Move files older than X days in a subfolder structure

Kurratot 1

I have a folder structure like this

Firm1
Firm2
Firm3
.....
Firm 256

In each folder there are two subfolders:
Serverlogging
ReportResults

What I want to do is to find all files ( .) for each firm older than X days.

These files should be moved to
//archive/Firm1/Serverlogging
//archive/Firm1/ReportResults
//archive/Firm2/Serverlogging
//archive/Firm2/ReportResults

..and so on.

Ravi Kanth Koppala 3,231 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2022-02-09T16:28:55.82+00:00

@Kurratot ,
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Ravi Kanth Koppala 3,231 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2022-02-07T17:32:48.333+00:00
@Kurratot ,
Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Q&A platform. Happy to answer your question.

We can do such automation using PowerShell and here is the script which moves all files from the current folder to another folder that are created 7 days back.

$files = Get-ChildItem -File | Where-Object {$_.CreationTime -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-7)} foreach ($f in $files){ Move-Item -Path $f -Destination .\Temp\$f }

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Ravi Kanth Koppala 3,231 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2022-02-08T17:57:14.227+00:00

@Kurratot ,
Please "Accept as Answer" and Upvote if any of the above helped so that, it can help others in the community looking for remediation for similar issues.

Suresh Palla 0 Reputation points

2023-05-31T13:34:02.6+00:00

A small correction to the code above to move files.

$srcpath = "C:\temp"

$destpath = "C:\temp\archive"

$files = Get-ChildItem -Path $srchpath -File | Where-Object {$_.CreationTime -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-7)}

foreach ($f in $files){

Move-Item -Path $f.FullName -Destination $destpath

}

Scott McLaughlin 0 Reputation points

2023-12-06T14:45:47.85+00:00

I had to make a couple of changes to Suesh's code but it worked for me. Change the gt to lt because otherwise it moved the newer ones instead of the older ones and in the path qualifier you have $srchpath instead of $srcpath as it is declared earlier. Thanks for saving me time, Suresh!
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