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Hi,

is it possible with xyplorer, to move/organize files (including subfolders) based on their creation date?

For example:
all files created between 1/1/2012 until 31/12/2012 are to be moved (automatically) to folder "2012"
same for 1/1/2013 - 31/12/2013 to be moved to folder 2013
and so on and so on.

So I need to be able to set conditions on move actions and define source and target folders.

Is this possible with xyplorer? If so, how?

Thanks,
Mathijs

By scripting but... no, not automatically (scripts can't run continuously because they block XY's interface while they're running).

Hmmm, actually I thought move on rename wasn't restricted to inline renames... Strange...

Don? Can't we get a way to have move on rename with the "regular" rename options, too?

You could use the Move/Copy/Backup To... commands.

1. Select the items you wish to move.
2. From the menu select Edit | Move To... or File | Move/Copy/Backup To... | Move To | Move To....
3. In the Move To dialog click Browse....
4. Select the destination folder, for example: C:\Destination
5. Modify the destination shown to include a date variable, for example: C:\Destination\<datec yyyy>\
6. Select Move.

You can skip selecting the destination folder and just use <datec yyyy> to create the folders in the current path.

You can modify the yyyy to be any date format, for more information see the Advanced Topics > Variables > Date Variables section of the help.

Instead of using the created date you can use another date by changing the datec to one of the following:

• date - Current date.
• datem - Modified date.
• datec - Created date.
• datea - Accessed date.
• dateexif - EXIF data (generally only useful for photos/images).

Ok, different approach but gets us to the expected result, I guess...

but gets us to the expected result

No, not really. He is talking about automagical file & folder management. An external tool (something like https://www.deventerprise.net/DirectoryMonitor or http://www.nodesoft.com/foldermonitor or an ahk.exe that is able to monitor file system events (or at least do it as a repetitive task) would be the way to go... And they need help from a script file (e.g. .bat / .vbs, etc.), too because their date variable doesn't deliver the year only (iirc).

Ok, I didn't get the "automatic" thing... Maybe because I never expected XY to do stuff automatically for me.

XYplorer is a File Explorer and thus a tool to help us doing our stuff smooth and (hopefully) easy. It was and will never be a tool to do stuff automatically without user interaction.

Maybe that's why I always thought of a "move on rename" or "move to variable folder" operation as these are the closest things I deem reasonable for a File Explorer like XYplorer.

Moving and/or sorting files automatically would be a File or Data Management Software. (Well, that's how I would call it, at least) That's an entirely different Software.

I don't think mgroen meant "automatically" in that auto-pilot way. Rather as opposed to "manually". TheQwerty's approach is the perfect solution IMO.

PS: Something like the Country & Western script here (http://www.xyplorer.com/release_12.20.htm#CTB) could work as well when modified to separate files by creation date...