folderorganiser a way to unnest subdirectories

[wdegroot]

this program was suggested to me on photo.net. as they accumulate lots of picture files
and the current windows tools are pretty clunky.

this should be a useful tool for everytone running windows. but something for DOS would be preferred.
IS this something everyone has neglected to be aware of ?
I found the later version of "remove directory"
I guess my thinking is still DOScentric.
and I keep xtree handy as it deletes thins that nothing else can do.
I am in the midst or copying over 300 ?" cd's to hard drives so they can be sorted and re-burned on newer media. I do not walt to lose those gems from the 1980's

 

[Ole Juul]

this program was suggested to me on photo.net.

What program?

I found the later version of "remove directory"

I use mostly the old DOS utilities that were ported (or copied) from UNIX. Two of my most used ones are rn and rm. They both work exactly as one would expect. rn renames anything - including directories. rm removes anything, including directories. If files are hidden, system, or read only, just use the -f switch to force it. I put both here for you, if you want to try. (Warning: 8Kb download!)

I guess my thinking is still DOScentric.

The only way to go!

 

[wdegroot]

http://www.folder-organiser.com-about.com/
I think this is it.
rename directories?
xtree or 32 bit ztree use both all the time

 

[Chuck(G)]

I use mostly the old DOS utilities that were ported (or copied) from UNIX. Two of my most used ones are rn and rm. They both work exactly as one would expect. rn renames anything - including directories. rm removes anything, including directories. If files are hidden, system, or read only, just use the -f switch to force it. I put both here for you, if you want to try. (Warning: 8Kb download!)

What's wrong with good old DOS DELTREE?

 

[Ole Juul]

What's wrong with good old DOS DELTREE?

That might work for wdegroot, but it is quite limited. For one thing I'm not sure it will do system, hidden, or read only files. For another it lacks switches for no echo and force, so is not so good for batch file usage. I also find that using one command to do all "remove" actions is handy, rather than using several utilities. Anyway, it sounds like wdegroot is working in MS-Windows and not just DOS, so all this could be moot.

 

[Chuck(G)]

Well if wdegroot is working on 2K/XP/Vista/7/8, the CLI batch file language is quite powerful, enabling one to do all sorts of wonderful things.

 

[Ole Juul]

Well if wdegroot is working on 2K/XP/Vista/7/8, the CLI batch file language is quite powerful, enabling one to do all sorts of wonderful things.

Ya, I'm sure there's lots of power in those OSs that I have no idea about. I meant that my comments were moot in the case that he may not have been talking about 16 bit DOS. That's just my confusion about the listing being in the vintage software section and such. At first I thought he meant "unnest" in the sense of turning a nested file structure into a flat one, and then I thought it was deleting recursively and also being able to work on "things nothing else would do". Now I have no idea. Nevermind me.