Syncing one main folder and subfolders to another folder and subfolders?

[justmike65]

This may be an "out there" type of question, but would it be possible to use Bridge scripting to sync folders and their contents?

For example, folder A has 500 images in at least 1 subfolder.

Folder B has the same 500 images in 20 subfolders. The images are not in order in folder A, but they are in folder B. Is there a way to have Bridge notice the hierarchy and syncronise A to B by creating subfolders and subsequently placing the images into the correct place?

[Muppet Mark]

In short the answer is yes… this is the kind of thing a Bridge script could do… Bridge does have inbuilt methods to move files… I think you would need to make clearer is *order* is this some kind of manual sort or other… that you need to maintain? What is different from just duplicating folder b to the location of folder a… There are also other alternatives to this a call to the system from bridge could perform an rsync this command has loads of options available…

[justmike65]

Muppet Mark wrote:

I think you would need to make clearer is *order* is this some kind of manual sort or other… that you need to maintain? What is different from just duplicating folder b to the location of folder a… There are also other alternatives to this a call to the system from bridge could perform an rsync this command has loads of options available…

These images will be manually put into folders, some new folders, and new metadata will have been written into the "title" field. The metadata will have been exported to a CSV, so, I will then need to copy that metadata into the original files. I need them in the order in which they were exported so I can run a script that will update the metadata.