Freeware move files automatically?

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Hi all, done the usual searches and can't find exactly what I'm
looking for. I want a program that I can give a wildcard of say *.mp3
and a destination directory of say c:\allmymp3s. Once the program has
that information I want it to check all partitions and move/or/copy
all the .mp3 files from their current location to the directory
specified.

Help?
 
czqq wrote in
Hi all, done the usual searches and can't find exactly what I'm
looking for. I want a program that I can give a wildcard of say *.mp3
and a destination directory of say c:\allmymp3s. Once the program has
that information I want it to check all partitions and move/or/copy
all the .mp3 files from their current location to the directory
specified.
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I dunno if you need an app for that. Windows Find File will find all the
MP3 files for you; then all you have to do is cut and paste them to where
you want them.
 
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I dunno if you need an app for that. Windows Find File will find all the
MP3 files for you; then all you have to do is cut and paste them to where
you want them.
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Yuo could also use the Microsoft Powertoy "Send To....any Folder" Do
your search--> select all
then R click and choose "Send To Any Folder" also keeps your place you
last sent files and the previous
9 other folders....

One place to DL this group of MS-engineer-designed add-on apps, is here:
ftp://ftp.hcs.harvard.edu/pub/win95/W95powertoy.exe ~204Kb

I Use It.

Enjoy!

Son Of Spy

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Hi all, done the usual searches and can't find exactly what I'm
looking for. I want a program that I can give a wildcard of say *.mp3
and a destination directory of say c:\allmymp3s. Once the program has
that information I want it to check all partitions and move/or/copy
all the .mp3 files from their current location to the directory
specified.

Help?
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Obviously no one is listening to this persons appeal.
They want a program to scan a said directory or directories, user selected,
at set intervals, users selected and if files are found to move/copy them
to another location.

From my stand point a simple request, but one I am sorry after many
searches can not find a solution, sorry.

IMO - I can only see a program request like this for only one purpose and
that to takes files downloaded using a P2P File-Sharing program and move
them away from the P2P's greedy eyes so as not to share it.
But hey thats my opinion.
 
Here you go.....

Kazaa Scanner is designed to automatically move files from your Kazaa
download folder into a different folder, where they are not
automatically shared. This allows you to inspect files before sharing
them, and also to control the number of files to be shared. Despite the
name, Kazaa Scanner is not limited to be used with Kazaa; it can be used
with any P2P file sharing program, since the user can freely select the
source and target folders. Any file added to the source folder will
immediately be moved into the specified target folder.

http://www3.telus.net/starthere/kazaascan.zip ~1.4Mb

Enjoy!

Son Of Spy

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IMO - I can only see a program request like this for only one purpose and
that to takes files downloaded using a P2P File-Sharing program and move
them away from the P2P's greedy eyes so as not to share it.
But hey thats my opinion.
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Actually nothing quite that interesting. I've downloaded and collected
a great number of jpgs, gifs, etc, that are textures or backgrounds,
or skins, etc. (For 3D modeling, web page design, etc). As I look
about my hard-drive, I see that I have them scattered everywhere
because I'm sloppy when downloading. Just wanted a quick, easy
automated way to move files into one directory. I used mp3 in my
example because that's what seems to be the "hot" file type right now.
 
Obviously no one is listening to this persons appeal.
They want a program to scan a said directory or directories, user selected,
at set intervals
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Sorry, you're drawing unwarranted conclusions. Nothing in the OP indicated
a desire for periodic, automatic moves.
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czqq wrote in
Actually nothing quite that interesting. I've downloaded and collected
a great number of jpgs, gifs, etc, that are textures or backgrounds,
or skins, etc. (For 3D modeling, web page design, etc). As I look
about my hard-drive, I see that I have them scattered everywhere
because I'm sloppy when downloading. Just wanted a quick, easy
automated way to move files into one directory. I used mp3 in my
example because that's what seems to be the "hot" file type right now.
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The find files method won't work particularly well for image files
then....you'd hoick all your program graphics into your download folder
and end up with extremely ugly appz. If it's a finite number of folders,
you could take the .bat file approach....the good part is that you only
have to do it once. Type something like:

move c:\program files\netscape\users\download\*.gif c:\download
move c:\program files\netscape\users\download\*.jpg c:\download
move c:\program files\netscape\users\download\*.jpeg c:\download
move c:\program files\netscape\users\download\*.png c:\download
move c:\program files\opera\*.gif c:\download
move c:\program files\opera\*.jpg c:\download
move c:\program files\opera\*.jpeg c:\download
move c:\program files\opera\*.png c:\download
move c:\folder3\*.gif c:\download
move c:\folder3\*.jpg c:\download
move c:\folder3\*.jpeg c:\download
move c:\folder3\*.png c:\download
move c:\folder4\*.gif c:\download
move c:\folder4\*.jpg c:\download
move c:\folder4\*.jpeg c:\download
move c:\folder4\*.png c:\download

....and so on. Save the text file as imagetidy.bat or whatever and run it
(double click on it in Windows Explorer).
 
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