Is there a faster way to do this?

04/23/2006 01:50:44 PM · #1

Hello DPC community!

I count on you guys to help me with the following problem:

I've downloaded 3087 fonts from a web site, all compressed (zipped). It took me quite a while to download them one by one (all this to avoid paying 10.00$).

Here's what I've been doing so far...

I've been opening them 40 at a time, cascade the windows and dragging and dropping the files (minus the "read me" files) into one big folder that I will eventually burn on a CD.

Is there a way that I can select the whole thing and automatically relocate them (all the files unzipped) in the big folder?

Thanks!

Message edited by author 2006-04-23 13:51:01.

fotomann_forever

04/23/2006 01:59:40 PM · #2

What do you need 3087 fonts for? :-P

Anyway, I think you are pretty much stuck doing it the way you are doing it.

Samsung Galaxy S24, S24+, S24 Ultra

04/23/2006 02:04:43 PM · #3

Originally posted by fotomann_forever:

What do you need 3087 fonts for? :-P

To do graphic design and have them all loaded up so I can switch from one to another in photoshop.

Why do I want 3087 ? I had to have them all (Obsessive-compulsive) ;-)

Bear_Music

Sony 24-70mm f/4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

04/23/2006 02:08:57 PM · #4

I'm not sure I understand. You're looking for a way to decompress batches instead on file-by-file? Stuffit has that feature, but you have to pay for it :-) Are you aware that if you upload 3000+ fonts into your windows font registry then programs like photoshop and pagemaker take forever to initialize when yous tart them? With that many fonts you'd want a font-management utility that allows you to group them into classes and load/unload them on the fly while working, so only your most commonly-used 100 or so actually are permanently installed.

R.

Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

04/23/2006 02:12:58 PM · #5

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

That's another thing I was wondering about. I had tried before to create subfolders in the fonts folder, but it didn't work, they had to be all "loose" within the fonts folder.

Any suggestion for a free "downloadable" font-management utility?

ashishkushwaha

Canon EOS-7D

04/23/2006 02:18:47 PM · #6

What i feel is that u should extract all at once in one single folder and then select them in groups of 40 or 50 and move them to the desired folders... this will save the burden of opening so many windows and cascading them .... i hope this helps as i didnt understand what exactly is the problem....

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Message edited by author 2006-04-23 14:19:31.

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

04/23/2006 03:05:04 PM · #7

Okay...

Robert, I've Googled "font-management", great stuff. Thanks.

I've re-downloaded WinZip (I had to reformat my computer recently and lost it)

With Winzip, I can select multiple folders to extract, but I still end up with different folder. Let me simplify my request.

I have a folder with thousands of folders. I want to suppress the folders but not the content (files). I want the content (files) to end up in one single folder. I'm sure there's a way in Windows to do this without using drag and drop for each one. Who knows how to do this?

Edit Changed files to folders to keep the vocabulary more exact

Message edited by author 2006-04-23 15:07:42.

MudHut

Canon EOS-40D

04/23/2006 03:18:40 PM · #8

That many fonts is sure going to slow down the time Photoshops takes to load ;)

04/23/2006 03:22:42 PM · #9

Originally posted by MudHut:

That many fonts is sure going to slow down the time Photoshops takes to load ;)

I'll use a font-management utility... So nevermind that.

04/23/2006 03:33:40 PM · #10

Okay... (deep breath)

I have folder that contains thoudands of folders that contains... Huh?... Excel sheets!!!

I want to move all of these Excel sheets in a single folder. What's the fastest and easiest way?

Message edited by author 2006-04-23 15:36:05.

fotomann_forever

04/23/2006 03:35:18 PM · #11

Originally posted by grandmarginal:

Okay...

I have folder that contains thoudands of folders that contains... Excel sheets!!!

I want to move all of these Excel sheets in a single folder. What's the fastest and easiest way?

Hire a highschool student ;-)

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D

04/23/2006 03:37:21 PM · #12

Originally posted by fotomann_forever:

Hire a highschool student ;-)

How many high-scholl students here on DPC? ;-)

David.C

04/23/2006 03:58:01 PM · #13

Originally posted by grandmarginal:

Pull up the folder the parent folder is in, select the parent folder and search it, including subfolders, for all files with the extention you are looking for ('*.xls' for excel spreadsheets, '*.ttf' for truetype fonts and so on). Select all in the search results and drag them to the folder (in another window) that you want them to be in.

David

Message edited by author 2006-04-23 15:58:50.

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

04/23/2006 04:07:25 PM · #14

Originally posted by David.C:

Hey! That should work! Thanks David!

gloda

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

04/23/2006 05:06:41 PM · #15

<-- University student. Is that okay?
Anyway WinRar allows you to extract the content from multiple archives into one folder. Is that what you need? It's free for 30 days.