Moving directory to different directory with all files and similar structure

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Hi,

People have kind of asked this before but not quite how I want it.

I would like to move

c:\Music\aaaa\random folder structure\

to

c:\Music\Copies\random folder structure\

With all its content and the same subfolders.

IE basically rename aaaa to copies.

I tried an action on Replace with regular expersion on _DIRECTORY but nothing happened and it struck me that if it did it for 5 files it must fail because the content would have been renamed so my approach is wrong. I am not sure how to get the correct approach as MP3tag is file based not folder based. Would prefer to use MP3tag if I can though and other posts suggest it might be possible.

2

Just to be sure:
You want to rename

C:\Music\ABBA\Waterloo
C:\Music\Beatles\Revolver

BOTH to the same fixed
C:\Music\COPIES
to become

C:\Music\COPIES\Waterloo
C:\Music\COPIES\Revolver
3

Hi,

Sorry not quite.

C:\Music\Flacs\Some More Subdirectories\ABBA\Waterloo
C:\Music\MP3\Beatles\Revolver

to become

C:\Music\COPIES\Some More Subdirectories\ABBA\Waterloo
C:\Music\COPIES\Beatles\Revolver

But I will be doing lots of files in C:\Music\Flacs\ and C:\Music\MP3

so am happy to change Flac and Mp3 manually on the instruction.

Basically my music has duplicates in it and I have it is several main folders and I want to move out the structures to C:\Music\COPIES. I can do it because I have allocated a genre of "Copy" hence I prefer to do it in MP3Tag

4

Looks ot me like you only have to rename "FLACS" to "Copies" and "MP3" to "COPIES" ...
And that would probably be faster with functions in the Explorer than to think of a function in MP3tag.

5

Do these sub folders contain any files that are not visible in mp3tag, such as pdf or images? If yes you may want to look at using Explorer to make the folder change.

Of not, and all the files you wish to move are already loaded into mo3tag, you can instead use the Converter Tag-Filename and rename the files using a combination of absolute values and tag fields. For example something like this should work.
c:\Music\Copies\%Albumartist%\%Album%\[%Discnumber%-]%Track% %Title%

6

Hi,
I currently have copies marked as 'copy' with a keyword in genre. In explorer I don't I expect I will be able to see that so mp3tag would be better but only if it can do it. I am not sure if it can or not. I probably won't both if it can't.

7

Yes there are other files in the directories so I would only want to do it if I could rename the folder. Moving individual files would be too risky in my view

8

The rule is fairly simple: if you want to move indivdiual files then rename the file
If you want to move a whole folder, then you can rename the current folder.
You cannot, though rename a folder somewhere up the line.
Then you would still have to rename the current folder with the new path and you will find empty folders above the current folder level.
These would have to be removed manually.

What you could do:
Use Convert>Tag-Tag for _Directory
Format string: $replace(%_folderpath%,MP3,Copies,FLAC,Copies)
and see where that gets you.

9

Blimey,

I tried that on a very complex path and it did the trick. Thanks. I only needed to do it on one item in the folder too so I am a bit stunned it achieved it.

I guess that might mean I need to be a bit more interactive than I thought but I certainly have the tool now.

I will run some more tests but I think that is what I needed. Many thanks

10

That does indeed seem to work well and even better I have finally spotted the filter function and so a filter of
%track% EQUAL 1 AND %genre% IS Copy

brings up a one click list of what I want to move.

MP3TAG is a stunning program absolutely amazing.

Thanks for the help