Hi Leo, you're right - changing the "." to "*" worked! But I guess after reading the post you linked to there's no easy way to achieve the complete flattening of a folder (including all subfolders) with a button. I tried your dirflatten tool but I can't seem to get it working. I guess for now I"ll just resort to flatview and then select and move.
BTW, the strange thing about changing the "." to "*" is that in the following post that first button using "." was the only solution to "defolder" when the extract here command wasn't working (in previous versions).
[url]Extract HERE not working]
It's strange that at that time the "." was fine in the code, but for some reason now it's not.