Taking out files from folders in a batch

pendragon_arther

I'm not sure how to describe this one, but I have a folder containing multiple folders each with a video file inside. Is there an idiots way to take out all the video files in one go instead of opening each folder and laboriously extracting each one in turn?

TIA

Moto2

From a command shell you could use xcopy

xcopy c:\*.avi d:\videos /sy

The above should move everything in c with the file extension .avi to a directory in d called videos
You'll obviously need to change the parameters to suit your particular files and directories

indesisiv

Just use the search function in windows.
Open the folder containing the folders and hit ctrl+f
Type *.avi , or *.mkv etc (depending on the video extension)
This will then list all of the matches for you, select them and copy them somewhere else.

pendragon_arther

Cheers to both of you, I used the latter method.