Flatten Folders: Quick Start
 Specify
what you want to flatten
-
Select the folders you want to flatten.
-
Select
Actions
| Flatten Folders...
or (Alt+A,F)
from the main menu to open the controlling dialog.
Specify the target folder and any additional
options
Click image for Advanced view
- Enter the Destination
folder.
To flatten all files to the starting folder(s), i.e.
the selected folders, just enter SELF
as the destination folder
- Enter the Optional file
patterns to include/exclude.
Multiple patterns are separated with the semi-colon
(;), comma (,) or bar character (|). To exclude
patterns precede them with the minus sign, e.g.
-*.bak
- To enter advanced
options
click the Advanced button. To see
the expanded advanced dialog click
here.
- Click
OK
to search and create a Virtual Folder of all
matching files
More about the Destination Folder
In the flatten folders dialog tell File Boss where
the files should be flatten too. You can either enter a
full path or enter SELF.
Entering SELF tells FileBoss to flatten the files
to the topmost, i.e. selected, folder(s). So if you have 10 folders
selected each will be flattened to the 10 selected folders individually.
By default FileBoss adds sequential numbers after
the name of any file that has a the same filename as one
that already exists. You can change this using the
Advanced
options.
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