Moving Folders w/files

current command d:\Sunday\<word:2>

above zero..
below ceiling

creates subfolders zero and ceiling inside Sunday, and move's files with folders.

i already have a folder inside Sunday called "once Below"
i need a way to move "once above" into "once Below" by way of the first word Once in once above
but not create a folder "once" inside sunday but it creates and moves inside Once below.

Reply to #1:

Hi Hobbs,

I don't understand. If it were that simple, why wouldn't you just drag and drop the "once above" folder into the "once Below" folder? I think you have probably omitted crucial details. Can you show us your folder structure/folder names, and explain the problem more fully?

Best,
DF

Reply to #2:
THANKS FOr your reply

yes if this was a one time deal drag drop ok but it's thousands of time's and it could use the second word "once" again but it will be many different second words, in fact first and third words as well.

in folder sunday, i have Anne Halimore and i have a folder My anne was once....

move with second word <word:2> creates a folder anne but i want "my anne was once ..."
moved into Anne Halimore, and because there are alot to do i was hoping for automation

i know i can use word commands in move in fact i can move any folder by any length
and create that folder but this is different i want to choose the length of words to use and choose where they go using the move command,thanks

Reply to #3:

Thanks Hobbs,

Yeah, I don't think it's going to be possible to do that in ARen, for the simple reason that (as far as I know) there's no way to interrogate folder names not directly involved in the list of folders. In other words, if you want to move a folder "Anne something" to a folder "\Sunday\Anne Halimore", there's no way to step through the folders in the Sunday directory and look at their names, even in ARen's javascript - there's very little access to folder manipulation. If you made a list of folders in the target directory and converted it to a .csv-type file you might be able to do something like that, but you'd have to do that every time AND you'd have to have logic in the script to identify the key word that you want to search for.

Probably an easier way is to use a program like Directory Opus to search for all the folders that have the word Anne (for instance), then drag them *only* into ARen and tell it where to put them. You'd have to do it for each keyword, but it would be a lot easier than anything else I can think of.

Another alternative would be to make a program using something like node.js with javascript or the python language with its file access modules, and just write a program that would do exactly what you want. That would probably be a lot of work, depending on your knowledge of a useful programming language.

Hopefully someone else will chime in with a simple answer, but I don't know what it would be. Sorry.

Best,
DF

Reply to #4:
THANKS AGAIN for the reply

i tried move with d:\sunday\<word:1>\<word:2>
but it just creates a folder on first word

but for me the best work around is too limit all folders in "sunday" to one word
and then i can control the move portion how i want it
i was hoping not too do that but it;s cool

folder "my anne ...
using d:\sunday\<word:2> move this folder to Anne, and i renamed anne halimore to just anne

thanks again
even so still awesome program

Reply to #5:

> even so still awesome program

Completely agree! :)