Help!

I work for a huge corporate - think... Office SPACE.

I just TRANSFERRED to the Marketing department where they have tasked me with going through 500+ folders with folders inside of these folders and organizing them by product line and type of document i.e. flyer, brochure, advertisement etc.... My estimate is there is over a 1,000 files

The whole SHARED server is an absolute mess.

I am using the ctrl + F to do a blanket search and am finding duplicates of file extension names.

It is a mixture of files pdf.'s, word, POWER point. Nothing is named in a UNIFORMED manner.

Can you give ideas on how to attack this project... what is the best way to get my arms around all the information?

Any ideas/ strategy or programs that are useful for managing folders would be great.

The end goal is to have everything organized into folders on a shared server and keep it organized.


Can you run batch files?



If you're not sure, open notepad, type 'MKDIR test' (without quotes) and save as TEST.BAT (making sure the 'Save as type:' box shows 'All Files', not text doc).  Then locate it and double-click.  If a black window opens and closes, and a folder named 'test' is created, then you can run batch files.  If not, I can't help you.To search for duplicates, I think this could be very helpful: http://www.easyduplicatefinder.com/.  For a review on it, see http://www.easyduplicatefinder.com/softpedia-review.html

Regarding an overall strategy, this article might be helpful: 8 tips to manage your files better, and this: 10 File Management Tips