Moving Rules

Important Notes

Important note 1: The text is case sensitive.

Important note 2: Use the "/" character to separate folders.

Writing Regex: The best tool for writing regex is Regex101 (https://regex101.com/)

Examples without Regex

Lets imagine you have three files called Scroll 1, Scroll 2 and Scroll 3. Such as you can see below:

After you install the plugin, you can create a rule to move all files that start with "Scroll" to the "Scrolls" folder. The rule would look like this:

This will then create a folder called "Scrolls" and move all files that start with "Scroll" to that folder. The end result will look like this:

Example with Regex and Groups

Important note: The regex flavor used in this plugin is the ECMAScript(Javascript) flavor. The biggest difference between ECMAScript and PCRE2 is that {} brackets require the first value to be something ({0,1} -> zero or one of), while in PCRE2 it can be empty ({,1} -> zero or one of).

Imagine that you wanted to sort each scroll by its number into a separate folder. You could use the following regex to achieve that:

This will then create a folder for each scroll number and move the respective files to the correct folder. The end result will look like this:

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