Bleedin' folders!

[Guest]

Considering I purchased this product (Wind XP Home) off a certain Mr Gates, I
must say - it's got to be the worst product support I've ever seen!!!!

Anyways, hope someone can help here. Basically I have a series of folders to
organise my mp3 collection. Original format (in order of folder structure) =

[Artist]
--- [Album]
--------Files

All nicely organised until an application reorganised it for me!!! Now all
the files have been moved to nested levels of sub-folders, for e.g.:

[Artist]
--- [Album]
------- [sub]
---------- [sub]
---------- files
--------------- [sub]
--------------- files

indefinite number of sub-folders and placement of files. What I need is an
explorer type function to, for example, right click on the original [Album]
folder, and request it 'flatten' all of the files into the folder, and delete
the now redundant sub-folders. I've searched everywhere - and can't find
anything to do this.

Can't do this by hand because of the number of files, and the fear of
misplacing files.

I've posted here twice now, with no help. Can anyone help... plleeeezze? And
where are these 'experts' touted on the newsgroup ho,e page?

Thanks,

Steve

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Steve;
"worst product support I've ever seen"
But it seems from what you say, Microsoft did not cause this.
What about the tech support for the "application reorganised it for me"
What is their solution to the problem their application caused?

Otherwise I think you are going to have to do it manually.
Start by getting rid of that application.
Then make a copy of your folders and put in a safe place.
If something goes wrong in the process of correcting the problem, you can
always go back to the copy you made.

 

[Guest]

It's a good thing Mr Gates doesn't slap a slander suit on you.

You foolishly installed an unidentified application on your PC. That
application and you allowed for the changes.

Is it Mr Gates' responsibility to keep you away from the problems you cause:
I think not.

So one would hardly think that Microsoft has developed a utility that will
undo all changes made to a hard disk by errant or unacceptable applications.

There are some tools that have been developed to assist you, but I bet that
you never even considered to run them in the first place.

If you had used XP Backup utility, then you could use it to restore the
files and folders.

If you used System Restore to create a checkpoint prior to installing the
application, it could be used to reset the registry and application folders
to their previous state.

May I recommend that you read a bit more about how to use your PC and keep
it away from the harm that you can so happily and readily inflict.

I wonder..if you have an accident in a Ford motor car, then is it Henry
Ford's fault that he didn't apply the brakes for you in time to avoid the
problem?

Steve;
"worst product support I've ever seen"
But it seems from what you say, Microsoft did not cause this.
What about the tech support for the "application reorganised it for me"
What is their solution to the problem their application caused?

Otherwise I think you are going to have to do it manually.
Start by getting rid of that application.
Then make a copy of your folders and put in a safe place.
If something goes wrong in the process of correcting the problem, you can
always go back to the copy you made.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/

Considering I purchased this product (Wind XP Home) off a certain Mr
Gates, I
must say - it's got to be the worst product support I've ever seen!!!!

Anyways, hope someone can help here. Basically I have a series of folders
to
organise my mp3 collection. Original format (in order of folder structure)
=

[Artist]
--- [Album]
--------Files

All nicely organised until an application reorganised it for me!!! Now all
the files have been moved to nested levels of sub-folders, for e.g.:

[Artist]
--- [Album]
------- [sub]
---------- [sub]
---------- files
--------------- [sub]
--------------- files

indefinite number of sub-folders and placement of files. What I need is an
explorer type function to, for example, right click on the original
[Album]
folder, and request it 'flatten' all of the files into the folder, and
delete
the now redundant sub-folders. I've searched everywhere - and can't find
anything to do this.

Can't do this by hand because of the number of files, and the fear of
misplacing files.

I've posted here twice now, with no help. Can anyone help... plleeeezze?
And
where are these 'experts' touted on the newsgroup ho,e page?

Thanks,

Steve

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

So, was this Mr Gates on a street corner, or what?

Tom
| Considering I purchased this product (Wind XP Home) off a certain Mr
Gates, I
| must say - it's got to be the worst product support I've ever seen!!!!
|
| Anyways, hope someone can help here. Basically I have a series of folders
to
| organise my mp3 collection. Original format (in order of folder structure)
=
|
| [Artist]
| --- [Album]
| --------Files
|
| All nicely organised until an application reorganised it for me!!! Now all
| the files have been moved to nested levels of sub-folders, for e.g.:
|
| [Artist]
| --- [Album]
| ------- [sub]
| ---------- [sub]
| ---------- files
| --------------- [sub]
| --------------- files
|
| indefinite number of sub-folders and placement of files. What I need is an
| explorer type function to, for example, right click on the original
[Album]
| folder, and request it 'flatten' all of the files into the folder, and
delete
| the now redundant sub-folders. I've searched everywhere - and can't find
| anything to do this.
|
| Can't do this by hand because of the number of files, and the fear of
| misplacing files.
|
| I've posted here twice now, with no help. Can anyone help... plleeeezze?
And
| where are these 'experts' touted on the newsgroup ho,e page?
|
| Thanks,
|
| Steve
|
|

 

[Guest]

Easy Tigers!

