Question Best approach to complex (directory/folder/subfolder) merge operation?

[Dri]

Hello, hope this is the right place for this query.

I have an external drive for photos that has accumulated multiple copies of the same directories/folders/subfolders. I want merge all of them into a single version before (or after) I eliminate all the duplicate files contained in them (probably using czakawka).


A additional complication is that the folders and subfolders are not necessarily at the same level (for instance, I might have D:\HP\Pictures\2022 and also D:\Asus\Pictures and Videos\Pictures\2022).

Can anyone suggest an easy process or app to merge these directories/folders/subfolders so that e.g. the two folders above are merged rather than duplicated, even though they are at different levels?

Thanks so much.

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

suggest an easy process or app to merge these

find the individual folders where the actual images are stored.

start cutting & pasting all images from one of these folders to the next
overwriting/replacing all duplicates.

when eventually you are down to the last folder,
cut & paste this folder(or just it's contents) to the location you want to keep these images.

then delete all empty / unused folders.

you can later go through and determine if there are duplicates with different filenames and just erase those unneeded.