Author Topic: DONE: make folder set out of a txt file (Read 169,261 times)

Renegade · « **Reply #25 on:** May 11, 2012, 06:05 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!

sazzen · « **Reply #26 on:** May 11, 2012, 01:26 PM »

On Dottech today!

skwire · « **Reply #27 on:** May 11, 2012, 06:29 PM »

Nice. Thanks for the heads

skwire · « **Reply #28 on:** May 26, 2012, 12:58 AM »

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.

mouser · « **Reply #29 on:** June 08, 2012, 06:31 PM »

Mentioned on Raymond.cc today:
http://www.raymond.cc/blog/create-multiple-folders-once-text2folders/

skwire · « **Reply #30 on:** June 08, 2012, 07:36 PM »

Cool, thanks for the heads up.

rogerrabbit · « **Reply #31 on:** October 09, 2012, 10:01 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

skwire · « **Reply #32 on:** October 10, 2012, 07:59 PM »

Hi, rogerrabbit, and welcome to the DonationCoder site.

Quote from: rogerrabbit on October 09, 2012, 10:01 AM

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.

rogerrabbit · « **Reply #33 on:** October 11, 2012, 10:40 AM »

Hi,
Wow - that would be great - I will indeed stay tuned!
Thank you.
Roger

skwire · « **Reply #34 on:** October 16, 2012, 10:07 PM »

Here you go. Apologies for taking so long.

Website | Download v1.1.0 - 2012-10-16 + Added ability to specify a date/timestamp token for use when creating folders. (Thanks, rogerrabbit)

rogerrabbit · « **Reply #35 on:** October 17, 2012, 10:07 AM »

Hi,
Brilliant - thank you so very much!
Roger

skwire · « **Reply #36 on:** October 17, 2012, 11:07 AM »

You're very welcome.

I assume you were able to make it work how you like?

rogerrabbit · « **Reply #37 on:** October 17, 2012, 11:28 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

mandolin · « **Reply #38 on:** October 24, 2012, 04:56 PM »

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

skwire · « **Reply #39 on:** October 25, 2012, 03:46 PM »

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

mouser · « **Reply #40 on:** October 25, 2012, 03:47 PM »

I like mandolin's idea of supporting tabs to create subfolders.

mandolin · « **Reply #41 on:** October 28, 2012, 10:28 AM »

Quote from: mouser on October 25, 2012, 03:47 PM

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).

milo77 · « **Reply #42 on:** July 07, 2013, 12:20 AM »

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!

skwire · « **Reply #43 on:** July 07, 2013, 01:13 AM »

Quote from: milo77 on July 07, 2013, 12:20 AM

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.

pauly365 · « **Reply #44 on:** November 20, 2013, 12:34 PM »

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?

skwire · « **Reply #45 on:** November 20, 2013, 04:21 PM »

Hi, pauly365, and welcome to the DonationCoder site.

Quote from: pauly365 on November 20, 2013, 12:34 PM

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.

pauly365 · « **Reply #46 on:** November 21, 2013, 12:25 PM »

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.

skwire · « **Reply #47 on:** November 21, 2013, 04:20 PM »

Quote from: pauly365 on November 21, 2013, 12:25 PM

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. =]

TaoPhoenix · « **Reply #48 on:** November 21, 2013, 07:18 PM »

I'll have to this program sometime! : )

tomos · « **Reply #49 on:** November 21, 2013, 09:20 PM »

Quote from: TaoPhoenix on November 21, 2013, 07:18 PM

I'll have to this program sometime! : )

getting very zen again there Tao :-)