I have been sorting photos on and off in my spare time for the last week or so now, tweaking my script and playing around with options. My biggest pet peeve about the script was that the dialog box that came up asking for text always appeared smack dab in the middle of the screen. This inevitably covered up the photo I was looking at.

Yesterday night I had had enough of it. So I opened up Xcode and started learning how to write an applescript application. I woke up this morning and polished off the rest of the code and I am now proud to say that I now have a working application for sorting photos. I call it: DeChaos. (Apparently there is a gamma ray analysis program by the same name, but it’s public domain software and since I am the only one currently using my program I don’t think that there will be much of an issue with using the name.)

I would like to post up the app onto my site in case anyone else would be interested in using it, but I have to put some better error checking in place first. The program currently takes a few things for granted, which may not be true in the case of everyone who uses this program. Also I don’t know how well it handles when trying to sort photos into the same folder that is being sorted from. I’ll look into these issues as I have time.