Merging folders in Windows?

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