Delderby Loc: Derby UK

After uploading pics to win10 laptop from camera, I would like to copy all RAWs to one set of folders and all JPGs to another set - is this possible? If a simple procedure, how could I do it? or is there an app that can do it?
Thanks for any suggestions.

SnappyHappy Loc: Chapin, SC “The Capitol of Lake Murray”

Open file manager…select sort by file type…click on the first file of either format, hold shift key, click last file of same format…drag and drop into new folder…the do the same for the remaining file format.

Delderby Loc: Derby UK

Thanks VM - will give it a go.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

I do not think it is possible to do automatically while uploading from your camera to your PC. But, yes you can do it manually afterwards like SnappyHappy outlined. It works. And for say different Audio files too, such as WAV, mp3, FLAC, etc.

Just Fred Loc: Darwin's Waiting Room

Actually, there are ways to monitor a folder for changes and to automate an action based on detecting them. However, they are not simple point-and-click solutions, but require a certain amount of setup, and possibly programming.

PowerShell, Microsoft's "answer" to a scripting language can be used to do this. I hate PowerShell though, and wouldn't recommend it to my worst enemy. However, there are add-on programs, many of them free, that duplicate Apple's "folder actions" capability. You might check some out here: https://www.raymond.cc/blog/3-portable-tools-monitor-files-folders-changes/

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Downloader Pro will do it but it's Windows only.

You can set it up so that when you insert your card into your card reader the program launches. You can set up a template to download files. You give it a text string (which it calls a 'job code') that can be used to change the file name on download. I use a short text string descriptive of the shoot. You can select the files you want to download and within the template you can set up a location for the files. One of the template tags will allow you to place jpgs in one folder and raw files in another. I generally produce an empty folder with two subfolders, jpg and raw. After downloading, the edited files (mostly jpg) go to the empty folder. The files in the jpg and raw folders are the originals, which I don't touch beyond using them as the source for the edited images.

Once you set up the template, the downloading to separate folders is automatic.

When I go to back things up, I back up the initially empty folder. That includes the two subfolders so everything gets backed up at once.

I bought the program license more than a decade ago. Was about $30 then. Totally worth it.

Have not found a similar app for MacOS.

Just Fred Loc: Darwin's Waiting Room

I love a challenge! I just created this simple Windows command file (MOVEPIX.bat) you can modify with your own folder structure. If you want to automate it further, you can use Windows Task Scheduler to run it daily (hourly?).

@echo off
rem Run this via Window's scheduler program (hourly, daily, etc.) to automate the process
rem of moving RAW and JPG files to their respective folders.
rem
rem The example here uses the following folder structure:
rem
rem ├───TESTFLDR
rem │ ├───DOWNLOADS
rem │ ├───JPEGFILES
rem │ └───RAWFILES
rem
rem This script is located in the TESTFLDR level
rem
rem First, change to the download folder (here listed as DOWNLOADS, a subfolder)
rem
CD DOWNLOADS
rem
rem Now, move the files if any exist
rem
IF NOT EXIST *.RAW GOTO JPEG
MOVE %USERPROFILE%\TESTFLDR\DOWNLOADS\*.RAW %USERPROFILE%\TESTFLDR\RAWFILES
:JPEG
IF NOT EXIST *.JPG GOTO DONE
MOVE %USERPROFILE%\TESTFLDR\DOWNLOADS\*.JPG %USERPROFILE%\TESTFLDR\JPEGFILES
:DONE
CD ..
rem
ECHO "Move complete."

Delderby Loc: Derby UK

SnappyHappy, Iamiaceaea, Just Fred, Dirt Farmer - Thanks very much all - in the days of DOS it would have been a quick copy *. command. - But a GUI is still good.

hcmcdole

I use xcopy with wild cards.

For example:

xcopy E:\photos\*.jpg F:\photos\*.jpg /e /d /y

To do raw, you would use whatever the raw extension is in place of the "jpg" above.

You can put this into a batch file to eliminate typing if you use it over and over. Once it is created, you just have to double click on the batch file.

You have to open a command prompt (DOS shell) and type or copy and paste the above into the window. To open a command prompt, go to the run/search bar and type in cmd.

Delderby Loc: Derby UK

Thanks vm hcmcdole

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

If you use Lightroom Classic, it is also easy to do by selecting, dragging and dropping.

Delderby Loc: Derby UK

Thanks VM - unfortunately I don't use LR. What I'm looking to do is use a cmd prompt in windows to select all files of a particular type, which is what I did 30/40 years ago using DOS. Since then I've allowed the ease of using a GUI to take over, and my basic computer skills have suffered.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

The DOS stuff is still there but they call it the "Command Prompt". If you can remember what you did then, you can still do it!

Just Fred Loc: Darwin's Waiting Room

Because that dead horse hasn't moved yet, I thought I'd just throw in a couple of notes:

COPY is a built-in command. It will exist on your Windows computer regardless of version.
XCOPY is an external command. Thus, no guarantees that you'll have it on every computer
ROBOCOPY is an external command. If you truly want to geek out, type this at a command prompt: ROBOCOPY /?

Then, go back to COPY.

cahale Loc: San Angelo, TX

"View by Type" Select all of one type. Drag and drop to preferred other folder. Nothing simpler.