Create Folder

Location on ribbon: Tab DVD Addin → Group File and Print → Menu File Tools

Command ID: btnCreateFolder

License required

This command needs an active DVDAddin account (Standard or PRO). It is fully available during the Trial period.

What it does

Reads the folder names you typed on the sheet and creates that entire folder tree for real under a parent directory you pick. There is no depth limit — as many data columns as the sheet uses, that many nesting levels get created.

It is the fastest way to lay down the document skeleton at project kick-off: 01_Legal, 02_IFC_Drawings, 03_Inspection and dozens of sub-folders per discipline, instead of right-click → New folder for an hour.

How to use

1. On the sheet, type the folder names from row 2 downwards. Two layouts both work:
   • Flat: column A = level 1, column B = level 2, column C = level 3, and so on.
   • Indented: one name per row, pushed right with Tab according to its depth.
2. Go to tab DVD Addin → group File and Print → menu File Tools → click Create Folder.
3. The "Pick parent folder" browser opens → choose the root directory → OK.
4. The command writes the root path into cell A1, then walks each row: an empty cell means "keep the level from the previous row", so you never have to repeat parent names.
5. While it runs, hold ESC to stop early; folders already created are kept.
6. A toast reports "Created N folders." (plus the number of failed rows, if any).

If the sheet has no data from row 2 down, the command inserts a small sample layout into A2:E5 so you can see the expected shape, then stops — edit the names for your project and run it again.

Example

Building the document skeleton for a package. Type on the sheet:

A	B	C
Project A	01_IFC	Architectural
		Structural
	02_PM_Records	SiteOffice
	03_Site_Diary	Month_05

Pick D:\Records as parent, run the command, and you get D:\Records\Project A\01_IFC\Architectural, …\Structural, D:\Records\Project A\02_PM_Records\SiteOffice, D:\Records\Project A\03_Site_Diary\Month_05.

Notes

• Cell A1 is overwritten with the parent path — do not keep anything important there.
• Characters Windows forbids in folder names (< > : " / \ | ? *) are stripped automatically; what remains becomes the folder name.
• Existing folders are skipped without error and their contents are untouched, so re-running the command is safe.
• A failing row (invalid name, no write permission) only increments the "failed rows" count; the rest of the batch keeps going.
• There is no undo: folders that were created must be deleted manually in Windows Explorer.
• Accented Vietnamese names create accented folders; run UnDiacritics Folder afterwards if you need plain ASCII names.

Related

• Folder Tree — the reverse direction: read an existing tree into a sheet.
• UnDiacritics Folder — strip Vietnamese accents from the tree you just created.
• File Tree — verify the structure once documents have been filed into it.
• Rename Files — batch-rename documents before moving them into the new folders.