Using MFI across for multiple folders

deliaaa

Hi, I'm trying to concatenate files using MFI but across different folders in the same main path but due to the massive number of files in the main path, I would like to direct it to specific folders using user input. However, it seems like MFI is only able to select a single folder as the path.

 

Another workaround I was thinking of is to search and copy the files with specific keywords in the file name to a new folder and then work from there, not sure if this way is faster and if there's a way to script this?

 

Thanks~

Craige_Hales

MFI uses a single starting point. Specifying multiple starting points would be a good Wish List item.

 

Using the recursive option from a folder that contains all of the interesting folders, and a file name pattern with the keywords, should be about as fast as other tools that could find the files and move them to a common folder. I've seen it gather one million (short) files in a few minutes.

 

If you are dealing with much more than a million files in the recursive folders, and only have a few (5?) directories you care about, you could always do 5 separate MFIs, then stack those results using JMP's table stack operation.