How to save multiple images in the same folder?

hello, I have several images that are saved in different folders and I want to arrange theses images in a single folder. please, any suggestion of matlab code? thanks in advances

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Perhaps use my demo. In the middle of the loop is where you would stick a call to copyfile() or movefile().

[Sahar abdalah]

thank you very much

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/20814-recursive-directory-function-execution

The function you supply would movefile()

Watch out for duplicate file names! Watch out for bugs while you get the code working...

If I were developing the code, I would refrain from moving the files unless I had good reason. I would either copy the files or I would create links to the files.

[Sahar abdalah]

thank you for your reply, but I am new in matlab and I did not understand the importance of this link in the resolution of my problem. simply, I have images with different names and are stored in multiple folders, my goal is to copy all images in a single folder. I have a folder: flowers that contain 12 others folders (category 1, category 2, ......, category 12). and each folder contain a list of images corresponding to the category of flowers. my goal is to save these images in a new folder called flowerCategory. Any idea please for matlab code?

[Walter Roberson]

sourcedir = fullfile(pwd, 'flowers');
destdir = fullfile(pwd, 'flowerCategory');

if ~exist(destdir,'dir')
  [success, message, messageid] = mkdir(destdir);
  if ~success
    error(messageid, sprintf('Failed to create directory "%s" because "%s"', destdir, message) );
  end
end

%find the potential source directories
dinfo = dir( fullfile(sourcedir, 'category*') );
%remove everything that is not a directory
dinfo(~[dinfo.isdir]) = [];

for J = 1 : length(dinfo)   %for each source directory
  thisdir = fullfile(sourcedir, dinfo(J).name);
  %find potential files in directory
  finfo = dir( thisdir );
  %get rid of the things that are not files
  finfo([finfo.isdir]) = [];
  for K = 1 : length(finfo)   %for each file in directory
    thisfile = fullfile(thisdir, finfo(K).name );
    %make a copy of it
    copyfile(thisfile, destdir);
  end
end