[nav33n]

Hi all ! I am not quite sure if this is the right forum to post this topic! but anyway, let me post my question!

I have a folder, pics. In pics, i have some 20 folders with 100's of photos in each folder. I want to copy these photos in 20 folders to a single folder, is it possible ? in dos probably ?

Thanks !

[Louisda16th]

This is the wrong forum. You should have posted in Computer support. Wait for a moderator to move it.

[Louisda16th]

You could write one batch file with all your commands and execute it at once. Im not sure if there's any other way. Possibly someone has a better solution.
Hope this helps .

[Liontrue1]

Of course, there are plenty of other ways. You can create a small app (Java, C++, VB...) that does it for you and make it use recursive functions/methods. If you need some code just post in a forum!

[Louisda16th]

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Of course, there are plenty

My Bad. I was under the impression that he was looking for DOS commands.

[jjhaag]

If all of the folders with the pics are in one single parent directory, you might try this...

For a less technologically-snazzy way, go to search (I'm just assuming this is WinXP). Click search for pictures etc, then click advanced options. Type the path of the parent directory into the "Look in" field, and *.jpg or *.jpeg (again, just assuming here) in the file name field.

The search results will be a list of all the files across all of the directories. Highlight and drag or copy/paste into the new directory.

-jjh

[skyhawk133]

jjhaag, on 16 Oct, 2007 - 12:13 PM, said:

If all of the folders with the pics are in one single parent directory, you might try this...

For a less technologically-snazzy way, go to search (I'm just assuming this is WinXP). Click search for pictures etc, then click advanced options. Type the path of the parent directory into the "Look in" field, and *.jpg or *.jpeg (again, just assuming here) in the file name field.

The search results will be a list of all the files across all of the directories. Highlight and drag or copy/paste into the new directory.

-jjh

That's the PERFECT way to do that... man, wish I had thought of it

[Louisda16th]

Me too . Sometimes the most complicated problems have the simplest solutions!!

[jjhaag]

Louisda16th, on 16 Oct, 2007 - 12:16 PM, said:

Me too . Sometimes the most complicated problems have the simplest solutions!!

Thanks - hope it helps a few of you.

I ftp'ed a bunch of GIS data a while back and needed to get it all organized...I mean, it's fine having to manually go and move a couple of hundred pics, but we're talking about 30000+ tifs, shapefiles, xml metadata files, etc, in maybe 300 different directories, all of them nested. That kind of thing REALLY makes you search for something effective.

-jjh

[MorphiusFaydal]

It's a one-liner, if you're on a unix box:

cp */* ~/NewPics/

Of course, make sure you've got the NewPics folder already made. Or whatever you want to call it. And you run it from inside the directory that has all the old pics.

[nav33n]

Wow! thank you all for ur time and response ! Psst..i wasnt thinking of writing a program to do the work for me! but the "searching method" will surely work! thanks again!
Cheers!

[teron83xl]

nav33n, on 16 Oct, 2007 - 11:21 PM, said:

Wow! thank you all for ur time and response ! Psst..i wasnt thinking of writing a program to do the work for me! but the "searching method" will surely work! thanks again!
Cheers!

I do have a dos version (batch file) for this simple task.
I got it from searching 7zip archiving in dos command. And I simplified it to suit the task. The credit should go to the original poster.

@echo off
rem set you folder and target folders here
set _folder_in="D:\source\"
set _folder_out="D:\target\"

rem set the desired extensions inside the bracket like below
for /r %_folder_in% %%g in (*.zip *.rar *.7z) do call :process "%%g"

pause
goto :eof

:process
set _fullfile=%~f1
COPY %_fullfile% %_folder_out%
rem you can modify COPY to other dos commands such as MOVE or DELETE etc.

goto :eof

my 1st post , hope it helps

This post has been edited by teron83xl: 03 December 2007 - 08:04 PM