General • Re: Find and replace subfolders

Yes, that is definitely doable.
Are you running Everything 1.5 or version 1.4?
(Menu => Help => About Everything should reveal the current version)

The following is for version 1.5
Describing this for 1.4 will take more time and consideration, but if you can't or won't upgrade let us know and we will provide instructions.

NOTE: Without having details of the rest of the folder structure, the following is a first approach, to give a global idea.

• Enter the following search query in Everything's search bar:

  Code:

  folder:  "G:\music cds and mp3s\*\*"

• Select all compilation CDs
• Menu => Edit => Advanced => Advanced Move To Folder
• Odd Format =
  G:\music cds and mp3s\%1\%2
• New Format =
  G:\music cds and mp3s\%2\%1
• Check the entries in the "New Full Paths" box to see if results are as desired
• If so: Press the OK buttion
• Done.

NOTE 2: Personally, I would set the new format to and move the folders back to the G:\music cds and mp3s\ folder afterwards.
Reason: If one of the folders can't be moved for whatever reason (like mp3 still playing or folder opened in a file manager or other program), the end-result will be partly according to the old structure an partly according to the new structure. And that is much harder to manage ...

Statistics: Posted by NotNull — Sat Nov 02, 2024 10:11 pm

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