Hey experts! I have an image database of 3500 images in FMP9 on a Mac G4. The images are stored as references to images that live in a folder with lots and lots of other images.
To participate in an ARTstor project, I have flattened the metadata for 3500 images into Excel. ARTstor requires we send digitized images exactly matching the data in our database. As I mentioned, the images we have prepared for upload are only a portion of the image file. The problem. I can't send the entire image file only the 3500 images that match the data in the FMP database (stored references - it's about 60GB of image data). I have a script to open each original image in Photoshop - one at a time. Is there any way to batch export images from the FMP database into a new file? This way the file would only hold images related to the database - thus meeting the criterion of ARTstor. I thought about a script to loop opening images in Photoshop, and then use the batch operation in Photoshop to put them in a new file, but I think this could be really slow - if it works at all. I have no idea many to open at one time (each image is 15-20 MB) without crashing the computer. I'm on a deadline - of course. I've been so busy tweaking metadata and flattening it all out in the kinds of fields they require (lots of new calc fields), that this image problem snuck up on me. Deb Tinsley Deborah Tinsley Assoc. Librarian of Visual Resources Kansas City Art Institute [email protected] 816 802 3395
