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This tutorial will teach you how to move or copy files efficiently using FileForge. You will learn to organize your files into specific folders based on prompts for better data organization.

To start, make sure you're on the organize tab. From there, select the move or copy files function. This function allows you to provide specific instructions for how you want your files to be moved or copied. In this example, we'll start with a simple use case where I want to organize my files by file type. So I'll say, please organize my files into folders based on images and PDFs.

Now before we run this prompt, let's take a look at the example data that we have within this folder. I'll click on the folder in the top right and then open up that folder. We can see that this specific folder has roughly 10 different files within it and it contains various different JPEG files as well as different PDF files. So after we run this, the expectation is that these will now be grouped into specific folders based on images and PDFs. We'll close out this window and return back to our prompt, and we'll go ahead and run this.

Similar to any other FileForge function, before the system runs the action, it will provide a preview of what it's going to do. So let's take a quick look at this. It's saying our proposed subfolders are images and PDFs. That's exactly what I want, and I'll go ahead and proceed with that action. The system will work through those 10 files.

And at the end of that process, it provides me with the summary. Here it says it ended up moving 10 of my files and creating two subfolders within the existing working folder that I'm in. Six of those files were PDFs moved into a PDF folder, and then four of those files or images moved into an image folder.

Let's go ahead and do a final review of how that image in PDF organization works. So we can see now that we have two folders that match our description of what we wanted to happen.

If we open up our images folder, we can confirm that it now contains all of our JPEGs.

And if we open up our PDFs folder, we can confirm that that now contains all of our PDFs.

You have successfully moved and copied files by organizing them into folders based on file types.