DONE: Random (real random) file from folder and subfolders

[skwire]

@2muchacid, @TUTRider: Welcome to DonationCoder.  

The author of this program, scancode, hasn't been very active lately so I'm not sure if you're going to see a timely response from him.  We're going to try to contact him off-forum.  However, if he doesn't reply, and based on this app's popularity, I can see about rewriting the application myself.

[TUTRider]

No problem,it is not a huge deal because I can keep using other programs to do what I want but to get this one working would be rad. Let me know if you need any more info and I can definitely get it for you.

Thanks!

[2muchacid]

That would be great!! Can you do it, please?

The error I get only happens when I select a folder with many sub folders and files, like 30.000+ files.
That's the only fix I need.

Thanks!

[skwire]

I contacted scancode and he said he's in the process of rewriting this application in C#.

[Rexxx]

Hi all.  Registered just to say thank you for this program.  I thought I was the only one in the world that would want something like this.  I did find a couple things, and I am hoping I am just not smart enough to figure out how to work the program properly.  Can I choose more than one location?  I have three different hard drives with movies on them, and I would like to truly randomize my choice.  Also, when I do a pick, it will only pick a file that is within a folder.  For example, on the root of my D Drive, I have 500 movies, I also have 500 movies in various folders on the same drive.  If I do a pick, it will only give me results within folders, none of the files on the root of the drive are ever selected.  Outside of those two, this program is great, and does a great job of letting me not have to make a choice what movie to put on at work...

Thank You!

[2muchacid]

Any update on this?

Thanks!

[TechSmurfy]

Dude, thank you to the developer of this little program.  It was exactly what I was looking for...

And to answer the question as to WHAT on earth this could be used for:  I have a ton of emulator files for various gaming consoles (Sega, Nintendo, Playstation, etc) all in one folder with various subfolders for each corresponding system and the HUGE selection can be a bit overwhelming when just wanting to select a random game out of the lot.

So, I use the extensions "gb;n64;nes;bin;gg;sfc;smc" to randomly select a game from all consoles... or I can even narrow it down to a specific console.

Thank you for this.  This is extremely useful.

-celerygeneral99 (January 14, 2013, 11:00 PM)

I just registered to say I was looking for a program like this to do something similar. I'm surprised that there is no demand for this purpose. My only real problem now is... unfortunately I have uncompressed all of my, let's say, games -for the sake of the above argument- to separate folders. Which means that I was looking for a program that picks random FOLDERS instead of files and my guess is that "pickme" cannot be used for folders as it is? Shame.

Nevertheless, I registered just to say thanks for this. I am not aware of similar programs (but if there are, please feel free to indicate them).

EDIT: As a workaround since I can't pick folders, I tried "exe;swf;msi;unity3d" in the file associations. I set a source directory of 1103 subfolders. The program keeps crashing with an error "5". I tried setting another folder to search (its parent directory) and got an error "6" (overflow), after it attempted to ignore the settings and instead scanned all of my drives!

[2muchacid]

Anyone working on this?

[stuffingcold]

First time in this forum so if I post this in the wrong plcae or anything, let me know.
I started using the program "PickMe" and it is great, only problem is I get an error message when it is going through my music. It goes through all the artists A-E just fine, and picks from them, but then throws this error. (A picture is attached to this post)
Can anyone tell me how to fix this error?
I am running W8 Pro, 64bit.

-TUTRider (June 23, 2014, 04:42 PM)

I loved this program on my Windows 7 computer, but once I got a Windows 8 computer I started having this problem - problem also continued when I upgraded to Windows 10.

[scancode]

Just leaving this here. I just need to implement drag-and-drop and globbing.

This'll run as-is on Windows, OSX and Linux.

[Gurg]

Hey, I'm sorry to necro this thread, but I downloaded this program a few years back, sadly due to moving computers I have lost the program files. I would like to redownload it, however the download link has been overtaken by spam so I cannot redownload the program

I would really appreciate it if anyone has any solutions as I really enjoyed using this program

[mouser]

Thanks for posting, Gurg.  I tried the download link and agree it's now popping up lots of spam if you try to download it.  Scancode, the original author, comes around fairly regularly -- hopefully he'll see this and give us a fixed download asap.

[Gurg]

In the meantime if anyone has their own copy of the program files I'd appreciate it if you could privately contact me about downloading them

[scancode]

@mouser thanks for the heds up!

@Gurg, I have updated the download link. Turns out I had lost control of that domain a while ago! :/

[Gurg]

Thank you very much!

[chashnniel]

Since there is an error -- "Run time error '6: Overflow" on Windows 10.
Its the VB's Shortcoming when it attempts to store/search too much data.

scancode post an demo video of v2 on Nov 2015, So I'm wondering the version 2 is really exist?

Or should we just try skwire's Scud?

[tartar800]

Any chance of reupload ?

[nuuwnhuus]

Downloadlink seems to be down, does anyone still have the zip? My harddrive containing pickme stopped working.
This really is a gem, still no alternatives that do it quite as well as this. 

[p3lb0x]

While this may not be quite as well polished as the original version. I wrote a small console utility that does the same thing.

It is purely commandline based.
Setting the root directory is done using the option "-d" followed by the root directory to search from (example -d "c:/familyphotos")
Extension filtering is done by "-e" followed by the extensions you want to include (for example -e "wav,ogg,mp3")
The amount of files for you to choose from is set with the "-t" option followed by an integer.
This changes the behavior slightly if higher than 10, as 10 cannot be input in a single character. So when selecting you have to hit enter as well.

This gif should illustrate: DONE: Random (real random) file from folder and subfolders