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		<title>Move all files from subdirectories into main directory</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I extract multiple archives at once I use a setting that creates a directory of the same name in the main folder. This isn&#8217;t such a big problem normally if I decided to keep the extracted files in the new folder but it sometimes becomes a problem when I need all the files in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When I extract multiple archives at once I use a setting that creates a directory of the same name in the main folder. This isn&#8217;t such a big problem normally if I decided to keep the extracted files in the new folder but it sometimes becomes a problem when I need all the files in one directory. Lets take the following example. I have downloaded twenty videoclips as archives and extracted them into twenty subdirectories of the download folder on my hard drive.</p>
<p>I used to move each file manually from the subdirectory into the main directory until I could not take it anymore and decided to search for a solution that would automatically move all files in all subdirectories of a selected folder into that folder. I did find Dir Utils, a software that can do that and much more.</p>
<p>Dir Utils adds six entries to the right-click menu, among them is the option called Unify which moves all files from all subdirectories (and their subdirectories..) into the main folder.</p>
<p><span id="more-3744"></span>Here are the five other options that are available:</p>
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<li><strong>Extensionize</strong>: Categorises files in a folder by their extensions. It is possible to move all video files into one subfolder, all audio files and so on. That&#8217;s the only option that comes with its own .ini file that can be configured to add file types to groups.</li>
<li><strong>Alphabetize</strong>: Moves files in a directory automatically into subdirectories beginning with the first char of their name. Chars beginning with a-z will be moved to the subdirectories a-z accordingly, all numbers will be moved to the subdirectory 0, all file s beginning with any other char will be moved to the ! subdirectory. Great for directories with many files in them.</li>
<li><strong>Arrange</strong>: Automatically creates subdirectories for multi-volume archives. I&#8217;m using Extract Now for that purpose.</li>
<li><strong>Unzip</strong>: Will find all zip files and unzip them into a directory with the same name. I&#8217;m using Extract Now for that purpose.</li>
<li><strong>New Dir</strong>: Reduces the number of clicks needed to create a new subdirectory from 3 to 2.</li>
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