Windows 10: Copying files

I have a flash drive with many mp3's on it, however they are split up into various folders. How can I copy all mp3's to my fixed disc without the directories, ie just copy the mp3's without having to access each individual directory. TIA, Mike

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Copying files

Are you referring to Outlook that is part of Microsoft Office, or Outlook.com that is part of your Microsoft account?

All the data for Outlook.com exists online, in your Microsoft account. There's nothing to copy, just sign in to your Microsoft account on the Surface and it's right there for you.

For Microsoft Office, all your data (email, contacts, calendar, etc.) is contained in your 'personal store' which ends in .pst. Copy the .pst to the Surface and you're good to go.

 

Copying Files

That's the option I used to get. Now it just makes extra copies. I haven't added any extensions. I wonder if some recent update changed things.

 

Use the wild card option, an example:

copy C:\UserName\music\*.* D:\backup

3 Ways to Copy Files in Command Prompt - wikiHow

 

I think you may be better using this slightly modified command if you do not need to move the folders *.mp3 will only copy the MP3 files Whereas *.* will also copy the folders
Code: copy C:\UserName\music\*.mp3 D:\backup[/quote]

 

[/quote] This is not what OP is asking - OP has mp3 files in many directories and wants to put them all in one directory.

 

If this does not work you may need to use robocopy ...

file - ROBOCOPY - Copy folders content to a single folder - Stack Overflow

 

The way I would do it is open a command prompt and type (say usb was d drive)

d:

cd \

dir /s /b *.mp3 > mp3.bat

Then open mp3.bat in notepad and

1) replace all "d:" with "copy d:"

2) replace all ".mp3" with ".mp3 d:\mp3files\*.* (can change drive and path of destination - folder must exist)

3) save and run batch file

Just tested above (with pdf files in my case and it worked perfectly.

 

Easiest is just to copy the path in file explorer and paste it in.

 

There’s no switch to stop robocopy from preserving the directory structure. The way to do this in batch is to loop off the results of dir, which can be done directly like so.
Code: for /f "delims=" %%I in (' dir /a:-d /b /s "C:\source\*.mp3" ') do ( copy "%%~I" "C:\destination\%%~nxI" )[/quote]
But allow me to advocate for the PowerShell way:
Code: Get-ChildItem 'C:\source' -Include '*.mp3' -Recurse | Copy-Item -Destination 'C:\destination'[/quote]

 

[/quote] Just tried it - failed with all sorts of error messages about permissions when using C drive.

 

Try changing the paths and the -Include argument, preferably to something that exists.

 

Whole point of OP's post was he had multiple source directories.

 

Multiple source directories and recursive? Okay:

Code: Get-ChildItem 'C:\source1', 'C:\folder\source2', 'C:\some\folder\source3' -Include '*.mp3' -Recurse | Copy-Item -Destination 'C:\destination'[/quote]

 

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But point is OP would have to type them all in. See my batch file method earlier - takes 5 minutes or less.