Copying Music Files [Archive]

V

December 27th 08, 08:29 PM

Hello Everyone,

I did a search for all .mp3 files on a CD in hopes of copying them to
a folder on my PC. The problem I keep running into is after selecting
all the .mp3 files in the search window and copying them to another
folder it keeps recreating the folder structure the files came from.
Does anyone know how to get around the in Windows? I just want one
folder with only the files not the old folder structure.

Thanks,
V

Don Phillipson[_5_]

December 27th 08, 09:27 PM

"V" > wrote in message
...

> I did a search for all .mp3 files on a CD in hopes of copying them to
> a folder on my PC. The problem I keep running into is after selecting
> all the .mp3 files in the search window and copying them to another
> folder it keeps recreating the folder structure the files came from.
> Does anyone know how to get around the in Windows? I just want one
> folder with only the files not the old folder structure.

Your experience might happen if you are copying links rather than
files. Better repost (confirming you use Win98 and) noting
whether the same thing happens when you copy a single
MP3 file and when you highlight two or more to copy by
the same command.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

Don Phillipson[_5_]

December 27th 08, 09:27 PM

"V" > wrote in message
...

> I did a search for all .mp3 files on a CD in hopes of copying them to
> a folder on my PC. The problem I keep running into is after selecting
> all the .mp3 files in the search window and copying them to another
> folder it keeps recreating the folder structure the files came from.
> Does anyone know how to get around the in Windows? I just want one
> folder with only the files not the old folder structure.

Your experience might happen if you are copying links rather than
files. Better repost (confirming you use Win98 and) noting
whether the same thing happens when you copy a single
MP3 file and when you highlight two or more to copy by
the same command.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

Franc Zabkar

December 27th 08, 10:36 PM

On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:29:38 -0800 (PST), V > put
finger to keyboard and composed:

>Hello Everyone,
>
>I did a search for all .mp3 files on a CD in hopes of copying them to
>a folder on my PC. The problem I keep running into is after selecting
>all the .mp3 files in the search window and copying them to another
>folder it keeps recreating the folder structure the files came from.
>Does anyone know how to get around the in Windows? I just want one
>folder with only the files not the old folder structure.
>
>Thanks,
>V

In a DOS window type ...

dir C:\*.mp3 /s /b > c:\mp3_copy.bat

Then use a text editor to edit mp3_copy.bat.

Search and Replace ...

C:\

.... with ...

copy "C:\

Then Search and Replace ...

.mp3

.... with ...

.mp3" c:\your_preferred_directory

This will create a mp3_copy.bat file which you can then execute.

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

Franc Zabkar

December 27th 08, 10:36 PM

On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:29:38 -0800 (PST), V > put
finger to keyboard and composed:

>Hello Everyone,
>
>I did a search for all .mp3 files on a CD in hopes of copying them to
>a folder on my PC. The problem I keep running into is after selecting
>all the .mp3 files in the search window and copying them to another
>folder it keeps recreating the folder structure the files came from.
>Does anyone know how to get around the in Windows? I just want one
>folder with only the files not the old folder structure.
>
>Thanks,
>V

In a DOS window type ...

dir C:\*.mp3 /s /b > c:\mp3_copy.bat

Then use a text editor to edit mp3_copy.bat.

Search and Replace ...

C:\

.... with ...

copy "C:\

Then Search and Replace ...

.mp3

.... with ...

.mp3" c:\your_preferred_directory

This will create a mp3_copy.bat file which you can then execute.

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

MEB[_2_]

December 28th 08, 10:33 PM

"V" > wrote in message
...
| Hello Everyone,
|
| I did a search for all .mp3 files on a CD in hopes of copying them to
| a folder on my PC. The problem I keep running into is after selecting
| all the .mp3 files in the search window and copying them to another
| folder it keeps recreating the folder structure the files came from.
| Does anyone know how to get around the in Windows? I just want one
| folder with only the files not the old folder structure.
|
| Thanks,
| V

That's what it is supposed to do.
Windows Search/Find locates the entire *path* to the files PARTICULARLY
when using a CD. When you *highlight/Select All* the findings and then
"copy" or perhaps "Sent To" from MULTIPLE directories/folders, you tell it
to re-create the paths [multiple directories/folders and the contained
files] as well. Its as if you said to copy the CD, but only specific files
[which is what you did]. To avoid this, you must either strip the
folders/directories [via a batch or script], or copy from each
directory/folder individually using Explorer.

Modify Franc's DOS batch suggestion to the drive letter you need for your
CD [like E: or G:] and direct the output to your hard drive destination
folder.

--
MEB
http://peoplescounsel.org
a Peoples' counsel

Windows diagnostics/Security/Networking:
http://peoplescounsel.org/ref/windows-main.htm
_ _
~~

MEB[_2_]

December 28th 08, 10:33 PM

"V" > wrote in message
...
| Hello Everyone,
|
| I did a search for all .mp3 files on a CD in hopes of copying them to
| a folder on my PC. The problem I keep running into is after selecting
| all the .mp3 files in the search window and copying them to another
| folder it keeps recreating the folder structure the files came from.
| Does anyone know how to get around the in Windows? I just want one
| folder with only the files not the old folder structure.
|
| Thanks,
| V

That's what it is supposed to do.
Windows Search/Find locates the entire *path* to the files PARTICULARLY
when using a CD. When you *highlight/Select All* the findings and then
"copy" or perhaps "Sent To" from MULTIPLE directories/folders, you tell it
to re-create the paths [multiple directories/folders and the contained
files] as well. Its as if you said to copy the CD, but only specific files
[which is what you did]. To avoid this, you must either strip the
folders/directories [via a batch or script], or copy from each
directory/folder individually using Explorer.

Modify Franc's DOS batch suggestion to the drive letter you need for your
CD [like E: or G:] and direct the output to your hard drive destination
folder.

