Display content of multiple folders in one (like Windows Libraries)

[Wojtek]

Hi Folks!

Is there a way to show the content of multiple folders as one (like Windows Libraries)?

Background
I made a backup of my Walkman, two folders, one for the system storage, one for for the MicroSD card like this:
[Backup HDD]
-Walkman
--internal
---Artist A
----Album1
----Album2
---Artist B
----Album1
----Album2
...
--sdcard
---Artist C
----Album1
----Album2
---Artist D
----Album1
----Album2
...

And I would like this to shop up as following:
-Walkman (Backup)
--Artist A
---Album1
---Album2
--Artist B
---Album1
---Album2
--Artist C
---Album1
---Album2
--Artist D
---Album1
---Album2
...

Any ideas how to achieve this?

[beb]

If "Walkman" and "Walkman (Backup)" folders are in the same parent folder "[Backup HDD]" (or if you will place them that way) you could see the contents of both of them as one by pressing Ctrl+B being in the said parent folder.
But I'm afraid I'm misinterpreting you, and that is not what you actually want.

Otherwise, you can create a new Windows Library, let's say "Walkman", point out both "Walkman" and "Walkman (Backup)" to be there, drag the newly created library in Total Commander to \\Desktop\\Libraries\, and then you can enter \\Libraries\Walkman\ library in Total Commander and see the common contents.

[Wojtek]

If "Walkman" and "Walkman (Backup)" folders are in the same parent folder "[Backup HDD]" (or if you will place them that way) you could see the contents of both of them as one by pressing Ctrl+B being in the said parent folder.
But I'm afraid I'm misinterpreting you, and that is not what you actually want.

Unfortunately this is not what I need.
When connected, my Walkman mounts 2 drives, let's say X:\ and Y:\ and as backup solution I copy all the music (which is within the "MUSIC" folder of the parent drive) to my NAS (which has drive Z:\ for example).
But instead of copying all the music to one backup location I have two subfolders (eg. Z:\Walkman\internal and Z:\Walkman\sdcard) and what I want to do are some operations like tagging, renaming, etc. of the music files in the backup location.

Now, I have my music stored on another NAS, let's say W:\ and I want to copy some music to my Walkman. Here comes the tricky part:
If I decide to copy new albums from Artist A and Artist B to my Walkman I need to check 2 folders (internal and sdcard) since I don't know where the music of those artists is saved.
It would save me a lot of time having both displayed as one single folder.

The reason why there are two folders at all is just because of some space limitations of the Walkman which has 256 GB internal memory and up to 500 GB extra with a memory card inserted (yeah, it's all lossless stuff like FLAC, WAV, etc with up to 24bit/192kHz).
For better performance I have my favorites saved on the internal memory and stuff I don't listen to often on the memory card.

[Wojtek]

Otherwise, you can create a new Windows Library, let's say "Walkman", point out both "Walkman" and "Walkman (Backup)" to be there, drag the newly created library in Total Commander to \\Desktop\\Libraries\, and then you can enter \\Libraries\Walkman\ library in Total Commander and see the common contents.

I already have a Windows Library containing all the folders I need (named "Walkman"), but when navigating to the library location it opens an Explorer Window instead of browsing with TC.

The other part doesn't seem to work for me (When typing in "cd \\Desktop\\Libraries\" or just "\\Desktop\\Libraries\" nothing happens.

Does TC support browsing of Windows Libraries?
I'm aware of this thread: https://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=41665 but that's way too complicated and probably outdated.

[beb]

2Wojtek
What about the latter (Otherwise, you can create a new Windows Library...)
I tested it for the three sources:

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Walkman1
ArtistA\Album1\song1.flac
ArtistA\Album2\song2.flac
ArtistB\Album1\song3.flac
ArtistB\Album2\song4.flac

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Walkman2
ArtistC\Album1\song5.flac
ArtistC\Album2\song6.flac
ArtistD\Album1\song7.flac
ArtistD\Album2\song8.flac

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Walkman3
ArtistE\Album1\song9.flac
ArtistE\Album2\song0.flac

And this is how it can appear:
Image: https://i.imgur.com/5x6rMSZ.jpg

Does TC support browsing of Windows Libraries?
As you can see it does, e.g., this way:
Image: https://i.imgur.com/qdgiAkf.png

Edit: change one image a bit.

[Wojtek]

@beb
Wow! Many thanks!
I think this will be exactly what I wanted, I'll test it tomorrow after work.

[beb]

2Wojtek
You are welcome.

[petermad]

2Wojtek

Does TC support browsing of Windows Libraries?

yes as virtual folders. either in TC 's menu go to "Commands" -> "Open Desktop folder" - then you should see the Libraries folder in the file list - or use the command cd ::{031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5} to go directly to the libraries folder. Notice that it is a virtual folder, so far from all of TC's functions work in it, but you should be able to copy files to and from it.

You can also access the libraries via TC's breadcrumb menu as shown by beb