Automator Problem

Hi there,
I have been trying to figure this out today and yesterday and have had no luck, please help if you can!
I have an excel sheet of 15,000 image file names: eg 10010001.jpg, 10010002.jpg etc
I also have a folder of 42,000 images named using the same format.
The 15,000 images exist within the folder containing the 42,000 images - that is to say they make up part of the 42,000.
What I am trying to do is use automator to filter the 15,000 out of the 42,000 so I am left with 27,000 images in a separate folder.
So far I've tried this on automator:
- Find filter Items (42,000 files)
- Filter Finder Items (Any of the following are true: name contains {15,000 image names pasted in from excel})
- Get selected finder items
- Move Finder items (to selected folder {destination})
I've tried different variations of this too and its not working. I tried this a few months ago with a smaller number of images and it seemed to work fine - no idea why its not working this time!
I know I could do this manually but what I'm hoping is that someone will be able to help me out so I can just leave automator running in the background whilst I get on with other work.
Thank you!

OK so I have been trying different variations have substituted the final "move finder items" with "label finder items" for simplicity.
It works fine when I enter only one file name into "filter finder items" but when I enter multiple file names into this action is doesn't turn out any results. This seems to be the key problem.
Any one have any idea why this would be happening or how to fix it?

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