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Move photo files based on photo names in text file

I have a list of photos that contains the names of photos that I would like to separate from a large directory of photo files. Since this would be a time consuming project to perform by hand I would like to automate the process with Coldfusion. What I want to do is put together a Coldfusion script that when run will look at the photo names in a text file and then check to see if they are present in the master photo directory. If a photo listed in the list is found in the photo directory Coldfusion would then copy each photo it finds to a new directory. Does anyone have code that could perform this task?

Here is a sampling of photo names in the text files and the photo names match exactly the photo names in the master photo directory.

_agx_

Did you accidentally omit the sampling in the original post?

CalDev

ASKER

Yes I did thank you for pointing it out.

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CalDev

ASKER

Another home run! Worked perfectly and I really like the reporting feature you added, that was a big plus!
Again this one worked perfectly the very first time. I was amazed how fast I was able to process over 1400 files even on our slow local network. Thanks so much!

CalDev

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Very useful code for verifying and separating files. It is so well written that I believe it could be easily modified to perform other file tasks.

_agx_

Yes, for moderate size files it does pretty well :)

_agx_

Btw, I'm sure you noticed it does a "copy" of the files, not a "move". I think is what you wanted. If you wanted to "move" the files instead, change the code to

<cffile action="move" ...>