How to Sort Files into Folders

This tutorial can help you to learn how to sort your files into folders with a simple drag&drop on DropIt. For example you will be able to organize your photos into dated folders, to organize your documents by file type, to separate your media by tags and much more.

These are only a few of the features offered by DropIt. The program is able to process files with several different actions, but now will be described only some solutions to sort files into destination folders.

If you are new with DropIt, you can start reading How to Start with DropIt and How to Create your First Association. Now will be described some examples with the following structure:

• the same association name: File Sorting
• the same rule to match with all files: *.*
• the same action: Move
• a different destination folder for each example

 

Sort images into dated folders:

You can use DropIt to organize your photos into subfolders named with the file date. Do it is simple: you only need to click the “Abbreviations” button available on the right and select the desired date abbreviations.

Selected date abbreviations will be added in your destination field and during process they will be replaced with the correct file date. Some examples of destination folders:

C:\Images\%DateTaken%

C:\Images\%YearTaken% – %MonthTaken%

C:\Images\%YearTaken%\%MonthTaken%\%DayTaken%

 

Sort files by file properties:

You can use DropIt to organize your files into subfolders named with many other file properties. You can do it with the same previous method. Selected abbreviations will be added in your destination field and during process they will be replaced with the correct  file property. Some examples of destination folders:

C:\Docs\%DateCreated%\%TimeCreated%

C:\Docs\%FileType%

C:\Docs\%FileExt%

C:\Docs\%ParentDirName%

 

Sort music into subfolders named with tags:

You can also use DropIt to organize your mp3 files into subfolders named with music tags. You can do it with the same previous method. Some examples of destination folders:

C:\Music\%SongArtist%\%SongAlbum%

C:\Music\%SongGenre%\%SongArtist%

C:\Music\%SongYear%\%SongArtist% – %SongAlbum%

C:\Music\%SongGenre%\%SongArtist%