Software to transform outline into hierarchy of (empty) folders

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 8, 2012 at 08:56 AM

Thanks for all the suggestions. $Bill, for some reason I did not see your post earlier; not sure whether I missed it or it was hidden due to the notorius forum bug. Either way, thanks!

The Text2Folders application mentioned in Jim’s first link worked fine, and it’s all that I need. Some reformatting of my text outline was necessary, but this was easy with the help of EmEditor’s column edit functions. The whole job (mostly reformatting) took me 35-40’ for about 250 directories; the folder creation itself took about 1”.

I’ve got a couple more such jobs coming up, so the exercise was worth it. I might see if other export formats need less tinkering to be read by Text2Folders. In any case, I would have to review the structure which was proposed by a colleague, so the reformatting itself is not a big issue.