Moving files from subfolders into parent directory quickly

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I had a situation today that caused me some grief. I cloned subfolder contents into a USB hard drive and I thought only the contents of the subfolders were copied. Instead...it turned out I had duplicated the subfolder structures themselves into the new directory.

Unfortunately...my mistake was two fold. I first manually copied the files from the subfolders using Beyond Compare as I didn't see how I could construct a kiddie script on the fly in Directory Opus to do the same thing. The problem was I did the copy from Beyond Compare incorrectly...causing me to copy the subfolder structures along with the files into the USB drive.

My second problem once I saw the error of my ways was trying to figure out how to extract the contents of these subfolders into the current folder without manually going through each one. As it happened...I tried to see how time consuming it would be to do this manually...by actually getting into each subfolder and then "moving" the contents into the parent directory. I did this for two subfolders before I realized it would cost me way too much time. So I went back into Beyond Compare and redid the operation...only this time I set it correctly to follow my instructions.

However, there must have been a way for me to do this via Directory Opus without going through the mess I did. Does anybody know of any commands I could have put together in a script for a button that allows me to move the contents of the subfolders and puts them into the parent without manually entering each subfolder? Thanks.

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If I've understood correctly then those four paragraphs can be summed up as this:

"I have several folders and I want to move the files in them up a level"

Assuming all of the folders are in one place then I would use Flat View for the job. That lets you select all the files, then Cut and Paste them into a one place. (You could also do the same thing using some Find instead of Flat View.)

I think it can also be done via a button which copies files from inside the selected folders to the parent of each folder. Such a button can be if the folders are not all in the same place and you don't want all the files to end up in the same place.

(I think there have been one or two threads about doing something similar in the past where you might find a button if you don't want to use Flat View for some reason. Not completely sure though.)