# Create folders based on suffix
**URL:** https://resource.dopus.com/t/create-folders-based-on-suffix/13927
**Category:** Help & Support
**Created:** [September 15, 2012, 2:25am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/create-folders-based-on-suffix/13927 "2012-09-15T02:25:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@LeonardB](https://resource.dopus.com/u/LeonardB)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2012, 2:25am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/create-folders-based-on-suffix/13927/1 "2012-09-15T02:25:50Z")
Hello all,
Although I have tried searching numerous times for this topic (it probably exists somewhere), I just cannot get lucky enough to find it. All I want to do is to create folders based on the file's suffix and move those files into their corresponding folder.
example:
BEFORE:
files
Leonard.PDF
Leonard.XLS
Leonard.DOC
AFTER:
folders/files
PDF
Leonard.PDF
XLS
Leonard.XLS
DOC
Leonard.DOC
Can someone please help?
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### Author:  [@MrC](https://resource.dopus.com/u/MrC)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2012, 3:36am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/create-folders-based-on-suffix/13927/2 "2012-09-15T03:36:28Z")
This topic is similar to your other request:
[Create subfolders](https://resource.dopus.com/t/create-subfolders/13654/2)
Use Rename with the following:
Old Name: (._).(._)
New Name: \2\\1.\2
Type: Regular Expressions
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### Author:  [@LeonardB](https://resource.dopus.com/u/LeonardB)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2012, 11:51am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/create-folders-based-on-suffix/13927/3 "2012-09-15T11:51:08Z")
Perfect! Thank you.
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### Author:  [@LeonardB](https://resource.dopus.com/u/LeonardB)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2012, 12:47pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/create-folders-based-on-suffix/13927/4 "2012-09-15T12:47:35Z")
Hi MrC
Unfortunately, that syntax did not work. It creates folders based on the name+suffix of the file. I was looking for the syntax that creates folders based only on the suffix. I'm not a programmer so these syntax are mind boggling to me. Leo's and your syntax are so different from each other that I would not know where to start in experimenting.
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### Author:  [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/create-folders-based-on-suffix/13927/5 "2012-09-15T13:42:00Z")
MrC's suggestion looks like it does what you wanted:
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### Author:  [@LeonardB](https://resource.dopus.com/u/LeonardB)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/create-folders-based-on-suffix/13927/6 "2012-09-15T14:13:48Z")
Hi.
I created a button using the syntax and the result is file name+suffix. Did I do something wrong?
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### Author:  [@Jon](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Jon)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2012, 2:21pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/create-folders-based-on-suffix/13927/7 "2012-09-15T14:21:26Z")
You've got "(.)(._)" as your 'from' pattern instead of "(._).(.\*)"
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### Author:  [@LeonardB](https://resource.dopus.com/u/LeonardB)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/create-folders-based-on-suffix/13927/8 "2012-09-15T14:27:20Z")
Well, that was somewhat embarrassing. 😊 I focused only on the latter syntax and not the first part. But It works now! Thank you everyone for your help.