Reorganize folders by year after imported

Hello,
I just recently transferred 1000's of my photos to light room. Unfortunately I forgot to group all of the folders by an overarching year, so I have hundreds of folders with individual dates from each import (ex. 20010324). What I would really like is to have all photos in a corresponding year folder, and then within the date import folder (ex. 2001 > 20010324).
The only way I have found to change this is to create the year folder and drag each date import folder into that, but I cannot drag a whole group of folders, only one at a time... I am thinking that there must be an easier way that I have simply overlooked...
Can some one please point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
Andy

One way to do it, if you haven't done much work on your photos would be to reorganize them the way you want them, outside of LR. Make sure your folder structure is just as you want it. Restart LR, ignore all the error messages and files not found, etc. Create a new catalog, and then reimport from your top level folder. Be sure to check the option to import in place.
If you file structure was Photo Masters/year/whatever you would only have to reimport the Photo Masters Folders, the folder structure will follow.
If you've done work on your photos, be sure to write the data to the XMP files of the photos you've worked on, that way when they reimport, you'll have all your work.
Since you're importing the photos in place, this should go pretty fast.

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