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

[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

 

[Dewey Edwards]

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

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

 

[Hengist_Ludd]

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

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 ===

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

HTH