Task Scheduler - how to move specific files to another location?

Question

Hi,

I would like to automatically move files from my Download folder to a specific folder. They are Excel items that I download and the names only differ in the date in the name. For example:

Dummy holdings 20211222.xlsx

Dummy holdings 20211221.xlsx

Dummy holdings 20211220.xlsx

So the name at the beginning is always the same but the date changes it.

I have other stuff in that folder that I don't want to move.

I know you can use a program like Task Scheduler but I don't know how to modified the scripts available online that lets me target specific files.

@Echo off

set X=7

set "source=C:\someone\Downloads"

set "destination=C:\Temp\Copy

robocopy "%source%" "%destination%" /mov /minage:%X%

exit /b

Is there a way to do this please?

Thank you

S2

Answer 1

You can most certainly do what your asking with powershell as I do very similar myself using task scheduler. I’m not at my Pc can’t provide code but if you take a look at examples online searching for:

Get-Childitem filename filer

And

Move-Item

You should be able to do something like:

Get-childitem -path c:\someone\download -filter “ Dummy holdings*.xlsx” | Move-Item -Destination “c:\temp\copy\” -force

Answer 2

Hello Sonny

Thank you for your question and reaching out.

I can understand you want to move files using command from one folder to another.

I would suggest you can use below simple move command which should be serve your purpose.

move "C:\data\Dummy holdings*.xls" D:\Backup\

Hope this answers your question :)

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Answer 3

If you're going to run it via the task scheduler, you will want to have it create a transcript so that you can see what it did and any errors that it might encounter.

Start-Transcript -Path ("C:\temp\{0}-{1}-FileMover.txt" -f $env:USERNAME, (get-date -format "yyyyMMdd-HHmmss" ))            # This is your log file 
$files = Get-ChildItem -Path 'c:\someone\downloads' -file -filter 'Dummy*'
"Moving these files."
($files).Name 
$files | Move-Item -Destination 'C:\temp\copy' 
Stop-Transcript