is there a easy way to put videos into individual folders

haveaniceday · 26 Jan 2011 at 17:26

is there a easy way to put videos into individual folders with out donig them one by one . so it will be name of film and the film inside the folder . cheers

Pho · 26 Jan 2011 at 18:16

If your files are named properly already then stick this in a file called 'sort.bat' in the folder where your files are, double-click it and hope for the best

:

Code:

@ECHO OFF
FOR /f "tokens=1-2 delims=." %%A IN ('dir /b *.avi') DO (
	mkdir "%%A"
	move "%%A.%%B" "%%A"
)

(change avi to whatever format you want)

Basically for each .avi file in your folder it makes a directory called the name of the file and then moves the file into that directory.

SiriusB · 26 Jan 2011 at 18:24

Aww, beaten to it by Pho. Though I was going to suggest PowerShell!

Code:

gci -filter *.avi | % { new-item -ItemType directory -Name $_.BaseName; Move-Item $_ (Join-Path $_.BaseName $_.Name)}

Pho's is probably easier to do!

haveaniceday · 26 Jan 2011 at 18:31

no good the file came up with sort ran it as administer nothing happened using win 7 64bit .cheers

SiriusB · 26 Jan 2011 at 18:43

Create a new file called sort.bat in the folder with all your .avi files.
Open the file
Paste in the code from Pho's post
Save
Double-click file to run it.

SiriusB · 26 Jan 2011 at 18:57

haveaniceday said:
no good the file came up with sort ran it as administer nothing happened using win 7 64bit .cheers

I run Windows 7 64 and Pho's and my scripts work perfectly for the problem you describe.

haveaniceday · 26 Jan 2011 at 19:00

Create a new file called sort.bat done in notebook still not running small black screen pop up for i sec and that's it

SiriusB · 26 Jan 2011 at 19:44

Are you running it in the folder containing the .avi files?

Pho · 26 Jan 2011 at 19:51

SiriusB said:
Aww, beaten to it by Pho. Though I was going to suggest PowerShell!

Powershell is on my list of things to learn. I like the pretty blue screen

.

If you use:

Code:

@ECHO OFF
FOR /f "tokens=1-2 delims=." %%A IN ('dir /b *.avi') DO (
	mkdir "%%A"
	move "%%A.%%B" "%%A"
)
pause

You should be able to see any error messages without the window closing. I'm on Windows 7 x64 too and it works.

haveaniceday · 26 Jan 2011 at 19:52

the files are not on my c drive Internal Hard Drives f. is there another way off doing it like free software . cheers

Pho · 26 Jan 2011 at 20:05

It should work fine running on different drives.. here's a before and after running from drive d:

SiriusB · 26 Jan 2011 at 20:15

haveaniceday said:
the files are not on my c drive Internal Hard Drives f. is there another way off doing it like free software . cheers

The script doesn't care what drive it is run from. As long as it is in the same folder as your .avi files. Are you sure they are .avi? Like Pho said, if they're not .avi, change it to .divx, .xvid, .mkv, .wmv or whatever video file type they are.

Can we see a screenshot of the folder you are trying to organize?