I have about 2000 font files, but each family is contained in its own
subfolder, so I have about 500 subfolders.

I would like to find an application to collapse all these subfolders
into one, so I can easily import them into my font management
application by choosing the folder.  (It does not handle searching in
folders)

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Clarification of Question by andywalldesign-ga on 21 Sep 2006 10:05 PDT

The application should be freeware or shareware, I only need to use this one time.

Alternatively, if someone knows how to write some kind of script to do
this and wants to tell me, and it works, that will be good too.

Hi andywalldesign-ga,

   I have written a quick VBScript to copy all the files from a source
folder (and its subfolders) to a destination folder. Note that if a
file with the same name exists in the destination folder, it will be
overwritten.
   The vbscript code to do this follows below. Copy and paste this
code into a text file, and rename it 'copyall.vbs'.

====================== contents of 'copyall.vbs' ====================
Dim objFSO

'Read in the command line arguments
Set ArgObj = WScript.Arguments
 searchInFolder = ArgObj(0)
 copyToFolder = ArgObj(1)

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

' Copy all files in the root folder
CopyFolder(searchInFolder)




Sub CopyFolder(strFolderName)
   Set rootFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(strFolderName)
   
   Set fileCollection = rootFolder.Files
   WScript.echo(" Looking inside folder '" +rootFolder.path+"' for
files to copy...")
   For Each file in fileCollection
     WScript.echo("    Copying '" +file.Name+"' to "+copyToFolder)
     objFSO.CopyFile strFolderName+"\*" , copyToFolder, true
    Next
   
   Set SubFolders = rootFolder.SubFolders
   For Each Folder In SubFolders
      ' Copy all files in this subfolder
      CopyFolder(Folder.Path)
   Next
   
End Sub

Set objFSO = Nothing
==================== end contents of 'copyall.vbs' ====================

You can also download this vbs file from here:
http://rapidshare.de/files/33945473/copyall.vbs.html

To execute this file, follow these steps:
   - In the StartMenu > Run dialog, type 
                  cmd
     and press enter. This will start the command prompt.
   - At the command prompt, go to the folder in which you have kept 'copyall.vbs'
   - Now type the following:
       cscript copyall.vbs <source folder> <destination folder>
     For eg.:
       cscript copyall.vbs C:\myfonts\  D:\allfonts
     This will copy all the files in the myfonts folder and its
subfolder, into the allfonts folder.

Hope this helps!
If you need any clarification or help in getting the script to run
properly, just ask!

Regards,
Theta-ga
:)

Right click on the font folder (the main folder, not the subfolder),
then "search" for filename "*.ttf" and cut the entire results and
paste it into the main font folder (or wherver you want it)

Repeat this with the search term "*.fon"

That should be all of your fonts.