Way to extract documents from multiple folders at once?

Ive got about 200 separate client folders, each containing roughly 2-4 documents in each.
I would like to extract all the individual documents and put them into one, solitary folder.

Any way to do this other than clicking on each and every client folder and removing its respective contents?

 

search from the root folder, select your docs from the search results.

 

Try using ' Search for Files and Folders'. As the location to be searched, select the top level directory which contains all the client folders. Enter *.* as the file name to search for. It should list every file within the folders. Highlight everything, then copy and paste into another directory.

 

Ah, the beauty of Windows Search results windows.

 

Forgive me, but im not sure I understand what you are saying here.

Where do I find the "search companion dialogue box"?

Just to clarify: i have one folder called "Clients". Within that folder are 200+ individually named client folders and, within each one of those folders are either Word or PDF docs.

Thanks for the help.

 

Select your client folder in Explorer.

Hit F3

It will move your cursor to the top right box.

Type
*.* NOT kind:folder

 

Learn powershell scripting.

Search for "powershell". If you're using windows 7 then it's already installed

 

For such a simple operation, powershell isn't needed.

 

WOW, incredible; exactly what I wanted.

Thanks!

 

Since you have a lot of files at once, it may or may not show all of them at once depending on the speed of your machine.