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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1912534" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>Ok, here's a crazy idea I worked out. Assuming all these folders are located under a single master folder..... using Find Any File, search for the contents of that master folder. Add these as the parameters:</p><p></p><p>File size is greater than 0</p><p><em>is a folde</em>r set to <em>No</em>.</p><p></p><p>Now click on <em>Find</em>. You'll get a new window with all the contents of the master folder whose file sizes are greater than 0 (i.e. everything) and otherwise are not a folder. If you want to be certain... add another parameter where File size is equal to 0 also.</p><p></p><p>In your search results, press COMMAND-A to select everything. Now, you can simply drag everything from that results window to a Finder folder of your choice. Now, this will include a bunch of hidden files like .DS_Store, of which you'll have multiple hits (one for each folder). You can either de-select those before doing the move, or add another search parameter to skip hidden files.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1912534, member: 38864"] Ok, here's a crazy idea I worked out. Assuming all these folders are located under a single master folder..... using Find Any File, search for the contents of that master folder. Add these as the parameters: File size is greater than 0 [I]is a folde[/I]r set to [I]No[/I]. Now click on [I]Find[/I]. You'll get a new window with all the contents of the master folder whose file sizes are greater than 0 (i.e. everything) and otherwise are not a folder. If you want to be certain... add another parameter where File size is equal to 0 also. In your search results, press COMMAND-A to select everything. Now, you can simply drag everything from that results window to a Finder folder of your choice. Now, this will include a bunch of hidden files like .DS_Store, of which you'll have multiple hits (one for each folder). You can either de-select those before doing the move, or add another search parameter to skip hidden files. [/QUOTE]
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