Automatically move files to another folder without scripts
Posted on January 6, 2009 at 5:41 am
Have you ever written a Windows script that would check a folder every so often and then move files from that folder to another location? For IT people, this is a common task, such as moving log files or copying data from an FTP folder on one server to another.
Even for normal computer users, this can be very useful. For example, wouldn’t it be cool if you could have all of your downloads from your Internet browser automatically moved into different locations depending on the file type? So if you download a PDF file, it can be moved to a folder where you store documents or if it’s a video, it can be moved to My Videos automatically!
Download Mover is a really cool app that does just that! It will check one or more folders on your hard drive at regular intervals and moves the files inside those folders to another location that you specify based on the file type.
About a year back I wrote about a program called FileMove Lite that will also automatically move files at scheduled times between folders, but the only problem is that it had no option to filter. So it would move ALL files from one folder to another, regardless of file type.
Download Mover has the added benefit of being able to move different types of files to different target folders or to not move certain file types at all.
As you can see from the screen shot, the program has a decent number of features. The top combo box has a list of all the directories that are being watched. Choose one or create a new directory to watch and then you can configure the settings below.
Click new to add a file extension and the target folder to move the files too. You can add as many file extensions as you like for each watched directory. At the bottom you can set the interval for the file checking and whether or not you want to show a confirmation or error message every time a file is moved.
The program, unfortunately, is no longer supported by the developer, but works really well on XP. I have not tried it on Vista, but I think it will still work. Overall, it’s a great program that can be used by anyone without having to write any kind of Windows scripts.
If you use only Firefox, you can install the Download Sort add-on that does the same thing, but just with Firefox downloads. If you are on a Mac, check out a program called Hazel that allows you to create folder actions on a Mac. [via LifeHacker
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Fabulous little app! I am constantly downloading movies, MP3s, PDFs, etc to my computer and I tend to leave them all in the default folder until it becomes huge. Then I spend two days sorting it all out. This program now moves all my files automatically and makes my life easy! THANKS!
Great tip! I have been wanting to do this for so long and now I can! Thank you!
search “RoboBasket” in google you can find a software which can auto process files based on user created set of rules. It’s just like Hazel for windows.
Is there a way to do this on a Mac? I use Download Mover for my PC, but I have to automatically move files from a download folder to a different folder. I’m running Mac OS X. Thanks in advance.
There is an easy way to do something very similar to this without any programs. Set your browser to ask you where you want to download your files to each time you go to download a file, and set the default location that comes up to some folder on your computer. Then inside that folder, simply create shortcuts to the other places you would put your files based on filetype. For example have a “Downloading a Picture”, “downloading a video” and a “downloading a torrent” shortcut; all in this one folder. This way each time you download something you can esily sort where it needs to be based on filetype.
Hi,
I am not a software professional. Here’s what I’m trying to do, maybe someone can point me in the right direction.
I’m looking for a solution to streamline stock trading that I do. I need the most recent sale price of a stock fed to an Excel spreadsheet. There it is run thru an existing spreadsheet formula where a cash figure is divided by the stock price to produce a certain number of shares. For example, the stock price $50 is fed into a cell in Excel, the cash figure of $1000 is divided by the stock price of $50 to produce a figure in another cell of 20 shares.
Simple enough.
Then, I want to be able to have the number of shares (in this example 20) and stock price (here $50) automatically fed into fields in a trade order form in TD Ameritrade. All on an ongoing real time basis.
Are there any programs that automatically type data between different program fields? Rather than integrating different and probably incompatable programs?
Thanks.
maybe autohotkey can help you, but there is a learning curve