Select (or move) all images that contain a (Photoshop)path

[TrimMark]

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)?

[Stephen Marsh]

Re: Script to Sort Images with/without Clipping Paths?

Script to determine if an image has a photoshop work path or saved path

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Paul-Riggott/PS-Scripts/master/Clipping%20path%20names%20to%20coll...

Re: Script to Sort Images with/without Clipping Paths?

Script to Sort Images with/without Clipping Paths?

This should also be possible using ExifTool (I’ll post the commands later).

[Stephen Marsh · Accepted solution]

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.

[TrimMark]

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

[Stephen Marsh]

The paths to collections scripts don’t seem to work, so I think that this script is probably the best bet:

Script to Sort Images with/without Clipping Paths?

However in my tests, it only worked correctly on PSD files for clipping paths or saved paths. It did not work for unsaved work paths or for non PSD files such as TIFF that contained any form of path.

The ExifTool command works correctly on all tested file types and path types and is a lot easier to change than scripting code!

[Stephen Marsh]

The ExifTool Mac OS code to move the files containing paths to two new sub-folders (Photoshop Work Paths or Photoshop Saved Paths) is:

exiftool -if '$workingpath' -directory=%d'Photoshop Work Paths' -execute -if '$originpathinfo' -directory=%d'Photoshop Saved Paths' -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.