Making more then 1 folder at a time in Windows

[Torn Rose]

I am redoing my videos into specific categories and need to make around 200 new folders. Does anyone know how I can make them without doing it one at a time?

As in

explorer file>new>folder

Any suggestions help would be greatly appreciated.

[Torn Rose]

Ok, I figured out a faster way.

I made 10 folders; copy/paste to a different location renamed and pasted once more, renamed, copied them all, pasted back in first location, renamed all, and repeated until I had the # I wanted.

MUCH faster then one at a time.

I’m going to leave this thread up instead of removing it, I am curious if others have any other idea.

[Alphawolf]

Bets I could find was this:

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Enter this at the command prompt:

for /f %q in (C:\fileWithList.txt) do (mkdir
C:\Path\Where\You\Would\Like\Directories\Created\%q)

If you put this in a .bat, %q changes to %%q.
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But this presumes you have a text list of folder names.

[MrMaryLou]

Originally posted by Torn
Ok, I figured out a faster way.

I made 10 folders; copy/paste to a different location renamed and pasted once more, renamed, copied them all, pasted back in first location, renamed all, and repeated until I had the # I wanted.

MUCH faster then one at a time.

I’m going to leave this thread up instead of removing it, I am curious if others have any other idea.

Thats about the fastest way I have found to do it

[Torn Rose]

A friend found this online, which I tried and made the 10 folders this way, but the flaw is a lot of typing, and only 250 characters limit.

from command prompt
start/run/cmd or start/programs/accessories/command prompt

type “md folder1 folder2 folder3 etc”


Thanks for the suggestion Alpha, not that I understand it

[Entreri]

Originally posted by Torn
from command prompt
start/run/cmd or start/programs/accessories/command prompt

type “md folder1 folder2 folder3 etc”

Thanks for the suggestion Alpha, not that I understand it

If you already have a list of folders, Alpha's suggestion would be much faster though. If that something you have to do often, I suggest getting your hands on a small Perl script to automate that task.

A note about md in DOS... say you'd want to create the following folders :

D:\movie\hardcore\oral

You could do three md to create them but a single md movie\hardcore\oral would create all three folders hierarchy in one shot (that is, oral in hardcore in movie).

Entreri.