--
MEB
http://peoplescounsel.org
a Peoples' counsel

Windows diagnostics/Security/Networking:
http://peoplescounsel.org/ref/windows-main.htm
_ _
~~

J. P. Gilliver (John)

December 30th 08, 09:30 AM

In message >, Franc Zabkar
> writes:
>On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:29:38 -0800 (PST), V > put
>finger to keyboard and composed:
>
>>Hello Everyone,
>>
>>I did a search for all .mp3 files on a CD in hopes of copying them to
>>a folder on my PC. The problem I keep running into is after selecting
>>all the .mp3 files in the search window and copying them to another
>>folder it keeps recreating the folder structure the files came from.
>>Does anyone know how to get around the in Windows? I just want one
>>folder with only the files not the old folder structure.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>V
>
>In a DOS window type ...
>
> dir C:\*.mp3 /s /b > c:\mp3_copy.bat
>
>Then use a text editor to edit mp3_copy.bat.
>
>Search and Replace ...
>
> C:\
>
>... with ...
>
> copy "C:\
>
>Then Search and Replace ...
>
> .mp3
>
>... with ...
>
> .mp3" c:\your_preferred_directory
>
>This will create a mp3_copy.bat file which you can then execute.
>
>- Franc Zabkar

Excellent solution; I didn't know the "find" window had that property,
as described by the OP. of copying the structure.

Confronted with the same problem, I'd consider one of the alternatives
to Explorer; I have Xtree (but that would lose any long filenames), and
have come across but not played with "Explorer2" (the 2 is raised); if
thanatoid is around he'll tell you his favourite.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL(+++)IS-P--Ch+(p)Ar+T[?]H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously
outdated thoughts on PCs. **

Santa's elves are just a bunch of subordinate Clauses.
** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

J. P. Gilliver (John)

December 30th 08, 09:30 AM

In message >, Franc Zabkar
> writes:
>On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:29:38 -0800 (PST), V > put
>finger to keyboard and composed:
>
>>Hello Everyone,
>>
>>I did a search for all .mp3 files on a CD in hopes of copying them to
>>a folder on my PC. The problem I keep running into is after selecting
>>all the .mp3 files in the search window and copying them to another
>>folder it keeps recreating the folder structure the files came from.
>>Does anyone know how to get around the in Windows? I just want one
>>folder with only the files not the old folder structure.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>V
>
>In a DOS window type ...
>
> dir C:\*.mp3 /s /b > c:\mp3_copy.bat
>
>Then use a text editor to edit mp3_copy.bat.
>
>Search and Replace ...
>
> C:\
>
>... with ...
>
> copy "C:\
>
>Then Search and Replace ...
>
> .mp3
>
>... with ...
>
> .mp3" c:\your_preferred_directory
>
>This will create a mp3_copy.bat file which you can then execute.
>
>- Franc Zabkar

Excellent solution; I didn't know the "find" window had that property,
as described by the OP. of copying the structure.

Confronted with the same problem, I'd consider one of the alternatives
to Explorer; I have Xtree (but that would lose any long filenames), and
have come across but not played with "Explorer2" (the 2 is raised); if
thanatoid is around he'll tell you his favourite.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL(+++)IS-P--Ch+(p)Ar+T[?]H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously
outdated thoughts on PCs. **

Santa's elves are just a bunch of subordinate Clauses.
** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

PCR

December 31st 08, 01:05 AM

PCR

December 31st 08, 01:05 AM

MEB[_2_]

December 31st 08, 08:55 PM

"PCR" > wrote in message
...
| J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
| | In message >, Franc Zabkar
| | > writes:
| |>On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:29:38 -0800 (PST), V > put
| |>finger to keyboard and composed:
| |>
| |>>Hello Everyone,
| |>>
| |>>I did a search for all .mp3 files on a CD in hopes of copying them to
| |>>a folder on my PC. The problem I keep running into is after
| |>>selecting all the .mp3 files in the search window and copying them
| |>>to another folder it keeps recreating the folder structure the files
| |>>came from. Does anyone know how to get around the in Windows? I
| |>>just want one folder with only the files not the old folder
| |>>structure.
| |>>
| |>>Thanks,
| |>>V
| |>
| |>In a DOS window type ...
| |>
| |> dir C:\*.mp3 /s /b > c:\mp3_copy.bat
| |>
| |>Then use a text editor to edit mp3_copy.bat.
| |>
| |>Search and Replace ...
| |>
| |> C:\
| |>
| |>... with ...
| |>
| |> copy "C:\
| |>
| |>Then Search and Replace ...
| |>
| |> .mp3
| |>
| |>... with ...
| |>
| |> .mp3" c:\your_preferred_directory
| |>
| |>This will create a mp3_copy.bat file which you can then execute.
| |>
| |>- Franc Zabkar
| |
| | Excellent solution; I didn't know the "find" window had that property,
| | as described by the OP. of copying the structure.
|
| Uh-huh! I even put in a CD-R/W & copied a file off it-- only the file
| came! I suspect OP is using something other than Explorer-- maybe
| MSBackup, which might copy folder structures! Or -- as Phillipson wants
| to know -- is he using XP or Vista? Maybe they do that!

Uh, not a good comparison. The querier copied MULTIPLE files from MULTIPLE
directories/folders *at the same time*.
A single file is copied as a single file with no directory structure;
multiple folders and files are copied as folders WITH the included files.

EXAMPLES:

1. Try copying a directory/folder or multiple folders (and included files)
from the CD.... what do you get??? the folder and files IN that same
folder<>files configuration. That's what was happening with the querier's
usage, only a filter had been *pre-applied* {just WHERE the *.mp3 files
returned by Search/Find were located}. Highlighting/Selecting those files
transferred the COMPLETE LOCATION to the copy command and DUPLICATED that
data structure where directed.

2. You can't highlight individual files in Explorer IN *different
directories/folders*, e.g., when changing to the other folder/directory,
your previous highlighted files are lost [no focus]. You CAN copy multiple
"folders" *within* the *root folder/directory* though [e.g., subfolders of a
main folder]. And you can copy files and directories from ONE folder to
another [pane to pane], but once you delve into a sub folder or move to a
higher folder you lose focus from/in any other folders.

To get ONLY certain files {as the querier wanted} you must use some form of
external filter [Find/Search which defaults to Windows methods of folders
and files [location {and data when clicked or highlighted and
copied/moved/whatever}], or a DOS batch {using external filtering}, or a
script {over-riding defaults and/or assigning functions, variables, and
directing output}]. Or, of course, an application which is not bound by
Windows default methods [such as a third party Explorer replacement].

One additional comment: Seems I vaguely remember some registry hacks [or
was it on the Search/Find command line/box] which allowed additional
filters/functions to be used within Search/Find, but that was LONG ago.
Anyone remember the hacks?

