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Hassle-Free PC: Favorite Speedup Tweaks and Utilities

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Sort and Move Files More Easily

Do you regularly need to organize and move a hodgepodge of files from hither to yon (or just to another folder)? For my files, I use FileSort. I have a folder that contains my daily, incoming e-mail attachments--Word documents, videos, and images. In FileSort I've created rules to move specific files from that folder to others; for instance, it shuttles 15MB or larger video files to one folder and puts JPEGs in another. I've set the program to run every 30 minutes. Some rules can use wild cards, too: For example, the expression *.jpg moves every file that ends in .jpg.

Contributing Editor Steve Bass writes the Tips & Tweaks blog and is the author of PC Annoyances, published by O'Reilly. Contact him at hasslefreepc@pcworld.com.

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