simple matter to copy the selected files to wherever they were wanted

It would also be useful if there was an option to read files from subfolders or just from the selected folder

Thanks

Phil G

PS Snag is, no one has made ANY comment on my original suggestion, so I am feeling it's not likely to get a high priority

[philg]

Well, a year has gone by with NO comments, so perhaps it's only me that would appreciate:

- An easy way to select a RANDOM selection of images from a folder (and subfolders_
- To enable those randomly selected images to then simply be copied to another location (memory card, digital photo frame, personal device)

Surely as more people get into digital photography this would be really useful

Even something as simple as an addition to the EDIT.SELECT/SELECT ALL would do (something like SELECT SOME with a further dialogue to define what "some" means - every nth image, or a random selection. Ideally with an upper limit in either number of images or total selected size

Is it REALLY just me that would like this???

Phil G

[JohnFredC]

For Total Commander users, there is a (free) metadata (wdx) plugin that generates a random number for each file and displays it in a column of the file list. One can then sort the column, set a filter on the column, use the column value in the batch renamer, etc, etc.

Perhaps this approach would work for you until XnView has a similar feature.