Request : Select or filter folders by contents in any file manager

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Ben

I've been trying to sort out my HD over the past couple of weeks and am
struggling to find the following feature in any of the free file
managers - I may be looking in the wrong place, not seeing the forest
for the trees, or the feature may not actually exist - any help or
pointers would be appreciated.

What I would like to do is select a group of folders based on whether a
particular filetype exists in the folder - for example, select (or
filter to display only) folders in the folder "Photos" which contain an
SFV file. I can then move all the folders containing SFV's to another
folder ready to burn, and create SFVs in all the remaining folders.

I know I can do a Windows search for *.sfv and to show a list of sfv
files in the folders, but I then have to read down the list and select
each folder manually as Windows only offers "Open Containing Folder" as
a context menu option - not great when I have a couple of hundred
folders to go through...

Happy to switch to or try anything anyone can offer - I guess I could do
it myself with some batch file magic but a nice file manager would be
a bonus.

Thanks in advance,

Ben
 
I've been trying to sort out my HD over the past couple of weeks and am
struggling to find the following feature in any of the free file
managers - I may be looking in the wrong place, not seeing the forest
for the trees, or the feature may not actually exist - any help or
pointers would be appreciated.

What I would like to do is select a group of folders based on whether a
particular filetype exists in the folder - for example, select (or
filter to display only) folders in the folder "Photos" which contain an
SFV file. I can then move all the folders containing SFV's to another
folder ready to burn, and create SFVs in all the remaining folders.

I know I can do a Windows search for *.sfv and to show a list of sfv
files in the folders, but I then have to read down the list and select
each folder manually as Windows only offers "Open Containing Folder" as
a context menu option - not great when I have a couple of hundred
folders to go through...

Happy to switch to or try anything anyone can offer - I guess I could do
it myself with some batch file magic but a nice file manager would be
a bonus.

Thanks in advance,

Ben
Click to expand...

Why not XXCopy? It can recursively read and flatten directories at
the destination. You open a DOS box, and type something like

XXCOPY C:\*.sfv D:\toburn\ /SG

Full instructions at
http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy16.htm

Download at
http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm#summary
 
What I would like to do is select a group of folders based on
whether a particular filetype exists in the folder - for example,
select (or filter to display only) folders in the folder "Photos"
which contain an SFV file. I
Click to expand...

I would probably use XXCopy and batch files too, but you might find
Directify! a bit easier:

=== QUOTE ===
Directify! is a file organisation tool which allows intelligent grouping
of files based on a set of rules.

Imagine a directory with a variety of files. There may come a time when
you wish to organise them in a better fashion.

Directify! groups files in accordance to certain rules, either by files
with similar names, or have something common amongst them, such as a
substring.

To demonstrate this better, let's assume there's a directory with the
following files:
* Picture1.jpg
* Picture2.jpg
* Picture3.jpg
* Picture4.jpg
* Sound Clip1.wav
* Sound Clip2.wav
* Sound Clip3.wav
* Sound Clip4.wav
* Sound Clip5.wav
* Sound Clip6.wav
Invoking Directify! with no parameters would do the following:

---------------------------------------------------------
Directify! v.0.0.2 (beta) for NTFS partitions
Copyright (c) 2004-2005 N37dev - All Rights Reserved
www.n37dev.com for updates/bug reports
---------------------------------------------------------
:::Grouping:::



Simulation Mode - No changes will take place.
Creating Directory "Picture"
+ Picture1.jpg
+ Picture2.jpg
+ Picture3.jpg
+ Picture4.jpg

Creating Directory "Sound Clip"
+ Sound Clip1.wav
+ Sound Clip2.wav
+ Sound Clip3.wav
+ Sound Clip4.wav
Files 8 - Directories Created 2 - Files Moved 8 - Files Ignored 0
Simulation complete...
If the results are satisfactory, use LIVE switch (-L) to action
---------------------------------------------------------------
=== END QUOTE ===

URL is http://www.n37dev.com


I picked this one up from a recent posting on DonationCoder,
http://www.donationcoder.com

HTH
 
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