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BacklitVillain

2010-11-16, 12:40
My films rips are stored in one folder eg:

G:\Films\Film1.av1 film2.avi film3.mkv etc

Now that I am getting more in to the xbmc idea of things i want each film in its own folder, so i can have all the subtitles, custom fanart, .info file etc sitting with each film. eg:

G:\Films\Film1\Film1.avi
G:\Films\film2\film2.avi etc

I have got a few hundred movies, and i know that is a small amount to some people, but to create a folder for each on and type out the name, copy the files, recrape et is going to take me ages.

so, basically my question is, what is the quickest/easiest/best way to go about this?

Thanks in advance

p.s im using windows xp

Vicious

2010-11-16, 13:33
You can make a script that creates a folder named as your movie files.
Example:
movie 1 file name: movie1.xvid.avi
folder 1 name created: movie1.xvid
movie 2 file name: movie2.avi
folder 2 name created: movie2

Code:
#!/bin/sh

for file in *         #Read every file in current folder
do
  name=${file%\.*}    #Remove file ending (.avi for example)
  mkdir \"$name\"       #Creates the folder
  mv \"$file\" \"$name/\"   #Move the files into that folder
done;

This will create a folder for each unique filename you have, file types not included.

If there's 4 files for example:
Movie.x264.1080p.Group.mkv
Movie.x264.1080p.Group.srt
Movie.x264.1080p.Group.nfo
Movie.jpg

There will be 2 folders:
Movie.x264.1080p.Group, containing 3 first files
Movie, containing the .jpg file

Edit: Sorry didn't see you were running Win XP

>>X<<

2010-11-16, 14:10
If you use "Ember Media Manager" it can sort your movies into folders for you just make sure you enable the following

In settings under movies > Files and Sources select "Sort files into folders before each library update"

If you use Ember to scrape make sure you also select "Scrape full cast" under movies > Scrapers Data otherwise your movie details will have lots of info missing as imdb changed their layout and this is a work around

BacklitVillain

2010-11-16, 14:31
thanks, ill give that a try

Vicious

2010-11-16, 14:33
This batch script does the same but for win xp:
Code:
@echo off
FOR /f "delims=" %%? IN ('DIR /B /A:-D') DO MKDIR "%%~n?"
FOR /f "delims=" %%? IN ('DIR /B /A:-D') DO MOVE "%%?" "%%~n?"

Copy the code to a empty text document, save as something.bat.
Put the file in the folder you want and run it.
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