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dcwul62:

Hi Folks,

I need to move a lot (i mean a LOT) of files that all look like these:

Some FileName 1888-0010 31121888.pdf
Some FileName 1888-0009 31121888.pdf
Some FileName 1888-0008 31121888.pdf
Some FileName 1888-0007 31121888.pdf
Some FileName 1888-0006 31121888.pdf
Some FileName 1888-0005 31121888.pdf
Some FileName 1888-0004 31121888.pdf
Some FileName 1974-0360 31121974.pdf
Some FileName 1974-0361 31121974.pdf
Some FileName 1975-0001 31121975.pdf
Some FileName 1975-0002 31121975.pdf
Some FileName 1975-0003 31121975.pdf

to subfolders named after the first 3 words, like these


Some FileName 1888
Some FileName 1974
Some FileName 1975

Any suggestions??

thanks
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tomos:
(just for the record) something comparable was requested lately:

Hello. Would it be possible to add a feature to find common text between files and use that as an name for the folder?
eg we have  files
[Chemistry] Workbook 01.rar
[Chemistry] Workbook 02.rar
[Chemistry] Workbook 03.rar
So the new folder is named [Chemistry] Workbook.-xd1986k (November 15, 2014, 10:26 AM)
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This is doable.  However, in your example, technically, the common text would be "[Chemistry] Workbook 0" right?
-skwire (November 15, 2014, 09:48 PM)
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4wd:
Um, you have DOpus why don't you just rename them into the folders?

dcwul62:
Wonderful!!

I have been puzzling about this whole morning!
Really, I could not figure this out.

Thank you so much. This way is soo much easier indeed.

After trying this that and I don't what (even went as far as to download the drag and drop utility from this site, but left that, cud not figure out how it works)
I just now figured out a context menu item like this Rename REGEXP PATTERN "(.+\d{4})-(\d{4})(\s)(\d{8})\.(.+)" TO \1\\\0
which is much more complicated.


Regretfully the setfoldate would not work here.

Some FileName 1888-0010 31121888.pdf
Some FileName 1888-0009 31121888.pdf
Some FileName 1888-0008 31121888.pdf

results in folder
Some filename   (without year)

So I had to try and figure out something else.

Thanks
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4wd:
I just now figured out a context menu item like this Rename REGEXP PATTERN "(.+\d{4})-(\d{4})(\s)(\d{8})\.(.+)" TO \1\\\0
which is much more complicated.-dcwul62 (November 25, 2014, 07:09 AM)
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Why did you make it so complicated?

Regretfully the setfoldate would not work here.
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Why would it, they're files not folders.

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