Looking For A Specific Solution - Two Larger Directories Into One

I need a solution that can take two given directories, take random files from each and create a new, smaller directory.

For example Directory "Photos 2011" has 500 pictures in it and "Photos 2012" has 200 pictures.

I would like the program to randomly choose files from each directory and create a directory of those random files into another directory.

To say the least, googling for this is unwieldy. So I'm hoping someone may have needed this solution before and used a particular tool they can recommend.

This can probably be done via a batch file and there are some forum members that could throw something together for you - maybe they will stop by your thread and help you out. In the mean time, you might want to start learning a scripting language (like AutoIt3 or AutoHotKey) so you can cobble some together some code of your own for this task.

Sounds perfect. I love trying to write up something...always finding ways to make my admin life easier. If it can be done with a .bat I could probably figure it out.

Thanks!

Norwood said:

...If it can be done with a .bat I could probably figure it out....

The 3rd post here shows the use of random.

Kaktussoft said:

Why copy some random files from 2 folders to new folder?

Why not?

Random Example:

Directory A has REM's discography. About 300,000,000,000 songs.
Directory B has Grateful Dead's discography. Nearly 400,000,000,000 songs.

Instead of picking files individually, pressing Ctrl C, navigating to Directory C and pressing Ctrl V (or even dragging and dropping) it would be much easier to automate it.

Did you have a solution, or did you just want to know what I was doing?

If artist A has 400 songs and artist B has 11...I don't want those two mixed together.

Not an even mix...or in the industry "enough artist separation".

A script can handle it fine.