This can be handy in situations where files usually land in an upload directory with limited space or to automatically transfer files from a directory to another on the computer’s hard drive. P2P users might also like the idea of moving finished downloads from the download directory to another directory.

Move Out uses rules that specify names and extensions that should be moved automatically from monitored folders to others. The process of setting up rules does not take long with the changes taking effect immediately. The user configuring the rules has to add a source and destination folder as well as names and file extensions that should be moved and optionally those that should be ignored. Wildcard usage is possible with the easiest being *.* which will move all files that appear in the source folder to the destination folder. File replacement rules can be set as well in case a file with the same name exists in the destination folder.

The program will check for matching files every three seconds by default. This value can be changed in the options of the program to in case a faster or slower speed is required.

FileWarper is a German freeware which is fortunately not difficulty to use. I took the liberty and translated all buttons and explanations into English. You need to configure the tool once and keep it running in the background. Let me explain the various settings, don’t worry, it is not much.

You can add new folders that you want to observe by clicking on the button Hinzufügen. Just browse to a folder that you want to add and select Wählen to add it. The default dir where the files are moved is C:\Program Files\FileWarper\data\ – you probably want to change that dir to another one, just click and enter another dir.

The program checks every 10 seconds if new files are found in the observed directories. You can change that figure easily. The * entry means that all files that are in that folder are moved to another directory and the *.dat excludes files with the .dat extension from being moved.

It is possible to move only *.jpg for instance or *.mp3 or add more extensions that should be excluded.