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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.

You can for example drag&drop a folder like:
C:\Directory

To move files like:
C:\Directory\Subdirectory\File.txt

In a new destination like:
C:\Destination\Subdirectory\File.txt

As you can see, DropIt has recreated \Subdirectory of your files. And it works also with other actions like Copy, Compress, Extract, etc. (in general with all the actions that have a destination folder)



Real-life Example

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.

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.

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%

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

In bold you can see the folder structure recreated in this case by DropIt.

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.

howto/move_files_recreating_the_folder_structure.1392373509.txt.gz · Last modified: 2014/10/04 10:38 (external edit)