--
MEB
http://peoplescounsel.org
a Peoples' counsel

Windows diagnostics/Security/Networking:
http://peoplescounsel.org/ref/windows-main.htm
_ _
~~

|
| | Confronted with the same problem, I'd consider one of the alternatives
| | to Explorer; I have Xtree (but that would lose any long filenames),
| | and have come across but not played with "Explorer2" (the 2 is
| | raised); if thanatoid is around he'll tell you his favourite.
| | --
| | J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985
| | MB++G.5AL(+++)IS-P--Ch+(p)Ar+T[?]H+Sh0!:`)DNAf **
| | http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously
| | outdated thoughts on PCs. **
| |
| | Santa's elves are just a bunch of subordinate Clauses.
| | ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
|
| --
| Thanks or Good Luck,
| There may be humor in this post, and,
| Naturally, you will not sue,
| Should things get worse after this,
| PCR
|
|
|

MEB[_2_]

December 31st 08, 08:55 PM

"PCR" > wrote in message
...
| J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
| | In message >, Franc Zabkar
| | > writes:
| |>On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:29:38 -0800 (PST), V > put
| |>finger to keyboard and composed:
| |>
| |>>Hello Everyone,
| |>>
| |>>I did a search for all .mp3 files on a CD in hopes of copying them to
| |>>a folder on my PC. The problem I keep running into is after
| |>>selecting all the .mp3 files in the search window and copying them
| |>>to another folder it keeps recreating the folder structure the files
| |>>came from. Does anyone know how to get around the in Windows? I
| |>>just want one folder with only the files not the old folder
| |>>structure.
| |>>
| |>>Thanks,
| |>>V
| |>
| |>In a DOS window type ...
| |>
| |> dir C:\*.mp3 /s /b > c:\mp3_copy.bat
| |>
| |>Then use a text editor to edit mp3_copy.bat.
| |>
| |>Search and Replace ...
| |>
| |> C:\
| |>
| |>... with ...
| |>
| |> copy "C:\
| |>
| |>Then Search and Replace ...
| |>
| |> .mp3
| |>
| |>... with ...
| |>
| |> .mp3" c:\your_preferred_directory
| |>
| |>This will create a mp3_copy.bat file which you can then execute.
| |>
| |>- Franc Zabkar
| |
| | Excellent solution; I didn't know the "find" window had that property,
| | as described by the OP. of copying the structure.
|
| Uh-huh! I even put in a CD-R/W & copied a file off it-- only the file
| came! I suspect OP is using something other than Explorer-- maybe
| MSBackup, which might copy folder structures! Or -- as Phillipson wants
| to know -- is he using XP or Vista? Maybe they do that!

Uh, not a good comparison. The querier copied MULTIPLE files from MULTIPLE
directories/folders *at the same time*.
A single file is copied as a single file with no directory structure;
multiple folders and files are copied as folders WITH the included files.

EXAMPLES:

1. Try copying a directory/folder or multiple folders (and included files)
from the CD.... what do you get??? the folder and files IN that same
folder<>files configuration. That's what was happening with the querier's
usage, only a filter had been *pre-applied* {just WHERE the *.mp3 files
returned by Search/Find were located}. Highlighting/Selecting those files
transferred the COMPLETE LOCATION to the copy command and DUPLICATED that
data structure where directed.

2. You can't highlight individual files in Explorer IN *different
directories/folders*, e.g., when changing to the other folder/directory,
your previous highlighted files are lost [no focus]. You CAN copy multiple
"folders" *within* the *root folder/directory* though [e.g., subfolders of a
main folder]. And you can copy files and directories from ONE folder to
another [pane to pane], but once you delve into a sub folder or move to a
higher folder you lose focus from/in any other folders.

To get ONLY certain files {as the querier wanted} you must use some form of
external filter [Find/Search which defaults to Windows methods of folders
and files [location {and data when clicked or highlighted and
copied/moved/whatever}], or a DOS batch {using external filtering}, or a
script {over-riding defaults and/or assigning functions, variables, and
directing output}]. Or, of course, an application which is not bound by
Windows default methods [such as a third party Explorer replacement].

One additional comment: Seems I vaguely remember some registry hacks [or
was it on the Search/Find command line/box] which allowed additional
filters/functions to be used within Search/Find, but that was LONG ago.
Anyone remember the hacks?

--
MEB
http://peoplescounsel.org
a Peoples' counsel

Windows diagnostics/Security/Networking:
http://peoplescounsel.org/ref/windows-main.htm
_ _
~~

|
| | Confronted with the same problem, I'd consider one of the alternatives
| | to Explorer; I have Xtree (but that would lose any long filenames),
| | and have come across but not played with "Explorer2" (the 2 is
| | raised); if thanatoid is around he'll tell you his favourite.
| | --
| | J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985
| | MB++G.5AL(+++)IS-P--Ch+(p)Ar+T[?]H+Sh0!:`)DNAf **
| | http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously
| | outdated thoughts on PCs. **
| |
| | Santa's elves are just a bunch of subordinate Clauses.
| | ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
|
| --
| Thanks or Good Luck,
| There may be humor in this post, and,
| Naturally, you will not sue,
| Should things get worse after this,
| PCR
|
|
|

PCR

January 3rd 09, 12:49 AM

MEB wrote:
| "PCR" > wrote in message
| ...
|| J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
|| | In message >, Franc
|| | Zabkar > writes:
|| |>On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:29:38 -0800 (PST), V >
|| |>put finger to keyboard and composed:
|| |>
|| |>>Hello Everyone,
|| |>>
|| |>>I did a search for all .mp3 files on a CD in hopes of copying
|| |>>them to a folder on my PC. The problem I keep running into is
|| |>>after selecting all the .mp3 files in the search window and
|| |>>copying them to another folder it keeps recreating the folder
|| |>>structure the files came from. Does anyone know how to get around
|| |>>the in Windows? I just want one folder with only the files not
|| |>>the old folder structure.
|| |>>
|| |>>Thanks,
|| |>>V
|| |>
|| |>In a DOS window type ...
|| |>
|| |> dir C:\*.mp3 /s /b > c:\mp3_copy.bat
|| |>
|| |>Then use a text editor to edit mp3_copy.bat.
|| |>
|| |>Search and Replace ...
|| |>
|| |> C:\
|| |>
|| |>... with ...
|| |>
|| |> copy "C:\
|| |>
|| |>Then Search and Replace ...
|| |>
|| |> .mp3
|| |>
|| |>... with ...
|| |>
|| |> .mp3" c:\your_preferred_directory
|| |>
|| |>This will create a mp3_copy.bat file which you can then execute.
|| |>
|| |>- Franc Zabkar
|| |
|| | Excellent solution; I didn't know the "find" window had that
|| | property, as described by the OP. of copying the structure.
||
|| Uh-huh! I even put in a CD-R/W & copied a file off it-- only the file
|| came! I suspect OP is using something other than Explorer-- maybe
|| MSBackup, which might copy folder structures! Or -- as Phillipson
|| wants to know -- is he using XP or Vista? Maybe they do that!
|
| Uh, not a good comparison. The querier copied MULTIPLE files from
| MULTIPLE directories/folders *at the same time*.
| A single file is copied as a single file with no directory structure;
| multiple folders and files are copied as folders WITH the included
| files.

