folder sorting software?

[Droc]

Im wondering if anyone can help me out here.

I have a decent collection of videos on my server of around 10TB.
Each video is in its own folder, spread out among a handful of drives.

finding specific videos has proven to be very time consuming.

What I need is something that can sort all the videos into alphabetical folders.
So instead of having one folder with a few thousand files, I have folders A-Z and files sorted accordingly.

I know I could do this myself, but Im wondering if there is some special management software out there that can save me the time?

 

[jiminator]

install cygwin,
open a command shell and do something like:

for x in c:/oldpath/*/*; do y=`basename "$x" | awk '{print substr($0,1,1)}'`; mkdir c:/newpath/$y; mv "$x" c:/newpath/$y; done

it could be done in other shells, or windows, but I mostly use unix

 

[Droc]

Thanks, but that seems totally over my head.

 

[redrage]

check out the forfiles command

something like:

forfiles /M a* /s /C "cmd /c copy @file d:\newfiles\a"

run this cmd in the base directory and it will copy every file and each file in the subdirectory (and directoryies themselves) that begins with the letter a to d:\newfiles\a

BEWARE as example is written it will overwrite duplicate filenames

I'm sure you could automate it further forfiles i think also has a way to check if a file name is a directory or not as well, you'll have to play with it a bit, but should be enough to get you started

 

[dogbert_2001]

Use the search bar?

You can add your folders to a library to make searching faster.
You can also customize the folder view to General Items, instead of Videos, so that it shows up faster.

I don't really get what alphabetical folders do for you. You can already sort alphabetically, and you must already know what you're looking for if you know the first letter.