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Have 7 seasons of a show downloaded, but each episode is in it's own folder. What would be easiest way to restructure this to just 7 'season' folders? (alien.top)

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Edit: I'm on Mac.

So basically first folder is 'S01E01' and it contains S01E01.mkv, second folder is 'S01E02' and it contains S01E02.mkv, and so on.

Is there some easy way to restructure this into just 7 'season' folders containing the episode files?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I use the app Everything from voidtools, I can find the files by season in fractions of a second

exampletvshow S01

and then cut (the files - not the folder) and paste to a new folder. Not too high tech or advanced, but really fast and easy. I run into this all the time when downloading episodes from usenet and organize them.

Edit: just reread the OP that he's on mac

https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/wyb4q0/everything_voidtoolscom_alternative_for_mac_os/