Move files folder by folder with bat file

zelarra821 · Saturday at 6:04 AM

Good morning.

I'm trying to create a bat file that copies files from different folders.

I've tried this code but I can't get it to work:

Code:

@echo off

::Mover audios

move /Y D:\Bandeja de entrada\000 Móvil\Audios\*.* D:\Bandeja de entrada\Audios

::Mover Documentos

move /Y D:\Bandeja de entrada\000 Móvil\Documentos\*.* D:\Bandeja de entrada\Documentos

::Mover Imágenes

move /Y D:\Bandeja de entrada\000 Móvil\Imágenes\*.* D:\Bandeja de entrada\Imágenes

::Mover Vídeos

move /Y D:\Bandeja de entrada\000 Móvil\Vídeos\*.* D:\Bandeja de entrada\Vídeos

::Mover ZZZ Comprobar

move /Y D:\Bandeja de entrada\000 Móvil\ZZZ Comprobar\*.* D:\Bandeja de entrada\ZZZ Comprobar

I've also been looking for a way to stop the command window from showing.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you very much.

pseymour · Saturday at 6:18 AM

At first glance, your folder paths have spaces in them. You need to wrap them in double quotes.

“D:\Bandeja de entrada\000 Móvil\Vídeos\*.*”

“D:\Bandeja de entrada\Vídeos”

zelarra821 · Saturday at 6:34 AM

pseymour said:
At first glance, your folder paths have spaces in them. You need to wrap them in double quotes.

“D:\Bandeja de entrada\000 Móvil\Vídeos\*.*”

“D:\Bandeja de entrada\Vídeos”

System can find path that I write in bat file

hsehestedt · Saturday at 7:03 AM

Let's start with basics. Open a command prompt and run the following commands. Provide a copy of the output:

D:
cd "D:\Bandeja de entrada\000 Móvil\Audios"
cd "D:\Bandeja de entrada\Audios"

If either of the commands starting with "cd" fail then that path is not valid.

IMPORTANT: If you use the lines provided by @pseymour by copying and pasting them, make sure to ERASE the double quote marks and retype them. As shown in his post, these are "smart quotes" and need to be replaced with "straight quotes". Batch files hate smart quotes!

Example of a smart quote: “D:\Bandeja de entrada\Vídeos”
Now with straight quotes: "D:\Bandeja de entrada\Vídeos"

The visible difference here in the forum is minimal, but they are in fact different characters. Here is a better example where it is more obvious in Notepad:

Berton · Saturday at 10:04 AM

This may be of small interest in naming of files, prohibited characters:

zelarra821 · Saturday at 12:36 PM

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hsehestedt · Saturday at 2:18 PM

DO NOT edit batch files in Word!!! Word adds special formatting characters that are not visible. Use Notepad, Notepad++, etc.

Don't copy from Word into Notepad. Retype the commands from scratch.

zelarra821 · Saturday at 2:22 PM

hsehestedt said:
DO NOT edit batch files in Word!!! Word adds special formatting characters that are not visible. Use Notepad, Notepad++, etc.

Don't copy from Word into Notepad. Retype the commands from scratch.

I write all in Notepad. I only use Word to show quotes

hsehestedt · Saturday at 2:31 PM

What happens if you manually type one of those lines? Just to be safe, type it from scratch - no copy / paste.

zelarra821 · Saturday at 4:03 PM

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dacrone · Saturday at 4:53 PM

try it with PowerShell and see if it works. just to narrow down testing

Code:

Move-Item -Path "D:\Bandeja de entrada\000 Móvil\Audios\*.*" -Destination "D:\Bandeja de entrada\Audios"

(also - not sure as i dont have the same language keyboard as you, but possibly take the ó in Móvil and change it to o to avoid any character issues/conflicts?)

Berton · Saturday at 5:15 PM

hsehestedt said:
DO NOT edit batch files in Word!!! Word adds special formatting characters that are not visible. Use Notepad, Notepad++, etc.

Don't copy from Word into Notepad. Retype the commands from scratch.

Agreed. That was a standard caveat back in DOS days when writing programs and early HTML coding.

zelarra821 · Saturday at 5:34 PM

dacrone said:
try it with PowerShell and see if it works. just to narrow down testing

Code:

Move-Item -Path "D:\Bandeja de entrada\000 Móvil\Audios\*.*" -Destination "D:\Bandeja de entrada\Audios"

(also - not sure as i dont have the same language keyboard as you, but possibly take the ó in Móvil and change it to o to avoid any character issues/conflicts?)

It works.

So, how should I create a new file to execute that powershell script?

dacrone · Saturday at 5:39 PM

zelarra821 said:
It works.

So, how should I create a new file to execute that powershell script?

use this template:

Code:

<# :
  @echo off
    powershell /nologo /noprofile /command ^
        "&{[ScriptBlock]::Create((cat """%~f0""") -join [Char[]]10).Invoke(@(&{$args}%*))}"
  exit /b
#>

# POWERSHELL_COMMANDS_HERE

zelarra821 · Saturday at 5:56 PM

dacrone said:

use this template:

Code:

<# :
  @echo off
    powershell /nologo /noprofile /command ^
        "&{[ScriptBlock]::Create((cat """%~f0""") -join [Char[]]10).Invoke(@(&{$args}%*))}"
  exit /b
#>

# POWERSHELL_COMMANDS_HERE

I think I'm doing something wrong...

dacrone · Saturday at 6:27 PM

run it as admin and see what happens. depends on the perms set on that D: drive. i know you cant run commands directly in the root of C: without admin cmd

zelarra821 · Saturday at 6:35 PM

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dacrone · Saturday at 6:45 PM

zelarra821 said:
It works.

so then what worked?

zelarra821 · Saturday at 6:47 PM

dacrone said:
so then what worked?

Execute in powershell window.

Bat files doesn't work

dacrone · Saturday at 6:58 PM

zelarra821 said:
Execute in powershell window.

Bat files doesn't work

just ran the below and it worked. had a "test.txt" inside test and it moved it inside test2. non-admin. has to be a perms issue on your D: drive

Code:

<# :
  @echo off
    powershell /nologo /noprofile /command ^
        "&{[ScriptBlock]::Create((cat """%~f0""") -join [Char[]]10).Invoke(@(&{$args}%*))}"
  exit /b
#>

Move-Item -Path "C:\Users\ME\Desktop\test\*.*" -Destination "C:\Users\ME\Desktop\test2\"

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