Getting files from folders windows

[Guest]

Ok my problem is hard to explain, but ill try my best. So a certain program thought it was a good idea to some of my files and put them each into a folder, creating a lot of folders with only 1 file in them. Is there a way in windows to delete all these folders, so what i end up with is 1 folder, with all the fails in it. I can't go manually to each folder, and then take out the 1 file, and delete the folder. 

[Windows7ge]

I'm trying to think. There's a program called FreeFileSync it'd go into every single directory and see what files are in them but I'm not sure if it's capable of copying the files to a different directory without the folders. The program accepts CMD commands. There might be an argument to exclude folders.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Go into the parent directory for all the subfolders with files you want to move. Type *.* into the search bar and all the files will show up (and the folders at the top, most likely). Copy/cut all the files into a new directory, then you can delete all the subfolders. 

 

If all the files are of the same type, you can use this in either CMD or a .bat file:

 

xcopy C:\source_folder\*.ext D:\destination_folder /e

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Windows7ge said:

I'm trying to think. There's a program called FreeFileSync it'd go into every single directory and see what files are in them but I'm not sure if it's capable of copying the files to a different directory without the folders. The program accepts CMD commands. There might be an argument to exclude folders.

I actually figured it out. All you have to do is put the file type in windows search (in my case all the files are the same type).

So i just for example put ".mp4" in windows search and it lists all the files without the folders surrounding them, so i can just do that.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Go into the parent directory for all the subfolders with files you want to move. Type *.* into the search bar and all the files will show up (and the folders at the top, most likely). Copy/cut all the files into a new directory, then you can delete all the subfolders. 

 

If all the files are of the same type, you can use this in either CMD or a .bat file:

 

 

xcopy C:\source_folder\*.file D:\destination_folder /e

 

That is very similar to what i ended on doing. i typed ".mp4" and it listed all the files i needed, and it didnt show the folders at all.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Just now, Some Random Member said:

That is very similar to what i ended on doing. i typed ".mp4" and it listed all the files i needed, and it didnt show the folders at all.

Yeah, I think folders show up with * because it's a wildcard

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Yeah, I think folders show up with * because it's a wildcard

_{oh baby, im a wildcard}

[Windows7ge]

4 minutes ago, Some Random Member said:

I actually figured it out. All you have to do is put the file type in windows search (in my case all the files are the same type).

So i just for example put ".mp4" in windows search and it lists all the files without the folders surrounding them, so i can just do that.

If the file extensions are all the same that makes things a lot easier.

 

I also figured there was a CMD command that would achieve the same objective but I wasn't sure what argument would exclude the folders.