Flatten Folder Menu - Adds "Flatten" context menu to folders (v0.2.0)

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Flatten Folder Menu

Adds "Flatten" context menu to folders in Windows Explorer.



⬇️ Downloads:

• FlattenFolderMenu_v0-2-0.zip @ DCmembers.com (Mouser's site, recommended! )
• FlattenFolderMenu_v0-2-0.zip @ GitHub tag

Made for: nkormanik, Pbx01, justW3.

Original thread: contextmenu addon feature (alike LevelZap)

Usage video:


Source code: Flatten folder menu @ GitHub

Targets Microsoft .NET framework v4.5

v0.2.0:

• Add AlphaFS library for long path support.

v0.1.1:

• Add/Remove via button.
• Detects current active status.
• One-click menu operation.

Day #106, Week #15 @ April 16, 2023

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Release supporters:

• Jesse Reichler (A.K.A. Mouser from DonationCoder.com)
• Max P.
• Kathryn S.
• Cranioscopical
• Tomos
• luvnbeast
• nkormanik
• Will you be our next supporter?

💗 Support:

One-time Paypal @ https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/victorvls
Our Patreon page @ www.patreon.com/publicdomain.
Email/Paypal: publicdomainvic@gmail.com

Thanks & keep on rocking! 👍
Vic

[tomos]

For completeness I added a link to here in the other thread

[publicdomain]

Thank you Tom! Appreciated

For completeness I added a link to here in the other thread

[nkormanik]

Victor, three questions:

1.  How does Flatten Folder deal with same-name files?

2.  What is the upper limit number of files that can be processed that have the same name?

3.  What is the upper limit number of total files that can be processed?

Thanks!

Nicholas Kormanik

[publicdomain]

Hello & good day! There you go:

1.  How does Flatten Folder deal with same-name files?

Renames by adding a string based on epoch + file index in the batch.

2.  What is the upper limit number of files that can be processed that have the same name?

As many as needed.

3.  What is the upper limit number of total files that can be processed?

No upper limit! --As much as your computer can handle

Cheers! 

[nkormanik]

This is golden, Vic!  I've used it now many times.  Super fast.  Feedback when finished.

Used another, more kludgy, method for years.  And your solution is vastly better.

Hope lots of people out there somehow come to learn of your gem.

Thanks!!

[nkormanik]

One possible enhancement request, Vic!:

If a directory tree to be flattened has a branch that exceeds 260 characters, Flatten falters.  A polite message is popped onscreen to that effect.

Then I have to try to shorten said path, and/or filename.  If user does that, Flatten fulfills flawlessly.

By the way, I've set my 'registry' to overlook long path/filenames.

Flatten still chokes... at least in perhaps a pre-do check... on long path+filename.

So, the request is, any other workaround besides manually trimming the troublemakers?

Thanks again!!

[publicdomain]

Thanks for your kind words of appreciation Nick

So, the request is, any other workaround besides manually trimming the troublemakers?

Yes. It should be possible to catch & fix those automatically.

Cheers!

[nkormanik]

Vic!, putting up another request.  In the new requests section....

[publicdomain]

Vic!, putting up another request.  In the new requests section....

Hi Nick! About to be released, along with BGGFetch.

[nkormanik]

Recently flattened a rather large hierarchy of files using Vic's program here.

Over 48,000 files.

Flatten did the job wonderfully!

[justW3]

Made for Pbx01, justW3.

thank you so much for creating this. it's so helpful and works just as I need it to. waited a looog time for someone to meet this need but well worth the wait. perfect! 

[nkormanik]

Enhancement Requests (again):

1.  Long path issues still a big problem.  Preferred would be to deal with as many files as possible before quitting when finding that one or more files has a path length problem.  Seems presently that FFM looks through folder to be flattened, and gives up as soon as a long folder/file path length issue is noticed.  Please, just keep chugging on, and tell user at the very end that long folder/file path length issue was observed, and couldn't flatten just those files, but everything else was a success.

2.  Receive error message, Can't flatten if file already exists.  Please simply add a number suffix to any files that same-named file already exist.  This was supposedly already the case, however.  Maybe I'm missing something.

Thanks Victor!

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Roger that Nick!

[KodeZwerg]

I was unaware of this project, but found a bug for you to fix
Your Tool is unable to remove folders that have flags set for readonly and crash. 
Your Tool is unable to register context menu when it was copied to a windows protected folder like \Program Files\
(I mean, it does lie to me, it say it can not register but infact it does register, error pops up because it can not write an icon file)

[publicdomain]

I was unaware of this project, but found a bug for you to fix

Thanks for your report Bug fixes on the way 

[publicdomain]

First post was updated to reflect Flatten Folder Menu v0.2.0:

⬇️ Downloads:

• FlattenFolderMenu_v0-2-0.zip @ DCmembers.com (Mouser's site, recommended! )
• FlattenFolderMenu_v0-2-0.zip @ GitHub tag