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-====== How to move files recreating the folder structure ====== 
  
-This is a interesting feature of DropIt, because allow you to move your files in a destination directory, recreating the original folder structure. 
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-You can for example drag&​drop a folder like:\\ 
-''​C:​\Directory''​ 
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-To move files from:\\ 
-''​C:​\Directory\Subdirectory\File.txt''​ 
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-To a new destination like:\\ 
-''​C:​\Destination**\Subdirectory**\File.txt''​\\ 
-or like:\\ 
-''​C:​\Destination**\Directory\Subdirectory**\File.txt''​ 
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-As you can see, DropIt has recreated a portion of the path of your files (''​\Subdirectory''​ or ''​\Directory\Subdirectory''​). 
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-It works also with other actions like Copy, Compress, Extract and in general with all the actions that have a path as destination. 
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-You only need to create an association that uses ''​%SubDir%''​ and/or ''​%DroppedDirName%''​ in destination. The following examples describe how to do it. 
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-===== Example 1 ===== 
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-Let's consider that I have a main ''​Media''​ folder that contains subfolders of music, movies and other stuff. I'm not very neat, so there are some subfolders that contain ''​mp3'',​ ''​txt'',​ ''​doc'',​ ''​avi''​ __together__. 
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-Now I want to extract only ''​mp3''​ files from there, but I want to keep the folder structure, because subfolders have names like ''​U2'',​ ''​REM'',​ ''​Taylor Swift'',​ etc. 
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-What I need is to create a single association of DropIt, something like this:\\ 
-Name: ''​Move my music''​\\ 
-Rules: ''​*.mp3''​\\ 
-Action: ''​Move''​\\ 
-Destination:​ ''​C:​\My Music\%SubDir%''​ 
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-And then drag&​drop the ''​Media''​ folder on DropIt (yes, the folder that contains all my media files). The result will be something like this:\\ 
-''​C:​\My Music**\REM**\Everybody Hurts.mp3''​\\ 
-''​C:​\My Music**\REM**\Losing My Religion.mp3''​\\ 
-''​C:​\My Music**\Taylor Swift**\Love Story.mp3''​\\ 
-''​C:​\My Music**\Taylor Swift**\You Belong With Me.mp3''​\\ 
-''​C:​\My Music**\U2**\Beautiful Day.mp3''​\\ 
-''​C:​\My Music**\U2**\With or Without You.mp3''​ 
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-In bold you can see the folder structure recreated in this case by DropIt. 
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-An additional tip: from DropIt Options you can select "​Ignore unassociated files/​folders"​. It will help in this case, to ignore all other file formats during the process and do not have the popup message that asks if create new associations for them. 
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