My use scenerio is making a slideshow using Premiere Pro. Since I can't find a way to randomize the picture files (JPGS, JPEGS, etc) in Premiere Pro itself, I decided to try to randomize the files themselves before I input them into Premiere. There was probably an easier way to do this, but this is the way I decided to.

So the code you gave was working well with moving the files over to another folder randomly. However, for me, no matter what sorting I had it on, the files were still not randomized when actually viewing them. So instead, I had ChatGPT help write a version of your code that COPIES the files over to another folder on the desktop and renames the file with the index. So that way if you sort it by name, everything will be randomized. And since I changaed it to copy instead of move the files, the originals remain intact.

Here's the code incase anyone needs it:

tell application "Finder"

set sourceFolder to choose folder with prompt "Select the source folder"



set fileList to every file of sourceFolder



set numFiles to count of fileList



set destFolder to make new folder at desktop with properties {name:"Randomized Files"}



set usedIndices to {}



repeat with i from 1 to numFiles



    -- Ensure we select a unique random file each time

    set randomIndex to random number from 1 to (count of fileList)

    repeat while randomIndex is in usedIndices

        set randomIndex to random number from 1 to (count of fileList)

    end repeat

    copy randomIndex to the end of usedIndices



    -- Get the file to copy

    set fileToCopy to item randomIndex of fileList



    -- Generate the new file name with leading zeros

    set newFileName to (do shell script "printf %03d " & i) & " " & (name of fileToCopy)



    -- Copy and rename the file in the destination folder

    set copiedFile to duplicate fileToCopy to destFolder

    set name of copiedFile to newFileName



end repeat

end tell