RobJ

Added to FAQ (link back only), here. Feel free to edit or expand.

WeeboTech will probably be here soon with the more expert answer, and I haven't actually used rsync (!), but apart from that, wouldn't you want to use the UNC paths here? //tower/disk1/Backup/MKV Or if you have set up a User Share for Backup, then //tower/Backup/MKV

OK, that is just ridiculous! Do you realize what you have done? Showing us pictures of one of the more elegant wiring jobs I've seen? I was tempted to put up a pic of mine, but no more! And think of all of the other DIY'ers, who have now been so intimidated, their pictures went in the trash, and their machines into the closet! Edit: OK, I over did it a bit, but that was really impressive to me! Mine is rather embarrassingly wired.

I was hoping that one of the expert scripters here would provide a script or batch file for you, or that you had a favorite batch or scripting tool. I've created many batch files, some quite complex, but that was in my DOS days, prior to Long File Names. Batch files have changed some since then, and I'm very rusty. If I get to it, I'll try to come up with something, doesn't look very hard. I'm lazily still hoping someone else will though!

I would use a batch file or script, something like this pseudocode: for %dir in ( * ) if exist %dir\VIDEO_TS\*.* echo %dir move %dir\VIDEO_TS\*.* %dir del %dir\VIDEO_TS It will take a lot longer to work out the syntactical details, and test it, than it will take to run this script/batch, perhaps less then 10 minutes to run. I would test it on a temp folder containing copies of 3 movie folders. Since you are only moving directory entries, not moving or copying files, I think it would be better to do everything on a Windows machine, because you will have more choices available in scripting or batching tools. I'm afraid my batch file skills are too rusty to help.