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September 19, 2017
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Select (or move) all images that contain a (Photoshop)path

  • September 19, 2017
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Is it possible, in a folder with lets say 50 images or so, to easily select all images that contain a (Photoshop)Path (and move/copy them to an other folder) without having to open all images in Photoshop and check manually if it contains a path or not?

I really like to be able to see if a image contains a path without opening it in Photoshop.

It doesn't matter if it's a Work Path, Clipping Path or just a single dot of a path.

Is this possible in Bridge or in an other way (on Windows)?

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Correct answer Stephen Marsh

Here is an ExifTool conditional command that will look for a Work Path or a Saved Path/Clipping Path and add an Adobe Bridge label of “Review” to the files that have this path information. If you don’t wish to add a Bridge label, one could add a rating such as 5 Stars, or perhaps add other metadata such as a Keyword. It would also be possible to move the images to another directory instead of adding label/rating/keyword or other metadata. This command will overwrite original images and will process all valid files in all sub folders under the main top level folder path. Work on copied files until you are confident of the results.

exiftool -overwrite_original -if '$workingpath' -label='Review' -execute -overwrite_original -if '$originpathinfo' -label='Review' -common_args -u -r '/Mac OS/Path/to/Top level folder'

For Windows OS users, simply change the straight single quote marks to straight double quotes and change the folder path at the end to a valid system path.

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September 20, 2017

Here is an ExifTool conditional command that will look for a Work Path or a Saved Path/Clipping Path and add an Adobe Bridge label of “Review” to the files that have this path information. If you don’t wish to add a Bridge label, one could add a rating such as 5 Stars, or perhaps add other metadata such as a Keyword. It would also be possible to move the images to another directory instead of adding label/rating/keyword or other metadata. This command will overwrite original images and will process all valid files in all sub folders under the main top level folder path. Work on copied files until you are confident of the results.

exiftool -overwrite_original -if '$workingpath' -label='Review' -execute -overwrite_original -if '$originpathinfo' -label='Review' -common_args -u -r '/Mac OS/Path/to/Top level folder'

For Windows OS users, simply change the straight single quote marks to straight double quotes and change the folder path at the end to a valid system path.

TrimMarkAuthor
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September 21, 2017

Thank you for your effort!
I'll look in to it more closely today (hopefully) and come back to this.
This sounds really promising