I don’t have anything to undo it. You could do a simple search by extensions (ex.: *.avi, *.mkv) and then cut and paste all the found files to a different directory quite easily though.

I used this and it worked perfectly, thanks!

But – how would I reverse this action?

Is their a script that can undo this, and take the files back out of folders??

I ask, because I may one day not want Thumbnails, and want my movies in list format as they were before I ran this script.

Thanks

Yep, it’s in the download section.

Update 2:

It appears there may be an issue with copying the code off this post and inserting it into your own .bat file. So, in order to reduce (or resolve) the issues with it, I’m including the exact .bat file that I use. So far, there have been no reported issues with it. You can get it here (RAR format).

Hi Guys this file no longer exists. Can anyone help.

I fixed it for you. Wordpress does this by design…it’s not so much a bug (but an inconvenience either way). You can copy in tabbed spaces so long as you enclose you enclose it within <pre></pre>.

I also used the code tag since not using can introduce some oddities when copying text directly from Wordpress…especially script code.

It seems when posting on here the tabbed spaces are removed which cause the above linux scripts to not work, as previously mentioned by others.. guess I didn’t see that.

The lines starting with mkdir, directory, and mv, are tabbed spaced.

I wasn’t able to get the above Linux script to work so figured another way to do it.

this is for Linux, not windows. This will work provided there is only one file associated with the movie. If you have other stuff like folder.jpg or something it probably won’t be suitable.

Thanks,

#!/bin/bash
find . -name '*.*' | \
while read filename
do
      mkdir "${filename%.*}"
      directory=${filename%.*}
      mv "$filename" "$directory"/"$filename"
done

There’s only an issue if you run it against a network share that is not locally mapped to a drive letter. The quotes are necessary if you have space in any of your movie names or paths.

I too had the issue where it moved everything in c:\windows rather than the directory it was in. It might have something to do with the quote marks you use. My issue was on WHS (Windows Server 2003).

Time to rebuild :(

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