The quickest way to introduce yourself to NH's PictureSort is to use this program. Due to the program's flexible design you will find different ways, to do your job. Please play around a little while, to find the way that will fit best to your personal needs.
Let's assume you have a folder called pictures, filled with hundreds of pictures of your parents, your children, your cats and your dogs named PX0001, PX0002 ... taken with your digital camera.
It makes sense, to create the following structure of folders:
pictures ----- family --------- parents
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I------- children
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I--- animals -------- cats
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I------ dogs
Create these folders with your Windows Explorer. NH's PictureSort will be able to create folders in a later release.
We will use this example in our Quick Start tutorials.
In the main windows menu choose Options -> Define Classes.
Click on Add button and enter a class name (family). Press Ok. Once again click the Add button and enter animals now. Press Ok and at the Define Classes Window again press Ok.
Now choose in the main windows menu Options --> Define Subclasses.
Select a item (family or animals) in the Combobox and click on Add. Enter a subclass name (parents) and press Ok. In the browse window choose the folder where you want to store pictures of your parents. Once again click on Add, enter children and select the corresponding folder. Press Ok and at the Define Subclass Window press Ok again.
In the Main Windows left browser (Folder 1) select the first file. In the Main Windows right browser (Folder 2) select the second file. If those files are picture files, the pictures will be shown in the Picture 1 and Picture 2 Windows.
On the left side of the Main Window (Folder 1) browse to the folder, you will to copy or move files from. On the right side (Folde 2) of the Main Window, browse to the folder, you will copy or move to.
Select files in Folder 1. As soon as a picture is selected, the picture is shown in the picture 1 window. Select Copy or Move in the main window, press on >>>> and your files will be copied or moved.
Of course you can transfer files from Folder 2 to Folder 1.
In one of the browser windows of the Main Window (Folder 1 or Folder 2) browse to the folder, you will copy or move files from. In the Class Window select the class and subclass you will copy or move to. In the class window select the folder you will copy from and select, if to copy or to move. Double click at the subclass and your files will be transfered from the selected folder to your subclass folder.
In one of the browser windows of the Main Window (Fodler 1 or Folder 2) browse to the folder, where you want to rename files. Select files. In the Rename Window, choose the rename options. In the Rename Window select, if you want to rename files in Folder 1 or Folder 2. Press Rename.