10-01-2019, 06:03 PM
I'm wondering if anyone is aware of a program which selects multiple files at the same time. I have a program I wrote which takes the old version of a document, then updates it to the new standard but leaves the old one in case there are any issues with the new format. The documents are titles for what they are... which is irrelevant... but in the title is the version number at the end; ex. "Salamander (v8.1)" becomes "Salamander (v8.2)". Every time I do this, the couple of hundred of documents I have all now have duplicates and I want to be able to select all the old ones - (v8.1) in this example - and cut/paste them into an (v8.1) folder. I've had to manually do this now for versions 6.0 to 8.0 and have been completely unable to find a program which selects everything with "*v8.1" (* being wildcard). Google only shows me over and over how to do it with Windows by manually clicking each one. There are a plethora of programs which have the function to select files based on wildcard parameters... but they then want to rename the files or convert them. I don't need any of that... I only want to select them. I may just end up writing a short .bat or something if there's nothing else out there, but I'm unfamiliar with anything but vbs within Excel so, I really don't want to waste too much time doing this if there are already programs which do this. If you guys know of any, it's greatly appreciated.
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