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#64531 17-Jul-2010 10:26

In Win XP I have a heap of folders and I want to copy the contents (mp3 files) of all the folders into one new folder, i.e. without the original folders being in the new folder.

Is there a quick way to do this in one hit without having to open each folder individually, and then copy and paste contents of each folder into the new one?

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#352609 17-Jul-2010 11:17

You could try doing a search in the parent folder for *.mp3, and then cut and paste the files in the results screen into the new folder.

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#352613 17-Jul-2010 11:24

Great thinking - many thanks

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#352618 17-Jul-2010 11:37

Better still you can just open a command prompt and execute this:

FOR /R %%G IN (*.mp3) DO copy "%%G" \temp\destination

Replace the \temp\destination with the folder you want to receive it. Run this from the parent folder for all those folders...

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#353399 19-Jul-2010 13:57

Just had to look that up :-)

"
FOR /R [[drive:]path] %variable IN (set) DO command [command-parameters]

Walks the directory tree rooted at [drive:]path, executing the FOR statement in each directory of the tree. If no directory specification is specified after /R then the current directory is assumed. If set is just a single period (.) character then it will just enumerate the directory tree."

though:

"To use the FOR command in a batch program, specify %%variable instead of %variable. Variable names are case sensitive, so %i is different
from %I."

The way I read it, shouldn't you be using just the one % since you are outside of a batch file ?

http://www.computerhope.com/forhlp.htm#03

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#353400 19-Jul-2010 13:59

It makes no difference. At least with the test perfomed before posting the command here.