Moving subfolders based on files but keep parent folder name
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2017 9:36 amI have been using the subfolders option sort of successfully to sort through a few TB of backups of backups across multiple drives.
Once issue I have found is that I am losing some context.
e.g. Move all photos within any directory from <Drive A> to <Drive B>\movedByHazel\
If the folder the photo was found in was A:\Photos\Backups\OlderBackups\"My Vacation December 2015", it would be useful to move "My Vacation December 2015" to B:\movedByHazel\"My Vacation December 2015" instead.
The folder my contain both Videos and Photos and Music though, so the preference would be to do something like:
Photos > B:\movedByHazel\"My Vacation December 2015"
Videos > C:\movedByHazel\"My Vacation December 2015" (I'm trying to build an iMovie/FCPX drive)
Music > D:\movedByHazel\"My Vacation December 2015"
Once I've deduplicated my drives, I'd like to embed this folder meta data into the images and videos in particular and adopt a LightRoom style folder structure (something like Year / Month / Day) and use tags and meta data to find relevant photos/videos.
I've tried to set up a rule such as:
"If any of the following conditions are met:"
"Extension is mov"
"Extension is wmv"
"Extension is m4v"
Do the following to the matched file or folder:
"Sort into subfolder" with pattern "source folder"
"Move" to folder: "MovedByHazel"
Unfortunately this isn't actually moving the sorted folder, it's moving the file instead.
I'm sure it's a dead simple fix I'll be kicking myself over, but if anyone could help, I'd appreciate it!
Once issue I have found is that I am losing some context.
e.g. Move all photos within any directory from <Drive A> to <Drive B>\movedByHazel\
If the folder the photo was found in was A:\Photos\Backups\OlderBackups\"My Vacation December 2015", it would be useful to move "My Vacation December 2015" to B:\movedByHazel\"My Vacation December 2015" instead.
The folder my contain both Videos and Photos and Music though, so the preference would be to do something like:
Photos > B:\movedByHazel\"My Vacation December 2015"
Videos > C:\movedByHazel\"My Vacation December 2015" (I'm trying to build an iMovie/FCPX drive)
Music > D:\movedByHazel\"My Vacation December 2015"
Once I've deduplicated my drives, I'd like to embed this folder meta data into the images and videos in particular and adopt a LightRoom style folder structure (something like Year / Month / Day) and use tags and meta data to find relevant photos/videos.
I've tried to set up a rule such as:
"If any of the following conditions are met:"
"Extension is mov"
"Extension is wmv"
"Extension is m4v"
Do the following to the matched file or folder:
"Sort into subfolder" with pattern "source folder"
"Move" to folder: "MovedByHazel"
Unfortunately this isn't actually moving the sorted folder, it's moving the file instead.
I'm sure it's a dead simple fix I'll be kicking myself over, but if anyone could help, I'd appreciate it!
