From: erik.tank@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, December 17, 2013 7:31:58 PM UTC-6, foxidrive wrote:   
   > On 18/12/2013 11:32, Gleep wrote:   
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   > > I'm trying to figure out a way to move all of a user's files and put them   
   into a subdirectory currently in their own folder.   
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   > > Example:   
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   > > C:\Data\User1\*.* moved to C:\Data\User1\files\*.*   
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   > > I need to retain completely directory structure (empty folders, as well as   
   folders and files with spaces in their names).   
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   > > This seems like such a simple task, but I'm almost out of hair... maybe   
   I'm missing something?   
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   > > Thanks in advance!   
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   > Use xcopy to copy them all to a folder in c:\data and then move the folder   
   into c:\data\user1\files after   
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   > the xcopy.   
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   > This will stop the error message from xcopy.   
      
   Thanks for the xcopy tip - I thought about using this first, but xcopy doesn't   
   MOVE files, it copies them.  In this instance, I do not want to make a copy,   
   as it is over 1TB of data between all our users, not to mention the time it   
   takes to copy    
   something vs just moving it.     
      
   What I've done so far is fumbled my way through making a script which parses   
   the user's directory and saves it to a file (all the files, folders, and   
   subfolders).  Then I use a for statement to move each file into the "files"   
   subfolder.    
      
   The first problem I had was once the "files" subdirectory was created, it   
   started moving the "files" folder that already had data in it to another   
   subfolder "files" almost like an infinite loop scenario.  For that, I am using   
   the findstr /V command to    
   filter out the "files" folder and only move data that doesn't belong to that   
   directory.     
      
   Right now this script ALMOST works - the problem I am having is any folder or   
   file with a space in it gets skipped and an error pops up about the file not   
   existing (because it's only trying to copy the file up until the space, not   
   using the whole    
   filename).  For this, I tried adding another for statement which adds double   
   quotes at the beginning and end of each line in my findstr output file, but   
   even when I watch the script run - It has quotes around it, but sadly only   
   takes it up to the first    
   space and then cuts off the other quote.     
      
   Here's my script.  I enter the bat file's name followed by the username (which   
   gets passed as %1 value).  At the end I move the list directory back to the   
   root folder so I can see what data should have been moved.   
      
   dir C:\dfs_shares\home\staff\%1/s/b | findstr /V /R /I /C:"\files"   
   /C:"\cache"  >"C:\dfs_shares\home\staff\%1\@movelist"   
   for /f "tokens=*" %%a in (C:\dfs_shares\home\staff\%1\@movelist) do echo   
   "%%a">>"C:\dfs_shares\home\staff\%1\@movelist2"   
   pause   
   mkdir C:\dfs_shares\home\staff\%1\files   
   for /f %%f in (C:\dfs_shares\home\staff\%1\@movelist2) do move %%f   
   c:\dfs_shares\home\staff\%1\files\   
   move C:\dfs_shares\home\staff\%1\files\@movelist C:\dfs_shares\h   
   me\staff\%1\@movelist   
   move C:\dfs_shares\home\staff\%1\files\@movelist2 C:\dfs_shares\   
   ome\staff\%1\@movelist2   
      
   The second for loop in my code is the problem.  It is not parsing an entire   
   line, it is parsing the first glob of text - as soon as it hits a space, it   
   returns that value instead of taking everything in the quotes as one value.   
      
   If you (anyone) knows how to fix that so my second for loop pulls in a whole   
   line of text instead of up until the first space, I think that would solve my   
   problem!    
      
   Thanks again!   
      
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