This is a simple enough utility that does what it says on the tin... in keeping with the Windows and x2 behaviour it is also .HTM/.HTML friendly, in that if you move an .HTML file it will automatically find and move its associated "_files" folder as well (even if it's not selected) - and vice-versa. All folders are completely overwritten, not merged, as merging things is an unnatural act that never should have been allowed out of the barnyard.
Download: MoveToParent (Updated 10-Aug-11)
The basic User Command syntax is:
> "C:\MoveToParent.exe" $A
You must pass full pathnames to it. (If you use x2 2.0, I suggest using the /List=$> command instead, as it allows an infinite number of selections to be safely passed.)
And, yes. it's Scrap container friendly.
This utility has a bespoke DPI-aware "Conflict Dialog" which some might find amusing... if there's anyone who would want to use this in their own AutoIt script the source code is included as a separate file - all you need to do is #Include "_ConflictDialog.AU3" in your project and call it as described in the source text comments.
If you use a comparison utility, the User Command can be configured as such:
> "C:\MoveToParent.exe" /List=$> /Utility="C:\Program Files (x86)\Beyond Compare 3\BCompare.exe"
I've tested this with Beyond Compare and WinMerge, but I personally suggest Beyond Compare (the absolute greatest "comparison utility" in existence), as it will automatically identify whatever types of files you're comparing - folders, files, pictures, text, etc, and handle them accordingly.
The Modified Date tooltip will only give the two most significant bits of data - as in "2 Years, 6 Months" or "2 Minutes, 35 seconds", etc - as, for example, it would be kind of silly to report all the possibilities if the files are years apart (who needs to know "6 years, 3 months, 8 hours, 27 minutes, 53 seconds?") - so I kept it as a simple generalisation instead. (A very odd "feature" of this generalisation can occur if the objects are say exactly 3 years and 5 seconds apart, with no difference in months, days, hours, or minutes - the tooltip will literally read "Newer by 3 years, 5 seconds" which I found rather amusing, so I left it in.
)Enjoy (or throw popcorn - I'm easily amused, either way).
