Im having a problem

Hopeful · Post by **Hopeful** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 5:44 am

I need to separate a folder into music, movies, images and applications...

images and applications are easy when you mess around with folder settings...

but the movies and music both run together as they're played in the same program. What im looking for is a method to sort these two out so i can put them into new more sorted files instead of this one...

That's my problem... that and im eating a LOT of blueberries...

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 6:54 am

right click,view,details

right click, sort by, type

Hopeful · Post by **Hopeful** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:08 am

arranging by type doesnt separate files that are all played by the same media player...

BlindPilot · Post by **BlindPilot** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:12 am

IT should arrange them by type:

ie .a* first

.Z* last

so MP3's will be shown after avi's...

is that what your trying to do?

Hopeful · Post by **Hopeful** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 1:25 pm

deal is when you say arrange by type, it doesnt involve the encoding at all in the sorting, just what program uses the file...

CiscoKid · Post by **CiscoKid** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 1:57 pm

Hopeful wrote:deal is when you say arrange by type, it doesnt involve the encoding at all in the sorting, just what program uses the file...

Hopeful, it should be sorting by extension, so unless all your movies and audio files .wmv, there shouldn't be any problems

Also, it will only be softed by type when you view the folder, if you try and open the files from within the program, it won't be sorted

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 2:09 pm

xcopy
A little command-line tool, works well, and it's already installed

Hopeful · Post by **Hopeful** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 2:39 pm

@ cisco

All i know is my weird al music video's are right next to my weird al music... :-p... They arent sorting by extensions, otherwise this've been solved... :-p

@ norm...

xcopy??? not exactly sure how it works...

mountainman · Post by **mountainman** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 3:07 pm

RUN --> CMD --> xcopy etc etc etc ...

CiscoKid · Post by **CiscoKid** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 3:11 pm

Hopeful wrote:@ cisco

All i know is my weird al music video's are right next to my weird al music... :-p... They arent sorting by extensions, otherwise this've been solved... :-p

@ norm...

xcopy??? not exactly sure how it works...

Are you sure they're sorted by type and not by name?

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:36 pm

Make a batch file. Place it in the dir with all your files.

xcopy *.wmv movies /i
xcopy *.mpeg movies /i
xcopy *.mpg movies /i
xcopy *.avi movies /i

xcopy *.exe applications /i

xcopy *.mp3 music /i
xcopy *.wav music /i

xcopy *.gif images /i
xcopy *.jpg images /i
xcopy *.jpeg images /i
xcopy *.bmp images /i

Add whatever else you need.