move multiple sub folders up into the same folder as their parent folders in one action

casyeye

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Hi all, I an trying to combine my music collection into a single folder on my hard drive, which I've named "Music". The problem I am facing is that over the years I have used a variety of different music players and their associated music storage systems. This has resulted in music being saved in two ways. I have folders labeled by artists name containing sub-folders labeled with their album names and other folders labeled with just the album name. What I'm aiming for is having all my music in folders labeled with just th album name.

I can open each folder and drag and drop the sub folder into the folder named "music" but that will take forever as there are about six thousand of these sub-folders (a good many of which are doubles anyway). If there is some way I can gather up all the sub folders and drop them into the music folder together in one go it would save an enormous amount of time and frustration.

If anyone could point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated. If you need more information I can provide it. Thanks heaps, Richard
 
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If all the files are the same type of file, such as MP3, you could search "MP3" in your root directory and all MP3 files should appear in the search result, by which you can select them all with Ctrl-a, copy, and paste them into a new music folder.

Or maybe there is a program that maybe could help with this. The only other solution is to program a script to do it for you.
If all the files are the same type of file, such as MP3, you could search "MP3" in your root directory and all MP3 files should appear in the search result, by which you can select them all with Ctrl-a, copy, and paste them into a new music folder.

Or maybe there is a program that maybe could help with this. The only other solution is to program a script to do it for you.
 
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