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Script to Move Folders on Network Drive

I need to be able to move (not copy) over a thousand folders and their contents to another network location with a script.

Right now, the folders are set up like this:

H:\Legal\Location\00001\Binder
H:\Legal\Location\00002\Binder
H:\Legal\Location\00033\Binder
and so on...

I need to be able to move each Binder folder and its contents to a new location on the network, so that the new folder structure will look like this:
H:\Location\00001\Binder
H:\Location\00002\Binder
H:\Location\00033\Binder
and so on.

I need to leave the original folder structure and files intact, only moving the Binder folder to a new location.

Any assistance would be much appreciated! Thank you!

knightEknight

H:
md H:\Location

move "H:\Legal\Location\00001\Binder" "H:\Location"
move "H:\Legal\Location\00002\Binder" "H:\Location"
move "H:\Legal\Location\00033\Binder" "H:\Location"

knightEknight

oops, never mind that - I see the error of my ways.
Stand by ...

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ASKER

The source folders that are numerical will change and there is no pattern to them. I need to have a wildcard entry for those, and also keep the same numerical folder names in the destination directory.

knightEknight

H:
MD H:\Location >nul

CD H:\Legal\Location

for /d %%D in (*) do (
md "H:\Location\%%D\Binder"
pushd "%%D\Binder"
xcopy/e * "H:\Location\%%D\Binder"
del/s/q *
popd
)

sjklein42

Put in a batch file and execute:

REM moveFilesAndFolders.bat

cd /d h:\legal\Location\
for /d %%i in (*) do call :moveOneFolder %%i
goto:EOF

:moveOneFolder
mkdir h:\Location\%1\Binder
cd h:\legal\Location\%1\Binder\
for %%j in (*) do move /-Y %%j h:\Location\%1\Binder\
cd h:\legal\Location\
goto:EOF

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ASKER

Thank you for your responses - knightEknight, I would rather not use xcopy, and instead use 'move' because of the large amounts of data that we are working with on the network.

sjklein42: This is almost perfect - but I also need to move the contents of the Binder folder to the new location and remove the Binder folder and its contents from the old location.

Thank you again!

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sjklein42

It should already be moving the contents of the Binder folder. I added the rmdir line to delete the old Binder folder after contents have been moved.

REM moveFilesAndFolders.bat

cd /d h:\legal\Location\
for /d %%i in (*) do call :moveOneFolder %%i
move 
goto:EOF

:moveOneFolder
mkdir h:\Location\%1\Binder
cd h:\legal\Location\%1\Binder\
for %%j in (*) do move /-Y %%j h:\Location\%1\Binder\
cd h:\legal\Location\
rmdir h:\legal\Location\%1\Binder\
goto:EOF

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ASKER

knightEknight - thank you, that worked perfectly!

sjklein42 - for some reason, that script did not copy the contents of the Binder folder down.

Thank you both so much!

Russell_Venable

@sjklein42: Your script does not switch to the H: drive. You forgot to change the drive letter after "cd" to just H: then simply "CD" after the fact.

sjklein42

Russell_Venable,

I think the /D on cd causes it to switch drives as well as folders.

Cheers.

Russell_Venable

I guess so cheers!