Automate move contents of a folder and timestamp folder name every day?

[Guest]

Hi all,

 

Just wondered if anyone know of a free program that can do this.

 

I just want my PC to automatically move the contents of a folder to a new folder once a day, and I want the new generated folder to have today's date.

 

Not sure what would happen if I'm currently using the said files at the time this is done... maybe it would need to run at shutdown rather than daily at a set time?

 

Thanks for any suggestions either way.

[Sulphy]

You can use powershell, and set it on a schedule maybe??

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34711612/how-do-i-make-a-folder-with-todays-date-and-then-copy-a-file-to-it

May need to tweak the ps script a bit for folder contents...

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Yeah, that’s a 5 minute PowerShell script and schedule it with task scheduler.

 

Powershell is damned easy to learn, have a crack at it 🙂

[waysidesc]

  On 14/06/2020 at 07:50, cacoe said:

Hi all,

 

Just wondered if anyone know of a free program that can do this.

 

I just want my PC to automatically move the contents of a folder to a new folder once a day, and I want the new generated folder to have today's date.

 

Not sure what would happen if I'm currently using the said files at the time this is done... maybe it would need to run at shutdown rather than daily at a set time?

 

Thanks for any suggestions either way.

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it would be really cool to have something that could look at metadata and automatically populate the folder with those files when new files arrive.

 

if a photo from ( or even of ) x arrives, then move it to y folder.

 

like Outlook.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

ROBOCOPY should be able to do what you want as well; it's rather robust. It can work on manually ran, it can work off a schedule, and it can monitor and move files live as they are added or change in the monitored directory.

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/robocopy