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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
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 Posted - 05 December 2004 : 01:56:53
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I'm not even sure anything like this exists, but I've searched for quite some time. I'm trying to find some software that will break files out of subfolders. I'm constantly wanting to bring a few hundred files from subfolders to higher level folders, and I'm getting tired of doing it a couple at a time. Something else that I'm trying to find is a mass file renaming utility. I imagine something that works like the Replace in MS Word. I can select a hundred files and replace all occurences of x word with y word.
Hopefully someone out there has seen or heard about something that may work for this. |
Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
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seven
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 05 December 2004 : 13:09:34
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| Do a search in explorer for the files you want to move... maybe even * on a set of folders. The search window will display the files in the subfolders, you can then select them all and cut & paste as you wish. |
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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
1079 Posts |
Posted - 06 December 2004 : 00:35:42
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Really great idea, but unfortunately it didn't seem to work.
Now that I'm thinking about it, is there some way to move files in ASP or any other language (I have VS.Net if that helps)? If someone could possibly give me some clues about how to write a program that can: A) get the file/directory structure of a specified location, then; B) move the files; I might just be able to do it myself. I've used VB.Net a little, but not recently. |
Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com) |
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pdrg
Support Moderator
United Kingdom
2897 Posts |
Posted - 06 December 2004 : 05:43:33
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What you're after is the FileSystemObject (or I think it may be somewhere in system.io in .net). It is on your PC already, as a part of the microsoft.scripting COM library (or in the CLR in .NET)
However, for a bulk file renamer, this http://www.1-4a.com/rename/rename-features.htm is gorgeous - click on the advanced tab though to get up the power menu...the interface isn't obvious but it is stunningly powerful, and I use it for renaming and mending all those pesky mp3 files ;-) |
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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
1079 Posts |
Posted - 06 December 2004 : 12:33:18
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That's exactly what I've been looking for. Thanks pdrg!
Now, if I can just find some sort of program to bust all those mp3 files out of their dang subfolders so I can work with them better. |
Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com) |
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pdrg
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United Kingdom
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seven
Senior Member
USA
1037 Posts |
Posted - 07 December 2004 : 19:25:07
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I don't understand why this wouldn't work for you?
If you have Win XP, select a main folder or drive. Do a search for *.mp3 and it will find all the mp3's in the subfolders. Select all the files found and move them to a different folder. Done!
No scripts to write, no batch files to write, no coding involved. |
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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
1079 Posts |
Posted - 07 December 2004 : 21:12:47
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| Well, my computer hasn't been rebooted in about a month and a half. I'll reboot and see if that changes anything... I was getting some sort of weird error, though. Something I can't remember right now... too tired and sick. |
Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com) |
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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
1079 Posts |
Posted - 07 December 2004 : 21:33:22
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| Yup, there it is... 'Cannot read from the source file or disk.' So... not really an uncommon error, but one that shouldn't be coming up nonetheless. I've got Google's Desktop Client running. Could the background indexing somehow interfere with this? It's a long shot, but I'm running short on ideas. |
Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com) |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08 December 2004 : 05:03:57
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| This means either one of the files you are trying to copy is damaged or there is a bad file reference on your disk. try running chkdsk on your drive to fix it. |
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