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Re: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file
« Reply #25 on: May 11, 2012, 01:05 AM »
Hmmm... Would have saved me some time a while back if I'd have know about it. I wrote an application to do the same thing! :P
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Re: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file
« Reply #26 on: May 11, 2012, 08:26 AM »
On Dottech today!

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Re: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file
« Reply #27 on: May 11, 2012, 01:29 PM »
Nice.  Thanks for the heads :up:

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Re: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file
« Reply #28 on: May 25, 2012, 07:58 PM »
Website | Download
v1.0.8 - 2012-05-25
    + Added commandline parameters as follows:
   
        Text2Folders.exe "<root path>" "<input text file path>" [-q]
   
      The -q parameter is for quiet mode, i.e., no GUI will appear.

v1.0.7 - 2012-05-18
    + Made main form resizable.

v1.0.6 - 2012-03-26
    + Added horizontal scrollbar to manual edit field.

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Re: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file
« Reply #29 on: June 08, 2012, 01:31 PM »
Mentioned on Raymond.cc today:
http://www.raymond.c...s-once-text2folders/

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Re: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file
« Reply #30 on: June 08, 2012, 02:36 PM »
Cool, thanks for the heads up.

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Re: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file
« Reply #31 on: October 09, 2012, 05:01 AM »
Hi,
Is there any way that the current date can be added automatically to the folder name?
(I suspect not, but as I'm not a programmer don't know unless I ask).
It's really useful software, even if this cannot be done.
Many thanks.
Roger

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Re: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file
« Reply #32 on: October 10, 2012, 02:59 PM »
Hi, rogerrabbit, and welcome to the DonationCoder site.

Is there any way that the current date can be added automatically to the folder name?

Not currently, but I certainly could add the functionality.  Stay tuned.   :D

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Re: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file
« Reply #33 on: October 11, 2012, 05:40 AM »
Hi,
Wow - that would be great - I will indeed stay tuned!
Thank you.
Roger

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Re: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file
« Reply #34 on: October 16, 2012, 05:07 PM »
Here you go.  Apologies for taking so long.   :-[

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    + Added ability to specify a date/timestamp token for use when creating folders.  (Thanks, rogerrabbit)

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Re: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file
« Reply #35 on: October 17, 2012, 05:07 AM »
Hi,
Brilliant - thank you so very much!
Roger

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Re: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file
« Reply #36 on: October 17, 2012, 06:07 AM »
You're very welcome.   :D  I assume you were able to make it work how you like?

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Re: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file
« Reply #37 on: October 17, 2012, 06:28 AM »
Hi,
I could thank you - you have made it very easy indeed to configure thanks to the additional help you have built in.
Works great!
I'll keep an eye out on SnapFiles, where I first found it, and if it's updated on there I will definitely be posting a 5 star review.
Thanks again - I'm really grateful.
Roger

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Re: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file
« Reply #38 on: October 24, 2012, 11:56 AM »
Hi,thanks a lot.That`s the tool for me.
and could you add a function that the text format can accept such like this:

----------begin------------
folder1
   subfolder1
   subfolder2
      subsubfolder2
   subfolder3
----------end------------

The blank character or the tab character

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Re: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file
« Reply #39 on: October 25, 2012, 10:46 AM »
Hi, mandolin, and welcome to the DonationCoder site.  Let me give your request some thought.  You are aware you can create subfolders by using backslashes, right?  For example, to create your example above, you could use:

c:\folder1\subfolder1
c:\folder1\subfolder2\subsubfolder2
c:\folder1\subfolder3

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Re: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file
« Reply #40 on: October 25, 2012, 10:47 AM »
I like mandolin's idea of supporting tabs to create subfolders.

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Re: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file
« Reply #41 on: October 28, 2012, 05:28 AM »
I like mandolin's idea of supporting tabs to create subfolders.
Thanks.
I think , when I want to quickly build a tree folder structure from a text, the most efficient way is using the tabs(or blanks).


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Re: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file
« Reply #42 on: July 06, 2013, 07:20 PM »
I love this program. Simple and effective, thank you Skwire!!
Nobody has pointed out the delight I discovered. Case scenario:
As a photographer, I had an old memory card that had files in numerical order as in 123-123-123. I dumped the contents into a single folder that already contained some folders in a numerical structure. I was concerned about overwrites of existing folders with the exact same folder name. Example: TXT file created included folders 23, 24, 25. So did the target directory, and those folders contained images;many. Here's the beauty of Text2Folder. It simply created the folders and kept the existing contents intact without ever asking if folders need to be replaced etc...Wonderful!!! Meaning I did not need to concern myself with redundant folder names! You sir are a photographers best friend! Thank you, you rock!  :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:

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Re: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file
« Reply #43 on: July 06, 2013, 08:13 PM »
I love this program. Simple and effective, thank you Skwire!!

You are very welcome and thanks for taking the time to join DonationCoder.  Based on what you said about copying/moving photos into various destination folders, you might want to take a look at another one of my applications called File Punter.

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Re: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file
« Reply #44 on: November 20, 2013, 06:34 AM »
A very helpful program for me.
But - as you can see from the attached documents - I have a problem with German umlauts. Is this the result of your program or my Windows 8.1 settings?

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Re: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file
« Reply #45 on: November 20, 2013, 10:21 AM »
Hi, pauly365, and welcome to the DonationCoder site.   :D

Is this the result of your program or my Windows 8.1 settings?

Which input method are you using?  If it's the text file method, please ensure you're saving your text file in UTF-8 format.

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Re: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file
« Reply #46 on: November 21, 2013, 06:25 AM »
Hi skwire, thank you for your help.

Saving the text file in "Wordpad" with the Unicode option solves the problem. I think that in my multi step process producing the file UTF-8 encoding was lost and the "Editor" gave me no choice to save it as Unicode.

Thanks again.




 

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Re: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file
« Reply #47 on: November 21, 2013, 10:20 AM »
Hi skwire, thank you for your help.

Saving the text file in "Wordpad" with the Unicode option solves the problem.

You are very welcome.  Thank you for reporting back.  =]

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Re: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file
« Reply #48 on: November 21, 2013, 01:18 PM »

I'll have to this program sometime! : )


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Re: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file
« Reply #49 on: November 21, 2013, 03:20 PM »
I'll have to this program sometime! : )

getting very zen again there Tao :-)
Tom