Targeting file types from arbitrarily nested folders?
Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2021 10:26 amI have a folder with 100s of nested folders of varying depth. In these folders are images, videos, gifs etc.
I would like to create rules that essentially search this folder for various files types and move them to another folder entirely, disregarding their initial folder structure.
In other words, the above would end up:
I understand I will likely need 1-rule-per-filetype which is fine, but I'm having trouble figuring out if/how to do this. I've read through the "nested conditions" and "processing subfolders" documentation, but I'm not sure how I can target specific filetypes when using the "any of its subfiles or subfolders".
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/Folder
/Folder/01/A.jpg
/Folder/01/B.mp4
/Folder/C.gif
/Folder/02/03/D.jpg
/Folder/02/04/E.mp4
...
I would like to create rules that essentially search this folder for various files types and move them to another folder entirely, disregarding their initial folder structure.
In other words, the above would end up:
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/Images/A.jpg
/Images/D.jpg
/Videos/B.mp4
/Videos/E.mp4
/GIFs/C.gif
...
I understand I will likely need 1-rule-per-filetype which is fine, but I'm having trouble figuring out if/how to do this. I've read through the "nested conditions" and "processing subfolders" documentation, but I'm not sure how I can target specific filetypes when using the "any of its subfiles or subfolders".