MRT renaming "deep" paths

[buyerbruce]

Hello forum,

Firstly: I'm a newbie to this forum but a big fan and long-time home IT user of TC!
I am sorting photos and videos on my NAS at the moment, and can't find the answer to my question elsewhere on the forum or wiki or help:

When moving files between folders of the same server (my NAS) it seem to be copying+deleting instead of just renaming. I figured the problem was related to mapping drive letters, but even when using absolute paths ("\\server\folders...") it still seems to be copying instead of renaming. So I figured I would save a bunch of time if I forced the rename using the wonderful MRT in TC. However I cannot figure out how to use the rename masks or search+replace fields properly.

For example I have files here:
\\server\folder1\folder2\folder3\folder4\
and I want to move them here:
\\server\folder1\folder5\folder6\

I tried using the standard rename mask ("[N]") and renaming the path with the search+replace fields, but it seems MRT renames files based on the current directory, so that just added the new path to the existing path!

Can anyone help me with this? Am I missing an easy solution or am I abusing the MRT functionality?

Thanks in advance!
Bruce

[sqa_wizard]

Moving a file by MRT is possible by using a relative path notation.

To move files from
\\server\folder1\folder2\folder3\folder4\
to
\\server\folder1\folder5\folder6\

just use

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..\..\..\folder5\folder6\[N]

[buyerbruce]

Thanks for the quick reply!
So there's no way to replace the path as a string?