separating child folders from parent folders

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  1. Posts : 47
    Windows 7
       #1

    separating child folders from parent folders


    I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask my particular question, but here goes. I have a folder for all of my music, and within that folder is a bunch of artists folders, and within each of those I have album folders, which contain the individual music files. I am trying to figure out an easy way to grab all of those album folders at once and move them to one main folder. That's instead of looking through each artist folder, and moving the album folders within each one which could be a very time-consuming process. I thought I had figured out a way to do this, but all of the song files were placed directly into the master folder without being contained within their album folders. Any idea how to do this?
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  2. Posts : 161
    Windows 7 Home x64
       #2

    1. create new folder on desktop (or any other location you like)
    2. click Start button
    3. click Computer
    4. double-click drive where music is stored
    5. look at the left side of the window
    6. double-click drive where music is stored (file tree expands)
    7. click the triangle next to folder where music is stored (file tree expands)
    8. click the triangle next to artist folder(s)
    9. start dragging album folders to newly created folder


    edit* that's one way to do it anyway
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  3. Posts : 22,814
    W 7 64-bit Ultimate
       #3

    Hello dmehling.



    I'm not at all sure what you're asking but start by having a look at the tutorial at the link below, I move all kinds of stuff around with it all the time (single and multiple files); be sure to keep us informed.

    Context Menu - Add Copy To Folder and Move To Folder
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  4. Posts : 47
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #4

    I know how to find my music folders and move files. This is what I described as the time-consuming method, which I'm trying to avoid. I don't want to have to look within each artist folder and move album folders. I want to be able to move all album folders at once.
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  5. Posts : 161
    Windows 7 Home x64
       #5

    Bare Foot Kid said:
    Hello dmehling.



    I'm not at all sure what you're asking but start by having a look at the tutorial at the link below, I move all kinds of stuff around with it all the time (single and multiple files); be sure to keep us informed.

    Context Menu - Add Copy To Folder and Move To Folder
    I'm pretty sure the OP is looking for a less labor intensive method (something to the effect of "select all">copy>paste. Problem is, I don't think folders behave that way.
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  6. Posts : 22,814
    W 7 64-bit Ultimate
       #6

    Looks pretty easy to me.

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  7. Posts : 161
    Windows 7 Home x64
       #7

    The OP wants to copy (or move) all Album (child) folders, that are themselves within multiple Artist (parent) folders, at the same time.

    I think the problem is that if you're working inside a given parent folder, while you can use "select all" to copy or move that folder's entire contents, you can't move on to a different parent folder and add its contents to what you've already copied.

    I don't think there is a "clipboard" function for this sort of thing, is there?

    Does that even remotely make sense? I'm not the most articulate of cats...
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  8. Posts : 22,814
    W 7 64-bit Ultimate
       #8

    One last time.

    In the upper left corner click "Organize" in organize click "select all" then on one of the highlighted (blue) lines right click, then "move to" then in the window that opens navigate to the new location then select move.


    I do it all the time and it works flawlessly.

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  9. Posts : 3,300
    Win7 Home Premium 64x
       #9

    If they are all .mp3, then you could do a search and then select all and then move them all to a new folder. This would move all .mp3 files on your computer to one folder though. dont know if that is a good idea or not lol

    Do a search and type in *.mp3
    make sure all the files listed are the ones you want to move to the new folder
    Move the files

    Edit: hmmm I was way off....

    I will look into this when I get home
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  10. Posts : 1,170
    XP Pro SP3 X86 / Win7 Pro X86
       #10

    dmehling said:
    I know how to find my music folders and move files. This is what I described as the time-consuming method, which I'm trying to avoid. I don't want to have to look within each artist folder and move album folders. I want to be able to move all album folders at once.
    Ok... open your music folder where you want the files in one window...

    Now open the folder with the sub folders you want to move in another...

    Two windows.... one destination the other source.

    Use the Aero snap feature....
    Drag one to the left side of the screen... it will jump to fill half the screen
    Drag the other to the right side of the screen... it will fill the other half

    Drag the folders you want moved from one window and drop them on the other.


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