Using Windows's "Find *.*" on a CD, I was able to copy multiple files
from different CD folders to C:\Windows\Temp. Just the files went
without the folder structure. (You know, you hold CTRL while selecting
the files from different folders. Then R-Clk one of them & select
"Copy".) When a folder is included as one of the selections-- yea, the
folder & its contents are copied, right. But the other single files
selected still come without their folder structure.

| EXAMPLES:
|
| 1. Try copying a directory/folder or multiple folders (and included
| files) from the CD.... what do you get??? the folder and files IN
| that same folder<>files configuration. That's what was happening with
| the querier's usage, only a filter had been *pre-applied* {just WHERE
| the *.mp3 files returned by Search/Find were located}.
| Highlighting/Selecting those files transferred the COMPLETE LOCATION
| to the copy command and DUPLICATED that data structure where directed.

For "*.mp3" to cause folders to show up in a FIND box, a folder must
have those characters in its name. THEN -- yea -- selecting it will copy
the folder & its contents. Still, any files found & selected jointly
(holding CTRL) will come without their own folder structure. That's how
it works for me! But I'm not using any irradiated XP/Vista machine!

| 2. You can't highlight individual files in Explorer IN *different
| directories/folders*, e.g., when changing to the other
| folder/directory, your previous highlighted files are lost [no
| focus]. You CAN copy multiple "folders" *within* the *root
| folder/directory* though [e.g., subfolders of a main folder]. And you
| can copy files and directories from ONE folder to another [pane to
| pane], but once you delve into a sub folder or move to a higher
| folder you lose focus from/in any other folders.

I'm willing to take your word for that. It sounds about right. But it
CAN be done as I said in a FIND box.

| To get ONLY certain files {as the querier wanted} you must use some
| form of external filter [Find/Search which defaults to Windows
| methods of folders and files [location {and data when clicked or
| highlighted and copied/moved/whatever}], or a DOS batch {using
| external filtering}, or a script {over-riding defaults and/or
| assigning functions, variables, and directing output}]. Or, of
| course, an application which is not bound by Windows default methods
| [such as a third party Explorer replacement].
|
| One additional comment: Seems I vaguely remember some registry hacks
| [or was it on the Search/Find command line/box] which allowed
| additional filters/functions to be used within Search/Find, but that
| was LONG ago. Anyone remember the hacks?

Not me.

| --
| MEB
| http://peoplescounsel.org
| a Peoples' counsel
|
| Windows diagnostics/Security/Networking:
| http://peoplescounsel.org/ref/windows-main.htm
| _ _
| ~~
|
||
|| | Confronted with the same problem, I'd consider one of the
|| | alternatives to Explorer; I have Xtree (but that would lose any
|| | long filenames), and have come across but not played with
|| | "Explorer2" (the 2 is raised); if thanatoid is around he'll tell
|| | you his favourite. --
|| | J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985
|| | MB++G.5AL(+++)IS-P--Ch+(p)Ar+T[?]H+Sh0!:`)DNAf **
|| | http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for
|| | ludicrously outdated thoughts on PCs. **
|| |
|| | Santa's elves are just a bunch of subordinate Clauses.
|| | ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
||
|| --
|| Thanks or Good Luck,
|| There may be humor in this post, and,
|| Naturally, you will not sue,
|| Should things get worse after this,
|| PCR
||

--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
PCR

PCR

January 3rd 09, 12:49 AM

MEB wrote:
| "PCR" > wrote in message
| ...
|| J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
|| | In message >, Franc
|| | Zabkar > writes:
|| |>On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:29:38 -0800 (PST), V >
|| |>put finger to keyboard and composed:
|| |>
|| |>>Hello Everyone,
|| |>>
|| |>>I did a search for all .mp3 files on a CD in hopes of copying
|| |>>them to a folder on my PC. The problem I keep running into is
|| |>>after selecting all the .mp3 files in the search window and
|| |>>copying them to another folder it keeps recreating the folder
|| |>>structure the files came from. Does anyone know how to get around
|| |>>the in Windows? I just want one folder with only the files not
|| |>>the old folder structure.
|| |>>
|| |>>Thanks,
|| |>>V
|| |>
|| |>In a DOS window type ...
|| |>
|| |> dir C:\*.mp3 /s /b > c:\mp3_copy.bat
|| |>
|| |>Then use a text editor to edit mp3_copy.bat.
|| |>
|| |>Search and Replace ...
|| |>
|| |> C:\
|| |>
|| |>... with ...
|| |>
|| |> copy "C:\
|| |>
|| |>Then Search and Replace ...
|| |>
|| |> .mp3
|| |>
|| |>... with ...
|| |>
|| |> .mp3" c:\your_preferred_directory
|| |>
|| |>This will create a mp3_copy.bat file which you can then execute.
|| |>
|| |>- Franc Zabkar
|| |
|| | Excellent solution; I didn't know the "find" window had that
|| | property, as described by the OP. of copying the structure.
||
|| Uh-huh! I even put in a CD-R/W & copied a file off it-- only the file
|| came! I suspect OP is using something other than Explorer-- maybe
|| MSBackup, which might copy folder structures! Or -- as Phillipson
|| wants to know -- is he using XP or Vista? Maybe they do that!
|
| Uh, not a good comparison. The querier copied MULTIPLE files from
| MULTIPLE directories/folders *at the same time*.
| A single file is copied as a single file with no directory structure;
| multiple folders and files are copied as folders WITH the included
| files.

