I need to be able to copy a huge number of tiny ~.gif files off of the CD that they came on (because the mfgr rudely stuck them into thousands of annoying little folders, each with 2 gif images) . . . and I'm bumping up against the Windows drag and drop limitations for a) getting the entire list to show up without their directories, and b) copying them to a temporary directory/CD where I can lump them together into respectable groups of, say, 3,000 images per directory.
What I'm looking for is some means by which to identify/filter a RANGE OF FILES ON THE CD within (someone's) Find box — eg. "000*.gif through and including 002.gif" — and then be able to commence extracting them from their terminally stupid directory structure (which makes viewing the images next to impossible in my thumbnail viewer because they are nested as many as 20 levels down, and contain exactly two images in each folder, ugh!)
Some of the more groovy file manager replacements let you apply filters . . . but none of them allow for a range, such as "apple.gif through and including axle.gif". You can get a*.gif, or the size (moot, in this case, as they are all the same size), or the date (again, moot, they have the same date).
Does anyone know of a product that can do this? Perform a "Greater Than/Less Than/Greater-than-Equal/Less-than-Equal" range search in a non-Unix environment?
DOS? I've scoured all my old DOS books but nowhere do I see a "From To range" directory search for files.
Thanks friends. I know this is OT but I just don't know who else to ask.
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Skye