How to sort e.g. 200 folders into 8 parent folders of 25 subfolders each? (Windows 10)-CodePudding

I have 200 individual folders with 50 files inside each folder. I would like to sort these 200 individual folders into 8 parent folders of 25 subfolders each, whilst retaining all the files inside the subfolders.

Ideally, the naming structure of the parent folders should follow a sequential pattern based on a phrase (So e.g. "rvolkov Files 1", "rvolkov Files 2", etc).

I have tried to find powershell script for the above, but it seems to only work with files and not folders, so I haven't been able to utilise it (here)

How can I do this in Windows 10? If it helps, the individual folders are named after barcodes, so the first few digits are the same.

Thank you in advance

CodePudding user response：

According to what I assume is your question, this is a possible solution:

# GeneralParameters
$dir         = "C:\yourdirhere"
$ParentDepth = 8
$FolderCount = 25

$dirs        = gci $dir -Directory
cd $dir         #Makes it easier to debug and read the code, not entirely necessary.
$SubCounter = 0

for ($ParentCounter=1;$ParentCounter -le $ParentDepth;$ParentCounter   ) {
    mkdir "Parent$ParentCounter"
    for ($i=1;$i -le $FolderCount; $i  ) {
        Move-Item -Path $dirs[$SubCounter].FullName -Destination "Parent$ParentCounter"
        $SubCounter  
    }
}