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Pskonejott

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#34131 19-May-2009 09:27

I have about 600 DVD's on a NAS organised by Movie Name\<DVD files>. I would like to change this to Movie Name\VIDEO_TS\<DVD files>. Is anyone good with windows batch scripts able to help out? This will need to handle files and folders with spaces in the name.

I had a go and was able to get as far as creating the VIDEO_TS folders but I couldn't figure out how to do the file move into the new VIDEO_TS subfolders.

quandum

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#215860 19-May-2009 11:38

Are you able to post the script you're using so far please?

I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code

#BOFH

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#215870 19-May-2009 12:13

A COPY command followed by an errorlevel check, then a DELETE should do it.

Or you could do some advanced programming using XCOPY (Microsoft-provided) or XXCOPY (freeware available on the net).

With XXCOPY, I've once done a 'copy files between 30 to 60 days old to a new folder' batch that also compressed the folder and removed the originals.

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Pskonejott

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#215873 19-May-2009 12:21

quandum, unfortunately my laptop crashed during hibernation and I lost what I had but I'll take another look tonight if no one has any code I can use before then.

magu, copy is not feasible as it would involve transferring all 2.5TB of files back onto my laptop and then re-transferring them back to the NAS. Move would be much more elegant. However I need to do something like move z:\movie1\ to z:\movie1\VIDEO_TS\, but 600 times, or probably closer to 750 times if I do the TV shows too. I need something like a "for each" or a loop that will do this for me but I'm not familiar enough with batch scripts to write one.

quandum

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#215875 19-May-2009 12:25

try the script below. you will need to change the z:\movies path to suit your setup.

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder("z:\movies")
Set colSubfolders = objFolder.Subfolders
For Each objSubfolder in colSubfolders

ParentFolder = "z:\movies\"&objSubfolder.Name
set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
set objFolder = objShell.NameSpace(ParentFolder)
objFolder.NewFolder "Video_TS"

If objSubfolder.Size>0 Then

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
objFSO.MoveFile "z:\movies\"&objSubfolder.Name&"\*.*" , "z:\movies\"&objSubfolder.Name&"\Video_TS"

End If

Next

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Pskonejott

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#215884 19-May-2009 12:51

Thanks a lot, I tried it with a few local movies and it worked great. I'll do a smaller test run on the NAS and then parse it over the whole lot tonight.

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#215977 19-May-2009 16:07

Enjoy.

PS: any chance of "borrowing" some DVD's mwahah

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#223622 10-Jun-2009 14:55

Do do this yourself using batch files instead of VBScripting:
Batch File function library @ http://www.commandline.co.uk/lib/treeview/index.php or
The Windows Command line @ http://commandwindows.com/

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Batch file should something like this

@echo off
Z:
CD "dirname"
for %%k in (*.) do md "%%k\Video_TS"&&move "%%k\*.*" "%%k\Video_TS"

This is untested & only a suggested starting point
Use at your own peril

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