Author Topic: Preserving original directory structure in file organizer / sync settings  (Read 790 times)

amingle

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I am looking to sync my music to a portable device, but maintain a similar directory structure to what I have now on my computer.  Here's an example of my scenario:

On my computer, file is located at:
C:\Subfolder1\Subfolder2\Grouping1\Artist\Album\filename

On my portable device, I would like it to be located at:
<Device>\Music\Grouping1\Artist\Album\filename

However, I cannot "extract" the Grouping1\Artist\Album that I need.  I am able to do it as a virtual tag, but that does not help when trying to use it as a Naming Template.

The issue seems to occur because of the fact that backslashes are removed from the path and replaced with spaces, as described in this post.  I am able to use the "replace" function to get rid of the "C:\Subfolder1\Subfolder2", but the problem then is that I am left with "Grouping1 Artist Album", because the slashes are removed.  If all of the "groupings" and artists and albums were one word and did not have spaces, I could then go back and replace spaces with slashes (and get Grouping1\Artist\Album), but that is of course not the case.

Does anyone know of a way around this?