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Joel Coehoorn
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We have a system here that recently had a hard drive failure. I was able to use recovery software to get most of the files off of it, but it was not able to retrieve folder names for the most part. Instead, it dumped most everything (some 200,000 files!) into one folder. This is death for the Windows file system.

Can anyone recommend a good (preferably free) program to automatically sort these files into new folders?

In this case, the files are at least already grouped by type. I was thinking to sort by either name, or creation/modified date and then name.

We have a system here that recently had a hard drive failure. I was able to use recovery software to get most of the files off of it, but it was not able to retrieve folder names for the most part. Instead, it dumped most everything (some 200,000 files!) into one folder. This is death for the Windows file system.

Can anyone recommend a good (preferably free) program to automatically sort these files into new folders?

We have a system here that recently had a hard drive failure. I was able to use recovery software to get most of the files off of it, but it was not able to retrieve folder names for the most part. Instead, it dumped most everything (some 200,000 files!) into one folder. This is death for the Windows file system.

Can anyone recommend a good (preferably free) program to automatically sort these files into new folders?

In this case, the files are at least already grouped by type. I was thinking to sort by either name, or creation/modified date and then name.

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Joel Coehoorn
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Program to group files from one large folder into several smaller ones?

We have a system here that recently had a hard drive failure. I was able to use recovery software to get most of the files off of it, but it was not able to retrieve folder names for the most part. Instead, it dumped most everything (some 200,000 files!) into one folder. This is death for the Windows file system.

Can anyone recommend a good (preferably free) program to automatically sort these files into new folders?