Copy all files from folders and subfolders, without folders being copied

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So, a user has given me a usb stick full of files in hundreds of folders, they want the files all copied in to a new folder titled 'upload', and for this to only copy the files and not the folders or subfolders... can xcopy do this, or will this copy the folders also.

otherwise, does anyone know of a free gui utility out there that would do it?

 

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In windows 7 go to the root directory and do a search for *.*, that should list all the files included in the subfolders, the search is usually in the top right of explorer.
From the list that is created click the top file (folders may be first), scroll right to the bottom of the list, hold down shift and click on the last file, all the files should then be highlighted, hold down control and press C, this will copy the files.
Navigate to your "upload" folder, press control and V, this should paste them all in.

Windows XP you may need to use the search on the start menu.

Hope this helps.

 

You should use robocopy I think its the /s switch but it could be /r. I would look.

 

You could use PowerShell for this:

Code:

foreach($File in (Get-ChildItem E:\ -Recurse | where {! $_.PsIsContainer})) {
	Copy-Item $File.FullName ("C:\Upload\" + $File.Name)
	}

The above assumes your flash drive is E:\ and you want to copy to C:\Upload\. It also can't handle files with the same name, and will throw an error if this happens...

- Gav

 

This wouldn't be "Artistic" photography would it by any chance :P

 

haha nope not artistic photography, just thousands of reports in lots of folders... I have managed to copy them all over now, thanks for your tips.

 

Share what you did, somebody else may find the thread and what you did may help them.

 

I went for the search by "." and then just copied and pasted the results in to a new folder... on speaking to a friend of mine that enjoys coding in VB, he is going to knock together an application for doing these sort of things I believe.