Deleting folder without deleting its' contents

Your question makes no sense. The contents of a folder will be gone if the folder is deleted. Has been like that since the 1st PC.

OK, but you can't delete the folder, because that will also delete the songs. You first have to move the songs from that folder to wherever they originally were for iTunes. On my PC, it's My Documents/My Music/iTunes/iTunes Music where I can see all my album folders.

yes,right click an option "remove selected folders,keep contents" yes it has been like that since the first computer. how stupid.its a logical command,remove groupings

I might be missing something, but can't you just use Search.

Go to the Main Folder > click on Search > type in *.* > hit Enter > then sort the results by Type (the folders will be at the top and the files will be below them) > then just copy and paste what you want

copy what to what ?
be patient, learner

thomas read the OP's post and his original question. It makes no sense like n3four noted. I echo what toshi91 replied to you're earlier question about you're music files:

what i want is that when i open" my music" i see only files.not folders,that the files,now in folders shed the folders.

500 times?

Assuming that all your music files are within this folder "My Documents/My Music" and that they are all MP3 files, then:

1: Go to My Documents/My Music
2: Click on Search at the top
3: In the Search Box, type in: *.mp3
4: Hit enter or click on Search
5: After it's done searching, hit: Ctrl-A (select all)
6: Copy everything and paste it in the Main folder
7: It might ask you if you want to replace some of the files, just click on Yes to All.

they are not all mp3s

First, let me say i understand the issue; something that seems lost on many replies.

For clarification, the OP wishes to simply remove ALL files that have been nested in directories and subdirectories of the 'music' directory by the music application to the root of the 'music' directory. For whatever reason, it is easier for the OP this way. It is not for me to judge.

next, the last reply is correct. I just thought i'd type up a n000b hand-held version of the simplest, non-CLI way i can think of completing the task. it involves opening one or two explorer windows, performing an advanced search, and drag/dropping the results to the final destination. Note, this is from XP Pro, but should be very similar in most flavors of windows.

1. open the music folder (the directory where you ultimately want all of your loose files to reside--My Documents/My Music most likely)

2. click the Start button (lower left of the screen) then Search -> for Files & Folders

3. in the left pane, choose the little green arrow pointing to 'all files and folders'

4. Use the 'look in' pulldown menu to select 'browse'; choose the 'My Music' directory inside 'My Documents'

5. leave the 'all or part of the file name' field blank
[post edited for clarity]

6. click search

7. that will show ALL files in the directory, including the directories. click the grey header named 'type' to sort the results.

8. with the results sorted, you can easily select all the music files by click-dragging a box around them without selecting the unwanted directories as well.

9. with the music files selected, click and drag them to the folder/directory you opened in step 1.

10. with all the files now in the root of the 'My Music' directory, click the 'type' column of the 'My Music' directory to easily select the empty folders.

11. drag them to the bin

actually in step 5 i was trying to call out just a single dot.

but, in practice i discovered explorer will not search for the dot. but, no it was not inteded to be a *.* wildcard search, though that would work fine, leaving the field completely blank will yield the desired results.

sorry for the confusion. i will edit the post for clarity.

If you can't right click on them, then all you have to do is hit Ctrl-Insert. That's the hotkey for copy.