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Save Time Organising Files with Dir Utils' Right-Click Tools
Posted by Kevin Purdy at 11:22 PM on April 10, 2008
Windows only: Dir Utils, a free right-click extension for Windows systems, is a great utility for anyone who regularly finds themselves organising downloads and media files. The utility adds five new options to Windows' right-click menu, including "Unify," which grabs files from a folder's sub-directories and moves them all up to the main folder; "Alphabetize," which puts all files in sub-folders into A-Z folders based on file name; and "Extensionize," which does the same based on file extensions. In other words, Dir Utils saves you the time you would've spent re-organising MP3s, gathering a seasons' worth of episode videos, and keeping a hefty downloads folder organized. Dir Utils is a free download for Windows systems only.
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SDreamer
Posted 1:07 AM 11/4/08
Can't you achieve this via "Right Click >Sort By>etc etc." The unify option does look useful.
SDreamer
Woodsyx
Posted 1:36 AM 11/4/08
Wow that unify option is amazing.
Woodsyx
Deadman36g
Posted 2:35 AM 11/4/08
Does this work with Vista?
Deadman36g
junkmail
Posted 3:28 AM 11/4/08
@dwhicks01: Try doing that with a couple of hundred directories. Gets a little old.
BTW, DUGG.
(Sorry if this dupes, comment got eaten)
junkmail
iceman7
Posted 3:28 AM 11/4/08
Excellent. Love that Unify option.
This along with Piky Basket [www.conceptworld.com] has made organizing all my clutter so much easier.
iceman7
junkmail
Posted 3:23 AM 11/4/08
@dwhicks01: Try doing that with a couple of hundred directories. Gets a little old.
By the way, DUGG.
junkmail
dwhicks01
Posted 3:21 AM 11/4/08
I mean (ext) is the type of file** like *.avi searches for all avi's.
dwhicks01
dwhicks01
Posted 3:20 AM 11/4/08
Unify is handy but you could essentially do the same thing before. Simply navigate to the folder that has other "folders" and do a search of that top folder only, searching for *.(ext), where ext is the type of folder. Make sure the search includes subfolders, then cut the files and move them.
Granted this is faster, but not the only way to do it.
dwhicks01
Kevin Purdy
Posted 3:16 AM 11/4/08
@Deadman36g: Sure does.
Kevin Purdy
junkmail
Posted 3:15 AM 11/4/08
hOLY cARP! (damn capslock), I've seriously been searching for two weeks for something like this! I've been spending about 4 hours a day trying to organize a ridiculously huge stock photo collection, and this thing would have saved DAYS of mind-numbing tedium. LH, you now own my firstborn, (as soon as I clear it with her). THANKS!
junkmail
Korosive
Posted 12:18 AM 11/4/08
Looks pretty useful. It's too bad Operating Systems still don't include tools like this.
Korosive
dwhicks01
Posted 10:14 PM 11/4/08
@junkmail: Yeah thats what I meant by "granted this is faster".
I just didn't want people thinking this was the "only" way to do it.
dwhicks01
ldmartin
Posted 1:46 PM 16/4/08
Umm Where is it ? I get a generic domain page when i go to the link. Alternate site with local Copy ?
ldmartin