I have a large collection of MP3's
when I import collections I have them land in a folder for going over to make sure they have the proper naming format & are
I can't seem to get rid of redundent folders, using cut & paste
also is there a way to do tabs?

Could you provide a bit more info:

- when importing are you changing the naming (tracks and/or folders)? if so from what to what? how are you doing this importing?

- what exactly are the "redundant folders"? you mean duplicate folders containing duplicate tracks? where there were duplicates before the import or the dups were created during the import ? "cut and paste, why not just delete?

I really just look at the properties of a few files, to make sure they are infact mp3's & that the tags are reasonably accurate, this avoids ending up with unlabeled mystery file floating around in my music folder, I might fix problems & then move to music or just delete

this morning I had a folder
Slade
mostly folders of individual albums
one folder contained 10 albums
I would have like to just opened the folder highlighted one>cntrl A> cut
go to the parent & paste
I get a pink header towards the bottom of the screen & a bunch of individual files
actually my entire music folder is nested inside another folder, which I hate, but can't seem to do anything but make worse...
I have the same problem with picture files
the files are big enough that I used GRSYNC to import off an external HDD originally

Garthhh wrote:also is there a way to do tabs?

You can open a new tab in Dolphin using Control+T.

Concerning the other issue: unfortunately, I don't quite understand what exactly the problem is

I also don't get it. Do you mean this: You got a folder which has a few subfolders, each containing several files, and you want to copy/cut all of them without entering each indivitual subfolder? You can't do that with dolphin, but you could do something like

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for file in $(find . -name '*.mp3'); do cp $file .; done

or similar.

Greetings

scummos wrote:I also don't get it. Do you mean this: You got a folder which has a few subfolders, each containing several files, and you want to copy/cut all of them without entering each indivitual subfolder? You can't do that with dolphin, but you could do something like

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for file in $(find . -name '*.mp3'); do cp $file .; done

or similar.

Greetings

I have 600+ folders, one for each artist
all 600+ are in a folder named musicbu which is inside the music folder

pictures a similar problem
apparently I'm not understanding something basic about dolphin

I still don't understand your problem. Maybe you should pastebin a sample of ls -R or so, so we can see what your directory structure looks like.

scummos wrote:I still don't understand your problem. Maybe you should pastebin a sample of ls -R or so, so we can see what your directory structure looks like.

what is -R?
the problem is an extra layer of nesting
the files are too big to move directly, the music files are over 100g

Garthhh wrote:

scummos wrote:I also don't get it. Do you mean this: You got a folder which has a few subfolders, each containing several files, and you want to copy/cut all of them without entering each indivitual subfolder? You can't do that with dolphin, but you could do something like

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for file in $(find . -name '*.mp3'); do cp $file .; done

or similar.

Greetings

I have 600+ folders, one for each artist
all 600+ are in a folder named musicbu which is inside the music folder

pictures a similar problem
apparently I'm not understanding something basic about dolphin

Might this be a permissions issue?, set differently for some folders/files perhaps

Maybe take a look at the properties of your Music folder, and check your user permissions and set "Apply all changes to subfolders and their contents".

Moving files is a trivial operation and is fast regardless of the size of the file moved, unless you move it to another physical device.

-R lists files recursively.

Give an example of your directory layout, and an example of how you want it to be. I still don't get it.

Greetings

scummos wrote:Moving files is a trivial operation and is fast regardless of the size of the file moved, unless you move it to another physical device.

-R lists files recursively.

Give an example of your directory layout, and an example of how you want it to be. I still don't get it.

Greetings

here's a screenshot of what is
https://picasaweb.google.com/GcHoyman/M ... directlink

How do I get rid of the redundant Pictures folder?

Select all the subfolders, cut them, go to the parent folder, paste, and delete the now-empty Pictures folder.

scummos wrote:Select all the subfolders, cut them, go to the parent folder, paste, and delete the now-empty Pictures folder.

I got it now
I was right clicking & pasting on the file path next to the folder icon
just a habit I had when using nautilus or windows explorer
I needed to have the cursor in a blank part of the list of files

upon further reflection & study
if I go to a directory [music]
find + *
click audio files box
only the files [mp3] are displayed, which I can cut/copy into where ever I need