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I need to move some Folders

Hi,

How can I all at once move the folders (+ files in the folders) in the "From" folder, to the "To" folder.

02 is the month
2014 is the year
These values will change every month and year.

I am open to any technology/method, and a commercial solution is OK. - Any suggestions would be grateful!!

From: W:\WOW HITS - 02-2014
To: W:\Vid\WOW HITS\WOW HITS 2014\

From: W:\HOT MOVIE CLASSICS - 02-2014
To: W:\Vid\HOT MOVIE CLASSICS\HOT MOVIE CLASSICS 2014\

From: W:\AMBIENT VIDEO 02-14
To: W:\Vid\AMBIENT VIDEO\AMBIENT VIDEO 2014\

Bill Prew

Do you want to specify the current month and year as a parameter, or let the script pick up the current system date?

~bp

Bill Prew

And, was this a typo or does this one really only use a two digit year?

From: W:\AMBIENT VIDEO 02-14

or should it match the others like:

From: W:\AMBIENT VIDEO - 02-2014

~bp

Computer Guy

ASKER

Haha. Typo. Year is suppose to be 4 digits and month 2. Good eye!!

Bill Prew

Okay, here is a starting point assuming a typo in the examples, and assuming you hard code the month and year into the script. This can easily be adjusted to either take them as a command line parameter, or get them from the current date, or maybe a combo.

Save as a BAT file, adjust the paths as needed, and do some testing...

@echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion

set MM=02
set YYYY=2014

REM Define folder locations (no trailing "\")
REM set BaseDir=W:
REM set DestDir=W:\Vid
set Folders="WOW HITS","HOT MOVIE CLASSICS","AMBIENT VIDEO"

REM Process each folder name to process
for %%A in (%Folders%) do (
  REM If the source folder doesn't exist (with month and year added) report as error
  if not exist "%BaseDir%\%%~A - %MM%-%YYYY%\" (
    echo *WARNING* Folder [%BaseDir%\%%~A - %MM%-%YYYY%] does not exist, skipped.
  ) else (
    REM If dest folder does not exist (with year added) create it
    if not exist "%DestDir%\%%~A\%%~A %YYYY%\" (
      md "%DestDir%\%%~A\%%~A %YYYY%\"
    )
  REM Move entire source folder to dest folder
  move "%BaseDir%\%%~A - %MM%-%YYYY%" "%DestDir%\%%~A\%%~A %YYYY%\" > NUL
  )
)

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~bp

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