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Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 6, 2012 at 11:02 AM

 

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Thanks, this is useful to know. Unfortunately I don’t have a license for recent
>versions of DOpus. The CRIMPer in me would love this occasion to upgrade, but the
>amount of copy/paste still seems considerable.

I wonder if “find and replace” in NoteTab or CT could replace your tabs and spaces with commas and backward slashes and reduce it to just one copy/paste. But you’d still need DOpus… Though I see there is now a DOpus Lite around as well. Or even just use it for free during the trial…

>I can afford to postpone the
>activity for a couple of days more, so I’ll look around for alternatives. 

Let us know what you find. This is an interesting problem.

 


Posted by $Bill
Nov 6, 2012 at 12:02 PM

 

Perhaps little Powershell scripting, like this example


http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/11/05/use-powershell-to-read-csv-files-and-create-files-and-folders.aspx

 


Posted by jimspoon
Nov 6, 2012 at 12:09 PM

 

just a couple of ideas

Quick Tip: Create Folders and Subfolders in Bulk Using a Text File - How-To Geek - http://tmpl.at/RFRXn2

http://brettterpstra.com/planter-tree-planting-for-your-filesystem/

 


Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 6, 2012 at 05:40 PM

 

Jim, many thanks!

I’ll try the first one out later today and report back.

Actually, the second looks even more ideal, but I have no idea how to do the stuff it describes even in contemporary BASIC, let alone Ruby…

 


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.

 


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