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Im having a problem
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 5:44 am
by Hopeful
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...
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 6:54 am
by morbidpete
right click,view,details
right click, sort by, type
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:08 am
by Hopeful
arranging by type doesnt separate files that are all played by the same media player...
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:12 am
by BlindPilot
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?
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 1:25 pm
by Hopeful
deal is when you say arrange by type, it doesnt involve the encoding at all in the sorting, just what program uses the file...
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 1:57 pm
by CiscoKid
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
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 2:09 pm
by Norm
xcopy
A little command-line tool, works well, and it's already installed
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 2:39 pm
by Hopeful
@ 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...
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 3:07 pm
by mountainman
RUN --> CMD --> xcopy etc etc etc ...
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 3:11 pm
by CiscoKid
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?
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:36 pm
by Norm
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.