How to find selected file name and path in windows explorer

[kcvinu]

Hi there,

I have a few download folders and they contains hundreds of downloaded files. So i need to cut each file and make a new folder there and paste my file inside that folder. This is the steps to automate;

1. If i select a file in win explorer and right click it, then i need a context menu option there. ("Move file into      folder")

2. If i select the context menu item, then 

 2 a. Find the name of the selected file

 2 b. Cut the file and create a new folder there.

 2 c. Rename the folder with the filename(i.e. if file name is "Winrar_setup_32_Bit.exe", then the folder name should be "Winrar".

 2 d. Paste the file inside the folder. 

For this task, i know;

1. how to create a folder

2. how to cut n number of letters from file name with StringLeft()

And i don't know;

1. how to make a context menu entry for my script.

2. how to get the selected file name

3. how to rename the folder

4. how to cut and paste the selected file.

Edited January 23, 2015 by kcvinu

[jdelaney]

DirCreate
_FileListToArray
FileCopy

[kcvinu]

Hi 

jdelaney, Thank you for the quick reply. But i have edited the question. So i request you to read the question once again please.

[SmOke_N]

And i don't know;

1. how to make a context menu entry for my script.

2. how to get the selected file name

3. how to rename the folder

4. how to cut and paste the selected file.

 

1.  Don't, that's poor form, relying on a context menu not being interrupted by another app.

2.  Use _FileListToArray(), work out the extensions you want to list

3.  DirMove()/FileMove() will allow you to rename a folder/file

4.  DirMove()/FileMove() will allow you to move a folder/file (and rename it)

 

No more "Don't know how's now" (10's of thousands of examples of all)

[Deye]

First you will need to register a context menu to right click with something like this

 

;--------------------------------------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\mv]
@="Move to dedicated folder"


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\mv\command]
@="pathto\\my.exe %1"
;-------------------------------------------

1. then in the begining of your script $CmdLine[1] will be the full path of the file name you want to control

 

]If $cmdline[0] > 0 Then
$file2move=$CmdLine[1]
EndIf

2. compile the script to "my.exe" place it in "pathto=the location it will be"

3. test it out

[kcvinu]

Hi 

SmOke_N, Thank you. Let me try..

[kcvinu]

Hi 

Deye, Thank you. Let me try...