How To Search For Files, Compare Date Created, Apply Action

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intro

We use this script to help us pull images out of folders in a directory from 1 camera, copy it to the parent folder and rename it to that of the folder name from which it came.

This is necessary as we have 170 different cameras taking multiple pictures, we manually place them into folders with a chosen name and do this up to 100 times in a day. Its for 3D scanning for vfx. At the end of the day, we run the script to get the main front image of what we scanned from each folder so we can see what we've done.

problem

Currently, it does its job but it needs improving. The camera (A_LDB) we want the image from outputs 3 images into the folder so the script therefore outputs all 3 images from the folders. We then go and delete 2 of the 3 images and keep the 1 we want. The 1 we want is the first of the 3 (ie. oldest file)

What code can I add to this script so that it finds the oldest images and only copies that one OR How do you have it delete the 2nd and 3rd image automatically after copying them (less efficient but acceptable)

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@echo off

SETLOCAL enableextensions ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION

set counter=0

for /r %%a in (".\*") do for %%b in ("%%~dpa\.") do (

    set filename=%%~na

    echo.!filename! | findstr /C:"A_LDB" 1>nul



    if errorlevel 1 (

    rem DO NOTHING  

    ) ELSE (

        set /a counter=counter+1

        set parent=%%~nxb

        set type=%%~xa

        copy "%%a" !cd!\!parent!"_cs"!counter!!type!

        

    )

)

popd

echo !counter! FILES HAVE BEEN COPIED

pause

I would appreciate any advise. I have been searching for a few days on a solution but I can't get anything to work as my understanding is very limited.

Thank you kind sirs!

[penpen]

You might use the commands "for/f" and "dir", untested for the actual directory (i don't know your involved directory structures):

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@echo off
setlocal enableExtensions disableDelayedExpansion
for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%a in ('dir /B /A:-D /T:C') do (
	echo Oldest file: "%%~a"
)
goto :eof

penpen