One of my users has a truckload of folders named Reference A, Reference B and so on, and now she wants to copy the contents of all the Reference... folders to one single folder. Is there an easy way of doing this?? Thanks in advance! -- Martin

Open Explorer, create the new folder, click on the drive letter where the original folders are, go to the right pane, press Ctrl and click each folder to copy. Right click, copy, click on the new folder, right click, paste. :)

No, she doesn't want the contents to be in the original folders any more, she wants all the files to be directly in the new folders. -- Martin

Then instead of copy use cut and paste.A copy is safer.If something happens during the cut and paste operation, she could lose a lot.Copy then paste and once fully copied go to the originals and delete them.

OK, so there is no easy way of doing this then? There are like 100 folders, not very fun to do manually. I think I'll write a program doing it for me... -- Martin

I can think of two ways to do this. It would help if all the Reference folders were subfolders of a single drive or folder like : \All Reference\Reference A and \All Reference\Reference B etc. Then it would be easy to use Search. Just right-click the parent folder and search for "*.*" (without the quotes). This will return everything, files and folders. Use the column headers to sort (right-click once to sort A/D - again to reverse sortation) by "Name" or by "Type". This should separate the files from the folders. Now just select (single right-click) the first file, scroll down to the last file, then hold down the shift key and select that last file. This should select all the files and none of the folders. Now right-click one of the selected files and chose "Cut". Then just paste into the desired new folder. The other idea I had was to use a zip/unzip utility to zip up all the files and then to unzip then into the target directory being sure to disable/uncheck the option to use folder names. In any case, ALL the file names would need to be unique from each other before you begin. Good Luck! Andy

Ah, brilliant! Thanks a lot! -- Martin