folder organization

  1. ChatGPT

    Mastering File Organization in Windows 11: Sort Files and Folders Effectively

    Introduction In the bustling digital ecosystems we navigate daily, organization is key to maintaining productivity and peace of mind. With the recent updates to Windows 11, many users have found themselves grappling with how to effectively sort and display files and folders together within File...
  2. J

    Move all subfolders from parent folder to a new unique created folder in the target location

    Hi I made this batch code, to move all subfolders from "C:\1" to a new created folder inside folder "C:\2" @echo off set "sourceDir=C:\1" set "destinationDir=C:\2" set "newFolderName=NewSubfolder" mkdir "%destinationDir%\%newFolderName%" 2nul for /D %%I in ("%sourceDir%\*") do (...
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    Windows 10 Windows Media Player

    I have digitized some LPs. I am saving them to This PC >C>users>wclif>music in there own folder by artist. I went this way for 2 reasons - I don't want to use OneDrive and when I checked the properties of most of the existing music in Media Player it said it was here. The problem is that...
  4. Rich73Kelly

    Windows 10 Large folders: files keep jumping back to first column

    First things first, I guess ... Dell Optiplex 3010 with 8gb of RAM. Intel i5 Processor. came stock with Windows 7 Pro, upgraded to Win 10 Pro. any other details needed, I will be happy to provide. I will do my best to have this make sense to all ... I have a few different folders of music...
  5. A

    Windows 10 Setting up Drive Partitions for Installing Windows 10

    Initial OS Windows XP. 250Gb HDD, 1 Partition C:. 4/2014 upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium. Still using single partition 250Gb C:. A year ago experienced various hangups and performance issues. Ran SeaTools by Seagate. Had HDD failures on long tests. Installed Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250Gb using...
  6. codypearce

    OneNote file problem

    I moved my one note folder in my documents when organizing folders, not realizing that it would break the connection with the program. I then move it back to the default My documents/One note notebooks but when I go to open the notebooks in One Note 2010 I only have all the separate folders and...
  7. P

    Windows 7 Is it possible to copy individual video files in a folder to its own folder enmasse?

    I have a large number of video files in a folder but I need to put them into individual folders so I can use my media players jukebox function, anyone have a programme that could do this? FOUND THE ANSWER; PLEASE CLOSE THIS THREAD.
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    Windows 8 Folder & File structure of Windows 8.1: This PC vs Local Disk (C:) > Users

    Hey all, I'm in the process of organizing the data explosion that are my files and folders and until recently had been using the "Library" focused Windows 7. I'm working with a different PC now which has Windows 8.1 as its OS. I'm a little confused by 8.1's lack of "Library" filing structure...
  9. C

    Windows 7 Thousands of files in "Music" Library - Windows 7 Pro

    One of the four basic Libraries is Music. I found thousands (yes!) files in that Library, most of them I have no idea about and have absolutely nothing to do with music. Windows said they are references and deleting them will not remove the actual file from the PC. I found that incorrect, I...
  10. sirloyne

    Windows 7 Play All

    I have all of my music on my D drive on my laptop and I use Foobar portable as my music player. I have foobar set up as my default player for ALL music formats (Flac, Ape, Alac, MP3...). If I go into my music folder and open a band folder (thank you microsoft for not letting me goup my 600...
  11. 7UP

    Windows 7 corrupt file hunter / killer

    hi all! If you're like me, sometimes corrupt files make navigating a folder a huge headache. I'm trying to organize thousands of files, and amalgamate all files onto one hard drive. What I would like, is some app, or method, that tracks down potential problem files, and deletes them or...
  12. A

    Windows 7 How to arrange the display of folders in a custom library?

    Hi Everyone, I created a custom library "Camping Photos". I have images stored in folders on a spinner and on my SSD. I've included the folders in my library, but I don't like the order in which they are displayed within the library. Can I change this? I tried using the "Arrange By" drop down...
  13. M

    Windows 7 Problems with importing emails into Windows Live Mail

    I have exported the emails and now I want to import them in the new OS. I have all necessarily accounts and folders but emails are imported in a new folder named "Storage folders". How to do: emails would import into accounts folders?
  14. K

    Windows 7 how to arrange files in a folder

    With previous versions of Windows, I was able to arrange file in a folder by type of file, by date file was created, etc. I can't figure out how to do this in Win 7.
  15. MikeHawthorne

    Windows 7 You discover something new every day!

    Hi everyone! Well it's bothered me for a long time that when I want to load a file into some program for an ongoing project I have to navigate through, Desktop\Computer\Drive D:\Parent Folder\job folder\category folder and finely to the file I want, even though I've been using the same folder...
  16. MikeHawthorne

    Windows 7 Another thing that I find really helpful for me!

    Hi I love applying custom icons to my folders in Windows Explorer, it's amazing how much this helps my find things quickly. I'm 73 and my eyes aren't what they once were, (I think it's time for a new set of computer glasses) I don't like trying to read all that little type in Windows Explorer...
  17. M

    Windows 7 Temp staging files for copying later-folder pointers

    I have a lot of directories that need to be transported via USB drive later (the files/folders vary each time). I want the files to remain in their original location, but have some kind of folder or structure where I can group the folders so that when I need to copy them, it is a simple matter...
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    Windows 7 HELP! file extension issues

    Can anyone tell me what an AVI.index file is, or how about a jpg.file. Every time I move a picture, video, or audio file from folder to folder these index files and jpg.files go too. If I upload 300 pictures to a folder it ends up with 600 files in it, one jpg.file for every pic, one AVI.index...
  19. D

    Windows 7 Find Folder

    Search for folder - [no joy in the discussion thread, so thought I'd try here] This seems really simple, and makes me feel pretty stupid, but I want to search for folders with a certain name without getting all the contents of the folders in the search results. I've tried just entering the...
  20. M

    Windows 7 Looking for a solution to this problem

    Hello all, I am currently looking for a way to make windows 7 always hide *.sfk, sfl, and .vf.bak files which sony vegas creates everytime you save a video file. When you do a bunch of video editing and audio mixing it puts these files in the same folder as my renders Its very annoying...
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