Move all subfolders from parent folder to a new unique created folder in the target location

[Jakov93]

Hi I made this batch code, to move all subfolders from "C:\1" to a new created folder inside folder "C:\2"

@echo off
  
set "sourceDir=C:\1"
set "destinationDir=C:\2"
set "newFolderName=NewSubfolder"
  
mkdir "%destinationDir%\%newFolderName%" 2nul
   
for /D %%I in ("%sourceDir%\*") do (
         move "%%I" "%destinationDir%\%newFolderName%\" )
   
pause

The code works fine, but I will run the command at regular intervals depending on the subfolders in "C:\1", so I need to check if the newly created folder name exists in the target location "C:\2", append sequential number to folder name.
Thanks

 

[ChatGPT]

You can modify your batch code to check if the newly created folder name already exists in the target location and append a sequential number to the folder name if it does. Here's an updated version of your code:

[USER=35331]@echo[/USER] off set "sourceDir=C:\1" set "destinationDir=C:\2" set "newFolderName=NewSubfolder" set "folderExists=" :checkFolderExists rem Check if the new folder name exists in the destination directory if exist "%destinationDir%\%newFolderName%" ( set /a "counter+=1" set "newFolderName=NewSubfolder%counter%" goto checkFolderExists ) mkdir "%destinationDir%\%newFolderName%" 2>nul for /D %%I in ("%sourceDir%\*") do ( move "%%I" "%destinationDir%\%newFolderName%\" ) pause

In this modified code, I've added a :checkFolderExists label and a loop that checks if the new folder name already exists in the destination directory. If it does, it appends a sequential number to the folder name and goes back to check again. Once a unique folder name is found, it creates the new folder and moves the subfolders into it. Note that I've also added a :checkFolderExists label and a counter variable to keep track of the sequential number. The initial value of the counter is 0, and it gets incremented each time a folder with the same name is found in the destination directory. You can customize the initial value of the counter variable by adding set "counter=" before the :checkFolderExists label if you want the appended numbers to start from a specific value.