Auto File Organiser
Washer
Hi Nick,
I’ve just spent a couple of hours cleaning up customers duplicate files then reorganising the files into their corresponding folders docs, music etc. Reorganizing files is one of those jobs loathed by clients and quite often they will ask me to do it for them.
Foolish Tech
Washer
Nick,
Would you consider expanding PhotoArchiver filtering capabilities to other file types and performing the following functions?
1. Select a target folder then filter its contents including its subfolders by file type .doc .mp3
2. The filtered results are categorised and placed into subfolders named .doc .mp3 .jpg etc
3. The subfolders can then be selected and then exported into their windows default location My Documents, My Music
4. Finally highlight/List any duplicate files within these default locations and delete to the recycle bin.
Cheers
Doug
Washer
Found my solution to reorganizing customer’s files and folders.
DropIt is a free, open-source utility that processes collections of files according to rules you define. For example, you can set it loose at your Downloads folder, and telling it to sort all of the JPG and PNG files into an images subfolder, but only if they're larger than 30KB (so you don't have to save small images). It would then take all the ZIP files and put them in another folder, and delete all of the TMP files. In other words, you just configure a bunch of rules, and DropIt does the rest.
You can use DropIt by dragging and dropping files onto its desktop overlay (hence the name), or have DropIt sit in the background and constantly monitor one or more folders for any changes. Once you have a solid set of rules, that latter option offers a distraction-free way to get rid of file clutter, but only after you make some tweaks to the way DropIt works. By default, DropIt shows a progress bar whenever it's processing files, and also prompts you when it stumbles upon a file it doesn't know what to do with.
http://dropit.sourceforge.net/