Using Windows's "Find *.*" on a CD, I was able to copy multiple files
from different CD folders to C:\Windows\Temp. Just the files went
without the folder structure. (You know, you hold CTRL while selecting
the files from different folders. Then R-Clk one of them & select
"Copy".) When a folder is included as one of the selections-- yea, the
folder & its contents are copied, right. But the other single files
selected still come without their folder structure.

| EXAMPLES:
|
| 1. Try copying a directory/folder or multiple folders (and included
| files) from the CD.... what do you get??? the folder and files IN
| that same folder<>files configuration. That's what was happening with
| the querier's usage, only a filter had been *pre-applied* {just WHERE
| the *.mp3 files returned by Search/Find were located}.
| Highlighting/Selecting those files transferred the COMPLETE LOCATION
| to the copy command and DUPLICATED that data structure where directed.

For "*.mp3" to cause folders to show up in a FIND box, a folder must
have those characters in its name. THEN -- yea -- selecting it will copy
the folder & its contents. Still, any files found & selected jointly
(holding CTRL) will come without their own folder structure. That's how
it works for me! But I'm not using any irradiated XP/Vista machine!

| 2. You can't highlight individual files in Explorer IN *different
| directories/folders*, e.g., when changing to the other
| folder/directory, your previous highlighted files are lost [no
| focus]. You CAN copy multiple "folders" *within* the *root
| folder/directory* though [e.g., subfolders of a main folder]. And you
| can copy files and directories from ONE folder to another [pane to
| pane], but once you delve into a sub folder or move to a higher
| folder you lose focus from/in any other folders.

I'm willing to take your word for that. It sounds about right. But it
CAN be done as I said in a FIND box.

| To get ONLY certain files {as the querier wanted} you must use some
| form of external filter [Find/Search which defaults to Windows
| methods of folders and files [location {and data when clicked or
| highlighted and copied/moved/whatever}], or a DOS batch {using
| external filtering}, or a script {over-riding defaults and/or
| assigning functions, variables, and directing output}]. Or, of
| course, an application which is not bound by Windows default methods
| [such as a third party Explorer replacement].
|
| One additional comment: Seems I vaguely remember some registry hacks
| [or was it on the Search/Find command line/box] which allowed
| additional filters/functions to be used within Search/Find, but that
| was LONG ago. Anyone remember the hacks?

Not me.

| --
| MEB
| http://peoplescounsel.org
| a Peoples' counsel
|
| Windows diagnostics/Security/Networking:
| http://peoplescounsel.org/ref/windows-main.htm
| _ _
| ~~
|
||
|| | Confronted with the same problem, I'd consider one of the
|| | alternatives to Explorer; I have Xtree (but that would lose any
|| | long filenames), and have come across but not played with
|| | "Explorer2" (the 2 is raised); if thanatoid is around he'll tell
|| | you his favourite. --
|| | J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985
|| | MB++G.5AL(+++)IS-P--Ch+(p)Ar+T[?]H+Sh0!:`)DNAf **
|| | http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for
|| | ludicrously outdated thoughts on PCs. **
|| |
|| | Santa's elves are just a bunch of subordinate Clauses.
|| | ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
||
|| --
|| Thanks or Good Luck,
|| There may be humor in this post, and,
|| Naturally, you will not sue,
|| Should things get worse after this,
|| PCR
||

--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
PCR

MEB[_2_]

January 3rd 09, 08:54 AM

"PCR" > wrote in message
...
| MEB wrote:
| | "PCR" > wrote in message
| | ...
| || J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
| || | In message >, Franc
| || | Zabkar > writes:
| || |>On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:29:38 -0800 (PST), V >
| || |>put finger to keyboard and composed:
| || |>
| || |>>Hello Everyone,
| || |>>
| || |>>I did a search for all .mp3 files on a CD in hopes of copying
| || |>>them to a folder on my PC. The problem I keep running into is
| || |>>after selecting all the .mp3 files in the search window and
| || |>>copying them to another folder it keeps recreating the folder
| || |>>structure the files came from. Does anyone know how to get around
| || |>>the in Windows? I just want one folder with only the files not
| || |>>the old folder structure.
| || |>>
| || |>>Thanks,
| || |>>V
cut
| || |> .mp3" c:\your_preferred_directory
| || |>
| || |>This will create a mp3_copy.bat file which you can then execute.
| || |>
| || |>- Franc Zabkar
| || |
| || | Excellent solution; I didn't know the "find" window had that
| || | property, as described by the OP. of copying the structure.
| ||
| || Uh-huh! I even put in a CD-R/W & copied a file off it-- only the file
| || came! I suspect OP is using something other than Explorer-- maybe
| || MSBackup, which might copy folder structures! Or -- as Phillipson
| || wants to know -- is he using XP or Vista? Maybe they do that!
| |
| | Uh, not a good comparison. The querier copied MULTIPLE files from
| | MULTIPLE directories/folders *at the same time*.
| | A single file is copied as a single file with no directory structure;
| | multiple folders and files are copied as folders WITH the included
| | files.
|
| Using Windows's "Find *.*" on a CD, I was able to copy multiple files
| from different CD folders to C:\Windows\Temp. Just the files went
| without the folder structure. (You know, you hold CTRL while selecting
| the files from different folders. Then R-Clk one of them & select
| "Copy".) When a folder is included as one of the selections-- yea, the
| folder & its contents are copied, right. But the other single files
| selected still come without their folder structure.

Yep.

|
| | EXAMPLES:
| |
| | 1. Try copying a directory/folder or multiple folders (and included
| | files) from the CD.... what do you get??? the folder and files IN
| | that same folder<>files configuration. That's what was happening with
| | the querier's usage, only a filter had been *pre-applied* {just WHERE
| | the *.mp3 files returned by Search/Find were located}.
| | Highlighting/Selecting those files transferred the COMPLETE LOCATION
| | to the copy command and DUPLICATED that data structure where directed.
|
| For "*.mp3" to cause folders to show up in a FIND box, a folder must
| have those characters in its name. THEN -- yea -- selecting it will copy
| the folder & its contents. Still, any files found & selected jointly
| (holding CTRL) will come without their own folder structure. That's how
| it works for me! But I'm not using any irradiated XP/Vista machine!

