Merging folders in Windows?

Energize · 15 Jun 2012 at 20:17

How do I merge folders in Windows 7? I have a load of folders with many files each and I want to put all the files into one folder.

Sin_Chase · 15 Jun 2012 at 20:25

Are all the multiple folders under one root folder or all over the place?

If they all live under one root folder you can do a search on that root folder for *, wait for it to list all file, select all, cut/copy and paste into a new single folder.

Energize · 16 Jun 2012 at 18:30

Thanks. Can't believe how slow windows is at doing it though.

Energize · 16 Jun 2012 at 19:40

Actually now it seems that windows has only moved 1/3 of the files for some reason. Also says 0x80070052.

Energize · 23 Jun 2012 at 20:08

Found out that the cause was that for some stupid reason windows can't have more than ~22,000 files in a folder. Rather than informing me of this it gave me a cryptic error message, thanks for a well designed user friendly os Microsoft. (!)