Can I emulate Series Sorter functions?

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Back in the day I used to use a program called Series Sorter which did the following:

"Series Sorter sorts a series of like-named files into subdirectories of your choice. It provides point-and-click automated sorting, as well as, group sorting to a directory of your choice. Great time saver if you ever work with large amounts of files thrown together into one directory. The program also includes a built-in frame for previewing text, web and graphic file types."

As the program doesn't work on a 64bit os Is there a way I can do this in Directory Opus?

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Opus can probably do that, but the description doesn't have enough detail to be sure, or to say exactly how to do it.

e.g.

  • What does "like-named" mean exactly?
  • What does "point-and-click automated sorting" entail?
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I have for example six files, foo1.pdf, foo1.mobi, foo1.cdr, foo4.epub and foo4.pdf .

So I can get the three files called foo1.* into a directory I would select one from the menu and Series Sorter would identify the others in the series, I would then click on the move button, which then creates a new directory and moves the selected files into it. The two foo4 files would be left untouched.

I hope this explains what I meant?

The old website is archived here and there is a screen shot of what it used to do:

http://web.archive.org/web/20090104231840/http://www.learnxgroup.com/software/ssort.html

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I think this (bold-italics) part would be pretty cool, but it would require a script.

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We'd also need to define what a series really means.

In the example, it seems to mean "filenames which are the same up to the file extensions", but I am not sure if that is what is expected all the time.