Yep.
Nor am I at the moment.

|
| | 2. You can't highlight individual files in Explorer IN *different
| | directories/folders*, e.g., when changing to the other
| | folder/directory, your previous highlighted files are lost [no
| | focus]. You CAN copy multiple "folders" *within* the *root
| | folder/directory* though [e.g., subfolders of a main folder]. And you
| | can copy files and directories from ONE folder to another [pane to
| | pane], but once you delve into a sub folder or move to a higher
| | folder you lose focus from/in any other folders.
|
| I'm willing to take your word for that. It sounds about right. But it
| CAN be done as I said in a FIND box.

Yep. So what do you think caused the issue the querier encountered? Or was
too little information provided and subsequently extracted....
As you've just demonstrated it should have worked, yet didn't... so if 9X/ME
does work in that fashion [and we're in this 98 newsgroup, sorry for the
slight misdirection in the previous comments, they apply to a different OS],
which OSs don't perform in the same fashion....

|
| | To get ONLY certain files {as the querier wanted} you must use some
| | form of external filter [Find/Search which defaults to Windows
| | methods of folders and files [location {and data when clicked or
| | highlighted and copied/moved/whatever}], or a DOS batch {using
| | external filtering}, or a script {over-riding defaults and/or
| | assigning functions, variables, and directing output}]. Or, of
| | course, an application which is not bound by Windows default methods
| | [such as a third party Explorer replacement].
| |
| | One additional comment: Seems I vaguely remember some registry hacks
| | [or was it on the Search/Find command line/box] which allowed
| | additional filters/functions to be used within Search/Find, but that
| | was LONG ago. Anyone remember the hacks?
|
| Not me.
|
| | --
| | MEB
| | ~~
| |
| ||
| || | Confronted with the same problem, I'd consider one of the
| || | alternatives to Explorer; I have Xtree (but that would lose any
| || | long filenames), and have come across but not played with
| || | "Explorer2" (the 2 is raised); if thanatoid is around he'll tell
| || | you his favourite. --
| || | J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985
| || |
| ||
| || PCR
|
| --
| PCR
--
MEB
http://peoplescounsel.org
a Peoples' counsel

Windows diagnostics/Security/Networking:
http://peoplescounsel.org/ref/windows-main.htm
_ _
~~

MEB[_2_]

January 3rd 09, 08:54 AM

"PCR" > wrote in message
...
| MEB wrote:
| | "PCR" > wrote in message
| | ...
| || J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
| || | In message >, Franc
| || | Zabkar > writes:
| || |>On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:29:38 -0800 (PST), V >
| || |>put finger to keyboard and composed:
| || |>
| || |>>Hello Everyone,
| || |>>
| || |>>I did a search for all .mp3 files on a CD in hopes of copying
| || |>>them to a folder on my PC. The problem I keep running into is
| || |>>after selecting all the .mp3 files in the search window and
| || |>>copying them to another folder it keeps recreating the folder
| || |>>structure the files came from. Does anyone know how to get around
| || |>>the in Windows? I just want one folder with only the files not
| || |>>the old folder structure.
| || |>>
| || |>>Thanks,
| || |>>V
cut
| || |> .mp3" c:\your_preferred_directory
| || |>
| || |>This will create a mp3_copy.bat file which you can then execute.
| || |>
| || |>- Franc Zabkar
| || |
| || | Excellent solution; I didn't know the "find" window had that
| || | property, as described by the OP. of copying the structure.
| ||
| || Uh-huh! I even put in a CD-R/W & copied a file off it-- only the file
| || came! I suspect OP is using something other than Explorer-- maybe
| || MSBackup, which might copy folder structures! Or -- as Phillipson
| || wants to know -- is he using XP or Vista? Maybe they do that!
| |
| | Uh, not a good comparison. The querier copied MULTIPLE files from
| | MULTIPLE directories/folders *at the same time*.
| | A single file is copied as a single file with no directory structure;
| | multiple folders and files are copied as folders WITH the included
| | files.
|
| Using Windows's "Find *.*" on a CD, I was able to copy multiple files
| from different CD folders to C:\Windows\Temp. Just the files went
| without the folder structure. (You know, you hold CTRL while selecting
| the files from different folders. Then R-Clk one of them & select
| "Copy".) When a folder is included as one of the selections-- yea, the
| folder & its contents are copied, right. But the other single files
| selected still come without their folder structure.

Yep.

|
| | EXAMPLES:
| |
| | 1. Try copying a directory/folder or multiple folders (and included
| | files) from the CD.... what do you get??? the folder and files IN
| | that same folder<>files configuration. That's what was happening with
| | the querier's usage, only a filter had been *pre-applied* {just WHERE
| | the *.mp3 files returned by Search/Find were located}.
| | Highlighting/Selecting those files transferred the COMPLETE LOCATION
| | to the copy command and DUPLICATED that data structure where directed.
|
| For "*.mp3" to cause folders to show up in a FIND box, a folder must
| have those characters in its name. THEN -- yea -- selecting it will copy
| the folder & its contents. Still, any files found & selected jointly
| (holding CTRL) will come without their own folder structure. That's how
| it works for me! But I'm not using any irradiated XP/Vista machine!

Yep.
Nor am I at the moment.

|
| | 2. You can't highlight individual files in Explorer IN *different
| | directories/folders*, e.g., when changing to the other
| | folder/directory, your previous highlighted files are lost [no
| | focus]. You CAN copy multiple "folders" *within* the *root
| | folder/directory* though [e.g., subfolders of a main folder]. And you
| | can copy files and directories from ONE folder to another [pane to
| | pane], but once you delve into a sub folder or move to a higher
| | folder you lose focus from/in any other folders.
|
| I'm willing to take your word for that. It sounds about right. But it
| CAN be done as I said in a FIND box.

