Copy/Move files.

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I have Vista on a laptop. I have a folder with many, many files (.jpg,
..bmp, .png, etc.). I wish to copy or move the many .jpg files to
another empty folder. So far I cannot do this as a batch but only
individually.

Is there a method for copying or moving hundreds of files to another
folder in Vista?

Peter.
 
PVR said:
I have Vista on a laptop. I have a folder with many, many files (.jpg,
.bmp, .png, etc.). I wish to copy or move the many .jpg files to
another empty folder. So far I cannot do this as a batch but only
individually.

Is there a method for copying or moving hundreds of files to another
folder in Vista?

Peter.
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In classic view, click on the "Type" column header in windows explorer,
this will sort the files by file extension, so all of your jpg files
will be listed together. At this point, you can shit-click to select
all of the jpg files and click and drag them to your empty folder.

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http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=435&tag=nl.e101
 
I have Vista on a laptop. I have a folder with many, many files
(.jpg, .bmp, .png, etc.). I wish to copy or move the many .jpg
files to another empty folder. So far I cannot do this as a batch
but only individually.

Is there a method for copying or moving hundreds of files to
another folder in Vista?
Click to expand...

You can do it just the same as with any previous version of Windows:
select all the files, cut them (Ctrl-X), navigate to the destination
folder, and paste them (Ctrl-V).

Do you have Vista's service packs installed? Seems to me the initial
release had some problems with file selection.
 
PVR said:
I have Vista on a laptop. I have a folder with many, many files (.jpg,
.bmp, .png, etc.). I wish to copy or move the many .jpg files to another
empty folder. So far I cannot do this as a batch but only individually.

Is there a method for copying or moving hundreds of files to another
folder in Vista?

Peter.
Click to expand...

On top of what everyone else suggested, edit/select all, then edit/copy or
cut. Open the folder the folder you want to move the files to then click on
edit/paste.
 
PVR said:
I have Vista on a laptop. I have a folder with many, many files (.jpg,
.bmp, .png, etc.). I wish to copy or move the many .jpg files to
another empty folder. So far I cannot do this as a batch but only
individually.

Is there a method for copying or moving hundreds of files to another
folder in Vista?
Click to expand...

Open a command console window and type:

move from\*.jpg c:\to\

substituting your "from" and "to" directories, of coursse.
 
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