We're only talking about a few bits of silicon at the end of the day! (oh,
and a major world corperation - mind you we must look after these poor,
oppressed souls, huh?!!)

Well, thanks for the useful bits of your replys. I would conceed that it was
my choice and responsability to install the 'rogue agent' and thus the
re-organisation of the folders wasn't Mr Gate's fault. I think my frustration
is that what i need to happen seems like such a basic function, but I can't
find out how to do it anywhere! Guess you're right about the
warranty/responsability issue, just that other software companies can prove
infinitely more helpful with questions over 'is there any way to do [this]
with your software?' than other big ones. Hey ho, the way of the capatilist
world huh?

Less of the venom kids, and more peace and love huh? Thanks again for the
replies.

 

[David Candy]

for /d %A in (*.*) do move "%A\*.*" .\

or

for /d %A in (*.*) do (move "%A\*.*" .\ & rd "%A")

 

[Guest]

Thanks David,

That looks very helpful. That's the rub - I could imagine how to program it
(a simple loop moving any identified files down to the root) - only problem
is, the last time I did programming was in 1990 in (i can't even remember the
language!). Used to be BASIC savvy if that helps.

Is that visual basic? if so, how would I apply it to my folder structures.
Is it DOS? any pointers to articles etc. would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the measured response.

Steve

for /d %A in (*.*) do move "%A\*.*" .\

or

for /d %A in (*.*) do (move "%A\*.*" .\ & rd "%A")
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Easy Tigers!

We're only talking about a few bits of silicon at the end of the day! (oh,
and a major world corperation - mind you we must look after these poor,
oppressed souls, huh?!!)

Well, thanks for the useful bits of your replys. I would conceed that it was
my choice and responsability to install the 'rogue agent' and thus the
re-organisation of the folders wasn't Mr Gate's fault. I think my frustration
is that what i need to happen seems like such a basic function, but I can't
find out how to do it anywhere! Guess you're right about the
warranty/responsability issue, just that other software companies can prove
infinitely more helpful with questions over 'is there any way to do [this]
with your software?' than other big ones. Hey ho, the way of the capatilist
world huh?

Less of the venom kids, and more peace and love huh? Thanks again for the
replies.

 

[David Candy]

It's command prompt language. Dos's For command can't do as much as NT's For command.

If you type that in a destination folder it will copy all files in folders below it to that folder.

Type For, Move, and rd in Help. \. means current directory. \.. means parent, \..\.. means two levels higher. You may need to use attrib as move won't touch files with attributes set.

Attrib -r -s -h *.* /s

Copy your directory structure to practise.

If you put For commands into batch files then anything that if typed as %<a letter> (as in %A) in a command prompt becomes %%<a letter> (eg %%A) in a batch file. This is the only difference in typing vs batch, just the For commands is special, everything else is identical. Folders can dregged and dropped on a batch file (the folder name dropped will be %<a number> (eg %1).

So putting at the top

cd %1

will change the directory to that folder.

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Thanks David,

That looks very helpful. That's the rub - I could imagine how to program it
(a simple loop moving any identified files down to the root) - only problem
is, the last time I did programming was in 1990 in (i can't even remember the
language!). Used to be BASIC savvy if that helps.

Is that visual basic? if so, how would I apply it to my folder structures.
Is it DOS? any pointers to articles etc. would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the measured response.

Steve

for /d %A in (*.*) do move "%A\*.*" .\

or

for /d %A in (*.*) do (move "%A\*.*" .\ & rd "%A")
--
----------------------------------------------------------
http://www.microscum.com/mscommunity/

Easy Tigers!

We're only talking about a few bits of silicon at the end of the day! (oh,
and a major world corperation - mind you we must look after these poor,
oppressed souls, huh?!!)

Well, thanks for the useful bits of your replys. I would conceed that it was
my choice and responsability to install the 'rogue agent' and thus the
re-organisation of the folders wasn't Mr Gate's fault. I think my frustration
is that what i need to happen seems like such a basic function, but I can't
find out how to do it anywhere! Guess you're right about the
warranty/responsability issue, just that other software companies can prove
infinitely more helpful with questions over 'is there any way to do [this]
with your software?' than other big ones. Hey ho, the way of the capatilist
world huh?

Less of the venom kids, and more peace and love huh? Thanks again for the
replies.