Yep. So what do you think caused the issue the querier encountered? Or was
too little information provided and subsequently extracted....
As you've just demonstrated it should have worked, yet didn't... so if 9X/ME
does work in that fashion [and we're in this 98 newsgroup, sorry for the
slight misdirection in the previous comments, they apply to a different OS],
which OSs don't perform in the same fashion....

|
| | To get ONLY certain files {as the querier wanted} you must use some
| | form of external filter [Find/Search which defaults to Windows
| | methods of folders and files [location {and data when clicked or
| | highlighted and copied/moved/whatever}], or a DOS batch {using
| | external filtering}, or a script {over-riding defaults and/or
| | assigning functions, variables, and directing output}]. Or, of
| | course, an application which is not bound by Windows default methods
| | [such as a third party Explorer replacement].
| |
| | One additional comment: Seems I vaguely remember some registry hacks
| | [or was it on the Search/Find command line/box] which allowed
| | additional filters/functions to be used within Search/Find, but that
| | was LONG ago. Anyone remember the hacks?
|
| Not me.
|
| | --
| | MEB
| | ~~
| |
| ||
| || | Confronted with the same problem, I'd consider one of the
| || | alternatives to Explorer; I have Xtree (but that would lose any
| || | long filenames), and have come across but not played with
| || | "Explorer2" (the 2 is raised); if thanatoid is around he'll tell
| || | you his favourite. --
| || | J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985
| || |
| ||
| || PCR
|
| --
| PCR
--
MEB
http://peoplescounsel.org
a Peoples' counsel

Windows diagnostics/Security/Networking:
http://peoplescounsel.org/ref/windows-main.htm
_ _
~~

PCR

January 4th 09, 02:04 AM

MEB wrote:
| "PCR" > wrote in message
| ...
|| MEB wrote:
|| | "PCR" > wrote in message
|| | ...
|| || J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
|| || | In message >, Franc
|| || | Zabkar > writes:
|| || |>On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:29:38 -0800 (PST), V
|| || > put finger to keyboard and composed:
|| || |>
|| || |>>Hello Everyone,
|| || |>>
|| || |>>I did a search for all .mp3 files on a CD in hopes of copying
|| || |>>them to a folder on my PC. The problem I keep running into is
|| || |>>after selecting all the .mp3 files in the search window and
|| || |>>copying them to another folder it keeps recreating the folder
|| || |>>structure the files came from. Does anyone know how to get
|| || |>>around the in Windows? I just want one folder with only the
|| || |>>files not the old folder structure.
|| || |>>
|| || |>>Thanks,
|| || |>>V
| cut
|| || |> .mp3" c:\your_preferred_directory
|| || |>
|| || |>This will create a mp3_copy.bat file which you can then execute.
|| || |>
|| || |>- Franc Zabkar
|| || |
|| || | Excellent solution; I didn't know the "find" window had that
|| || | property, as described by the OP. of copying the structure.
|| ||
|| || Uh-huh! I even put in a CD-R/W & copied a file off it-- only the
|| || file came! I suspect OP is using something other than Explorer--
|| || maybe MSBackup, which might copy folder structures! Or -- as
|| || Phillipson wants to know -- is he using XP or Vista? Maybe they
|| || do that!
|| |
|| | Uh, not a good comparison. The querier copied MULTIPLE files from
|| | MULTIPLE directories/folders *at the same time*.
|| | A single file is copied as a single file with no directory
|| | structure; multiple folders and files are copied as folders WITH
|| | the included files.
||
|| Using Windows's "Find *.*" on a CD, I was able to copy multiple files
|| from different CD folders to C:\Windows\Temp. Just the files went
|| without the folder structure. (You know, you hold CTRL while
|| selecting the files from different folders. Then R-Clk one of them &
|| select "Copy".) When a folder is included as one of the selections--
|| yea, the folder & its contents are copied, right. But the other
|| single files selected still come without their folder structure.
|
| Yep.

OK.

||
|| | EXAMPLES:
|| |
|| | 1. Try copying a directory/folder or multiple folders (and included
|| | files) from the CD.... what do you get??? the folder and files IN
|| | that same folder<>files configuration. That's what was happening
|| | with the querier's usage, only a filter had been *pre-applied*
|| | {just WHERE the *.mp3 files returned by Search/Find were located}.
|| | Highlighting/Selecting those files transferred the COMPLETE
|| | LOCATION to the copy command and DUPLICATED that data structure
|| | where directed.
||
|| For "*.mp3" to cause folders to show up in a FIND box, a folder must
|| have those characters in its name. THEN -- yea -- selecting it will
|| copy the folder & its contents. Still, any files found & selected
|| jointly (holding CTRL) will come without their own folder structure.
|| That's how it works for me! But I'm not using any irradiated
|| XP/Vista machine!
|
| Yep.
| Nor am I at the moment.

But was he?

||
|| | 2. You can't highlight individual files in Explorer IN *different
|| | directories/folders*, e.g., when changing to the other
|| | folder/directory, your previous highlighted files are lost [no
|| | focus]. You CAN copy multiple "folders" *within* the *root
|| | folder/directory* though [e.g., subfolders of a main folder]. And
|| | you can copy files and directories from ONE folder to another
|| | [pane to pane], but once you delve into a sub folder or move to a
|| | higher folder you lose focus from/in any other folders.
||
|| I'm willing to take your word for that. It sounds about right. But it
|| CAN be done as I said in a FIND box.
|
| Yep. So what do you think caused the issue the querier encountered?
| Or was too little information provided and subsequently extracted....
| As you've just demonstrated it should have worked, yet didn't... so
| if 9X/ME does work in that fashion [and we're in this 98 newsgroup,
| sorry for the slight misdirection in the previous comments, they
| apply to a different OS], which OSs don't perform in the same
| fashion....

It was too little information. I know MSBackup can be set to take folder
structures. Maybe he was using that or something else that does it. I
wouldn't be suprized if XP/Vista do it. Maybe he did have "mp3" in a
folder name.

||
|| | To get ONLY certain files {as the querier wanted} you must use
|| | some form of external filter [Find/Search which defaults to Windows
|| | methods of folders and files [location {and data when clicked or
|| | highlighted and copied/moved/whatever}], or a DOS batch {using
|| | external filtering}, or a script {over-riding defaults and/or
|| | assigning functions, variables, and directing output}]. Or, of
|| | course, an application which is not bound by Windows default
|| | methods [such as a third party Explorer replacement].
|| |
|| | One additional comment: Seems I vaguely remember some registry
|| | hacks [or was it on the Search/Find command line/box] which allowed
|| | additional filters/functions to be used within Search/Find, but
|| | that was LONG ago. Anyone remember the hacks?
||
|| Not me.
||
|| | --
|| | MEB
|| | ~~
|| |
|| ||
|| || | Confronted with the same problem, I'd consider one of the
|| || | alternatives to Explorer; I have Xtree (but that would lose any
|| || | long filenames), and have come across but not played with
|| || | "Explorer2" (the 2 is raised); if thanatoid is around he'll tell
|| || | you his favourite. --
|| || | J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985
|| || |
|| ||
|| || PCR
||
|| --
|| PCR
| --
| MEB
| http://peoplescounsel.org
| a Peoples' counsel
|
| Windows diagnostics/Security/Networking:
| http://peoplescounsel.org/ref/windows-main.htm
| _ _
| ~~

