Windows 10: Move all files inside folders to parent directory

Hello,

First of all, I would like to apologize if this topic is not in the correct forum.

My problem is the following:
I have a folder (let's call it BASKET), inside that folder I have many other folders (for the sake of the example, I will name for example 3 folders - banana, apple, and cucumber). These 3 folders (in my case its many many folders) have files in them. I would like to move those files (from banana, cucumber, and apple) to the BASKET folder. The folders are so many, it's tedious to go in each one and move the files back one by one.

Can anyone help me out on how to achieve that in a geeky way? Some sort of batch file? A windows trick that I have not heard of?

Regards,


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File explorer keeps defaulting to parent folder on Windows 10.

Original Title: File explorer keeps defaulting to parent folder

I am working with File Explorer in Windows 10 on a Dell computer. I have several files on an external drive that I want to post to multiple files on my hard drive. I have a temporary directory where I move the files to my hard drive, so that I can move
them to the other folders, elsewhere on the hard drive. The temporary directory has several folders which have multiple files in them. Each time I go into one of the folders in the temporary directory, I can move the files to their new location, but when
the files move, Explorer automatically defaults back to the temporary directory instead of staying in the folder it was in before the file was moved. I have been doing this the same way since Vista, and it has never done this before. Anyone have an idea
how to make it stop defaulting back to the main directory?

Thank you for your help. I am ready to pull my hair out. What used to take me half an hour with Windows 7 now takes a couple of hours because I have to go back and repeat all the steps each time I move a file. <><

 

losing my downloaded folder files again

yes exactly this is what happen this time

last time i lost all contents of downloads folder and all contents of desktop

this time and last time this occurred after I saved file to this directory from photoshop cc (directory last time is desktop and downloads) (directory this time folder inside downloads)

in other words, every folder i open in by photoshop and i use one of its contents or i save item inside it as PDF format i lose its content)

 

What you need is a file manager that can 'search' recursively from the context menu.

I work with, 99% of the time, XnView (Classic). I have done what you want to do, by right-clicking the parent folder in the navigation panel, and selecting 'show all files' recursive search. The file manager/browser will then allow you to 'browse', and list the entire contents of the parent folder and all of its sub- and sub-subfolders. Ctrl-A selects all and you just slide/drag to the parent folder.

The problem you may run into is duplicate filenames that will end up in the same parent folder. Map out a strategy beforehand.

 

You just gave me an idea and it worked. I went to the BASKET folder and searched for the extension of the files (in my case its .mp3) then cut and pasted all the files where I wanted. Obviously this won't work for multiple extension (maybe you can search for .* ?). But thanks anyway since you gave me that idea.

Peace.

 

If you don't have nested folders something like this would do it - otherwise you would have to keep repeating it.

Assuming your folder "Basket" is on your desktop...

Code: cd %userprofile%\Desktop\Basket for /d %i in (*) do move "%i\*" %userprofile%\Desktop\Basket[/quote] What it is doing is changing the working directory to basket then for each directory inside it (that is the /d flag) move everything it contains to the path defined basket again).

It will prompt you if you there are duplicate names.