Move folders question

[sekular]

Using ctrl+b and multi-rename tool usually I can speed up doing big directory changes. But i can not think of anyway to accomplish a certain task.

I have a set of folders labelled A1-A10. Within each folder there is another folder called music. Within the music folder in each A1-10 folder there are various sub folders. What I want to do is remove the music folder and just have the sub-folders within the A10 folder. This means I have to move the sub-folders and then delete the music folder in each folder.

Any way to speed this up?

[ghisler(Author)]

You can do it like this:
1. Make a search for the folders you want to move one level up
2. Click on "Feed to listbox"
3. Select all (Ctrl+A)
4. Multi-rename tool (Ctrl+M)
5. New name: ..£[N] where £ must be a character not apearing in the names
6. Search for: £
7. Replace by: \
8. Start

[sekular]

I am unable to get that to work.

I firstly struggled to find the subfolders and not the top level folders with a search term as they are not actually named a1-10 they have random names. I used *|music. I had to manually select some of the sub folders as a test. I tried doing the \ in the find and replace and it does not appear to move the folders up a level or rename the files.

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[ghisler(Author)]

You forgot the two dots in step 5. Instead of writing £[N], you need to write:
..£[N]

The ".." means "parent directory".

[sekular]

Thanks for the reply.

When doing the search how can I ignore level 1 and 2 folders. If i choose different levels from the drop down it does not appear to allow me to ignore level 1 and 2 folders, only sub folders.

As music folder is a level 2 and i only want results of the level 3 folders in the search. Maybe a different search term completely would do it?

[dma]

Wow, marvelous tip, many thanks, it works perfectly.

[Samuel]

2ghisler(Author)
Sorry I can't figure out why these steps could not be consolidated:
5. New name: ..£[N] where £ must be a character not apearing in the names
6. Search for: £
7. Replace by: \

To this:
5. New name: ..\[N]

At least it works in TC 8.

[ghisler(Author)]

Sorry I can't figure out why these steps could not be consolidated:

I don't understand your comment. You write yourself that this was added to TC8...

[Samuel]

Sorry I can't figure out why these steps could not be consolidated:

I don't understand your comment. You write yourself that this was added to TC8...

So the consolidated procedure only works in TC 8?
I wonder why it doesn't worked in TC 7.5 then. (and why the workaround worked in TC 7.5)
Just curious.

[HolgerK]

So the consolidated procedure only works in TC 8?

Yes. New Feature of TC8.0

- Multi-rename tool enhancements: Allow backslashes in name field, directly create sub-folders for moving files

Regards
Holger

[Samuel]

Thanks. Just didn't knew it was possible before.