Delete or rename non-matching files only

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Hi,
is there some way to delete all NONmatching files from a folder?

I have a set of photos from Flickr that I downloaded with Bulkr. (Nothing illegal - all creative commons). Each picture has a matching text file: aa.jpg and aa.txt. After looking thru the pictures, i move/delete many of them. It sometimes happens that although i delete the jpg, the unwanted txt file is left behind in the folder. I'd like to remove only these txt files that are not matched with a jpg file.
Any help appreciated.

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This will select all .txt files which do not have a corresponding .jpg file, and you can then delete the selected files as you would normally:

Select *.jpg DESELECTNOMATCH Select SIMILARBASE Select INVERT Select ~(*.txt) DESELECT

Or you can add the delete command to the end to do it all in one:

Select *.jpg DESELECTNOMATCH Select SIMILARBASE Select INVERT Select ~(*.txt) DESELECT Delete

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Leo, thank you. I think that you are saying that I can create this series of commands in the command editor which is referenced in the help documentation. I have tried to locate the command editor by clicking on various things and then clicking customize but all i get is a window with commands,toolbars,keys and context menus tabs, and i dont see anywhere to copy in the set of commands you gave me.

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Please see How to add buttons from this forum to your toolbars.

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THANK YOU!!! It worked perfectly. (I didnt use the delete command). I really appreciate how I can get real help from DOPUS within a day usually.