Solved Batch File to find files in listed .txt file, move to folder

Kilavila May 15, 2020 at 10:58:12

does this list of filenames have the full path as well like: E:\Photos\Sub-Folder\File.ext or is it just "File.ext"?

No folder names. Simply the filename.

Kilavila May 15, 2020 at 13:34:57

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Got this ugly powershell script you can give a try.. The logging is really bad, but it works tho, it will copy the files if the names match. $PSScriptRoot is the folder the script is located in, so the log.txt will be in the same folder as the script. Only have to change the paths with "E:\" in them if needed Let me know how it goes if you test it # Script below Start-Transcript -Path $PSScriptRoot\log.txt -Append -Force -NoClobber foreach ($Line in (Get-Content -Path "E:\familymovies.txt")) { $File = Get-ChildItem -Path "E:\Photos" -Filter "*$Line*" -Recurse $Path = $File.FullName $Test = Test-Path $Path if ($Test -eq $True) { Move-Item -Path $Path -Destination "E:\Photos\Family-Movies" -Force Write-Host "Moved file: $Path" } else { Write-Host "Not found: $Line" } } Stop-Transcript Pause message edited by Kilavila

Kilavila May 15, 2020 at 14:39:15

If you just want to move all video files from these folders to that new folder there is a better way tho: $Folder = Get-ChildItem "E:\Photos" -Recurse New-Item "E:\log.txt" foreach ($i in $Folder){ if ($i.Extension -eq '.avi' -or $i.Extension -eq '.mp4' -or $i.Extension -eq '.mov'){ $File = $i.FullName Move-Item -Path $File -Destination "E:\Photos\Family-Movies" Add-Content -Path "E:\log.txt" -Value "Copied file: $File to: E:\Photos\Family-Movies" } } This will move all .avi, .mp4 and .mov files from E:\Photos to E:\Photos\Family-Movies

Is this a batch file? It doesn't run. message edited by GregSch

Kilavila May 15, 2020 at 15:23:23

oh, no its powershell. save it as .ps1 and run file with powershell.exe Edit: You can also run powershell, then drag and drop the script into powershell and press enter. message edited by Kilavila

Can this batch file be modified to work? @echo off & setlocal enabledelayedexpansion type nul>e:\photos\log.txt set log=e:\photos\log.txt set list=familymovies.txt set cnt=0 set number=0 for /f "delims=" %%a in ('type %list%') do ( set /A cnt +=1 set file!cnt!=%%a ) E: cd E:\Photos :LOOP if %number%==%cnt% exit /b set /A number +=1 dir /s !file%number%! || echo.!file%number%!>> e:\photos\log.txt Goto :LOOP

Kilavila May 16, 2020 at 02:38:23

You can use batch, but i just know the basics tho as im not using batch scripts myself.

Thank you sooo much. I've installed Powershell and going to try.