--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
PCR

PCR

January 4th 09, 02:04 AM

MEB wrote:
| "PCR" > wrote in message
| ...
|| MEB wrote:
|| | "PCR" > wrote in message
|| | ...
|| || J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
|| || | In message >, Franc
|| || | Zabkar > writes:
|| || |>On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:29:38 -0800 (PST), V
|| || > put finger to keyboard and composed:
|| || |>
|| || |>>Hello Everyone,
|| || |>>
|| || |>>I did a search for all .mp3 files on a CD in hopes of copying
|| || |>>them to a folder on my PC. The problem I keep running into is
|| || |>>after selecting all the .mp3 files in the search window and
|| || |>>copying them to another folder it keeps recreating the folder
|| || |>>structure the files came from. Does anyone know how to get
|| || |>>around the in Windows? I just want one folder with only the
|| || |>>files not the old folder structure.
|| || |>>
|| || |>>Thanks,
|| || |>>V
| cut
|| || |> .mp3" c:\your_preferred_directory
|| || |>
|| || |>This will create a mp3_copy.bat file which you can then execute.
|| || |>
|| || |>- Franc Zabkar
|| || |
|| || | Excellent solution; I didn't know the "find" window had that
|| || | property, as described by the OP. of copying the structure.
|| ||
|| || Uh-huh! I even put in a CD-R/W & copied a file off it-- only the
|| || file came! I suspect OP is using something other than Explorer--
|| || maybe MSBackup, which might copy folder structures! Or -- as
|| || Phillipson wants to know -- is he using XP or Vista? Maybe they
|| || do that!
|| |
|| | Uh, not a good comparison. The querier copied MULTIPLE files from
|| | MULTIPLE directories/folders *at the same time*.
|| | A single file is copied as a single file with no directory
|| | structure; multiple folders and files are copied as folders WITH
|| | the included files.
||
|| Using Windows's "Find *.*" on a CD, I was able to copy multiple files
|| from different CD folders to C:\Windows\Temp. Just the files went
|| without the folder structure. (You know, you hold CTRL while
|| selecting the files from different folders. Then R-Clk one of them &
|| select "Copy".) When a folder is included as one of the selections--
|| yea, the folder & its contents are copied, right. But the other
|| single files selected still come without their folder structure.
|
| Yep.

OK.

||
|| | EXAMPLES:
|| |
|| | 1. Try copying a directory/folder or multiple folders (and included
|| | files) from the CD.... what do you get??? the folder and files IN
|| | that same folder<>files configuration. That's what was happening
|| | with the querier's usage, only a filter had been *pre-applied*
|| | {just WHERE the *.mp3 files returned by Search/Find were located}.
|| | Highlighting/Selecting those files transferred the COMPLETE
|| | LOCATION to the copy command and DUPLICATED that data structure
|| | where directed.
||
|| For "*.mp3" to cause folders to show up in a FIND box, a folder must
|| have those characters in its name. THEN -- yea -- selecting it will
|| copy the folder & its contents. Still, any files found & selected
|| jointly (holding CTRL) will come without their own folder structure.
|| That's how it works for me! But I'm not using any irradiated
|| XP/Vista machine!
|
| Yep.
| Nor am I at the moment.

But was he?

||
|| | 2. You can't highlight individual files in Explorer IN *different
|| | directories/folders*, e.g., when changing to the other
|| | folder/directory, your previous highlighted files are lost [no
|| | focus]. You CAN copy multiple "folders" *within* the *root
|| | folder/directory* though [e.g., subfolders of a main folder]. And
|| | you can copy files and directories from ONE folder to another
|| | [pane to pane], but once you delve into a sub folder or move to a
|| | higher folder you lose focus from/in any other folders.
||
|| I'm willing to take your word for that. It sounds about right. But it
|| CAN be done as I said in a FIND box.
|
| Yep. So what do you think caused the issue the querier encountered?
| Or was too little information provided and subsequently extracted....
| As you've just demonstrated it should have worked, yet didn't... so
| if 9X/ME does work in that fashion [and we're in this 98 newsgroup,
| sorry for the slight misdirection in the previous comments, they
| apply to a different OS], which OSs don't perform in the same
| fashion....

It was too little information. I know MSBackup can be set to take folder
structures. Maybe he was using that or something else that does it. I
wouldn't be suprized if XP/Vista do it. Maybe he did have "mp3" in a
folder name.

||
|| | To get ONLY certain files {as the querier wanted} you must use
|| | some form of external filter [Find/Search which defaults to Windows
|| | methods of folders and files [location {and data when clicked or
|| | highlighted and copied/moved/whatever}], or a DOS batch {using
|| | external filtering}, or a script {over-riding defaults and/or
|| | assigning functions, variables, and directing output}]. Or, of
|| | course, an application which is not bound by Windows default
|| | methods [such as a third party Explorer replacement].
|| |
|| | One additional comment: Seems I vaguely remember some registry
|| | hacks [or was it on the Search/Find command line/box] which allowed
|| | additional filters/functions to be used within Search/Find, but
|| | that was LONG ago. Anyone remember the hacks?
||
|| Not me.
||
|| | --
|| | MEB
|| | ~~
|| |
|| ||
|| || | Confronted with the same problem, I'd consider one of the
|| || | alternatives to Explorer; I have Xtree (but that would lose any
|| || | long filenames), and have come across but not played with
|| || | "Explorer2" (the 2 is raised); if thanatoid is around he'll tell
|| || | you his favourite. --
|| || | J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985
|| || |
|| ||
|| || PCR
||
|| --
|| PCR
| --
| MEB
| http://peoplescounsel.org
| a Peoples' counsel
|
| Windows diagnostics/Security/Networking:
| http://peoplescounsel.org/ref/windows-main.htm
| _ _
| ~~

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There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
PCR