Moving files depending on their size

[Matt20687]

Hello,

I am stuck and i hope you can help!

I am trying to create a batch file that will run on a schedule. It will check a folder and any files that are over 3072 bytes it will move it to another folder called Moved Files.

Does anyone know how to do this?

[Matt20687]

This is what i have so far, it moves all files in the folder rather than the ones that are under 3072 bytes. This is because i am defining the file as *.* i assume. I cannot figure out how to set the ones under 3072 bytes as a variable or something.

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set "dispatch=C:\Users\Matthew\Desktop\MM Image Count\Test folder"

for %%A in (%dispatch%) do if %%~zA LEQ 3072 move "*.*" "C:\Users\Matthew\Desktop\MM Image Count\Movefolder"

[Squashman]

%dispatch%\*.*
move %%A

[Matt20687]

set "dispatch=C:\Users\Matthew\Desktop\MM Image Count\Test folder"

for %%A in (%dispatch%\*.*) do if %%~zA LEQ 3072 move "%%A" "C:\Users\Matthew\Desktop\MM Image Count\Movefolder"

So it should look like this?

[Squashman]

Well your folder path has spaces so you will need quotes.

[Matt20687]

Thanks. My code which works based on it moving files which are only 3kb in size to another folder works great. This is below

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set "movefolder=C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Rogue Images Folder"
set "dispatch=E:\Matt\Test\dispatch\*.*"



for %%A in ("%dispatch%") do (
   if %%~zA LEQ 3072 move "%%A" "%movefolder%"
   )

I have one last request that i cannot figure out. As i have said this runs perfectly but what i would like to happen now is when it does the check for any files that are smaller than 3kb i would like it to launch a .exe. Lets call it test.exe for sake of a name.

I have tried to figure this out but i cannot get it to run once, it runs on the loop and runs the .exe as many times as there are files under 3kb. I assumed i would have to do a count of the amount of times the above coding searches through and finds a file under 3kb and then to do a simple if %count% GEQ 1 do ( start test.exe).

Anyone have any thoughts on how i can get a .exe to only run once if the above coding finds a 3kb rather than running it as many times as there are 3kb files (e.g. 5 3kb file would run test.exe 5 times).

Thanks,
Matt

[foxidrive]

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set "movefolder=C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Rogue Images Folder"
set "dispatch=E:\Matt\Test\dispatch\*.*"


set "flag="

for %%A in ("%dispatch%") do (
   if %%~zA LEQ 3072  (
           move "%%A" "%movefolder%"
           set flag=1
           )
   )

if defined flag test.exe

[Matt20687]

Thanks for this but how does it still move the files that are under 3kb as well as running the .exe only once?

[Matt20687]

Ignore me lol

[foxidrive]

Note that I modified the code above. Now it will only run the test.exe if files are moved.