Is there a way to move multiple files until other folders faster

Question

My family has a camera security system and we use a code that downloads all of our videos and puts them into their respective folders. The videos aren't separated into folders for their specific dates. We haven't moved the files to their dated folders in over a month and it is taking too much time. I was able to find a code a few months ago to help change files names by selecting what I wanted to be replaced and with what I wanted to be replaced with. I would like to do something similar like finding all videos that have "08_27" and moving them to a folder that is dated for the 27th without having to go back and forth between folders to move them. I am using Microsoft Powershell. Please, anything would help.

Answer 1

Hi，

Does this work for you?

$SrcPath = "C:\source"  
$DestPath = "C:\destination"   
$Date = "08_27"    
Set-Location $SrcPath  
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path "$DestPath\$Date" -force   
Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -File -Recurse -Name *$Date* | Move-Item -Destination "$DestPath\$Date" -force  

Best Regards，
Ian

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Answer 2

Maybe not exactly what you want, but try this:

Get-ChildItem X:\folder\*98_27* -File |
    ForEach-Object{
        Move-Item $_.FullName -Destination "X:\new-directory\$($_.Name)"
    }

Try it with "test" directories and only a few files to verify it does the correct thing!