It’s not uncommon for me to have to tidy up directories full of files by moving them to their own subfolders, named for each file. It’s become common enough that I wrote a little Powershell function to do it repeatedly.

After saving the below script as a .psm1 file you’ll be able to open PS and import the file. I tend to save it to “C:\Scripts\MoveToSubfolders.psm1” – then I can open PS and run “Import-Module C:\Scripts\MoveToSubfolders.psm1”.

Once it’s been imported I can then use the function on whatever folder of files I need to tidy by simply running “MoveToSubfolders” and following the function with the folder I need to sort. It works well for making movies tidier.1`

function MoveToSubfolders([string]$Folder = ".\" ){
# Convert relative folder paths to full paths
$FullPath = Resolve-Path $Folder

# Generate list of all files in the specified directory.
$Files = Get-ChildItem -Path ((Get-Item -Path $FullPath -Verbose).FullName)

# For each object in the directory, do the following:
$Files | ForEach-Object {
    # Generate the variables 
    $FileName = $_.FullName
    $FileFolderName = $_.BaseName
    $DestinationFolder = "$FullPath\$FileFolderName"
    $MoveDestination = "$DestinationFolder\$($_.Name)"

    # Check if the destination directory exists
    if(!(Test-Path $DestinationFolder))
    {
        # Create the directory using FileName (minus file extension) if it does not exist
        New-Item -Path $DestinationFolder -ItemType Directory
    }
    # Move the file to the new directory
    Move-Item -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue $FileName $MoveDestination
}
}
# Actually allow this module to have functions used outside via import
Export-ModuleMember -Function *
Export-ModuleMember -Variable *