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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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`<\/p>\n\n\n\n
function MoveToSubfolders([string]$Folder = \".\\\" ){\n# Convert relative folder paths to full paths\n$FullPath = Resolve-Path $Folder\n\n# Generate list of all files in the specified directory.\n$Files = Get-ChildItem -Path ((Get-Item -Path $FullPath -Verbose).FullName)\n\n# For each object in the directory, do the following:\n$Files | ForEach-Object {\n # Generate the variables \n $FileName = $_.FullName\n $FileFolderName = $_.BaseName\n $DestinationFolder = \"$FullPath\\$FileFolderName\"\n $MoveDestination = \"$DestinationFolder\\$($_.Name)\"\n\n # Check if the destination directory exists\n if(!(Test-Path $DestinationFolder))\n {\n # Create the directory using FileName (minus file extension) if it does not exist\n New-Item -Path $DestinationFolder -ItemType Directory\n }\n # Move the file to the new directory\n Move-Item -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue $FileName $MoveDestination\n}\n}\n# Actually allow this module to have functions used outside via import\nExport-ModuleMember -Function *\nExport-ModuleMember -Variable *<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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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 … <\/p>\n