Moving files and renameing duplicats - batch-file

Question

I need to move files from C:\users\users name\documents\sound recordings\ directory to our network drive P:\transcription\users name\. I need the files to automatically get renamed if the file exist in the P:\transcription\users name directory. I am a novice and can only write simple batch files and the one I wrote to move the files will over write the files with the same name in the directory. Thanks

Answer 1

This may help.
It will display files to be moved with resulting filename. If it works ok for you , remove the line echo !src!%%~nxa - !dst!!file! and delete the rem keyword from rem move !src!%%a !dst!!file! >nul
#echo off
SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set "wildcard=*.*" & rem files to search for
set "skipUsers=Guest Administrator" & rem users not to copy files
:: get users
set/a offset=0
for /F "skip=2 tokens=2 delims=," %%1 in ('wmic useraccount get name^,sid /format:csv') do (
set/a offset+=1, USER_MAX=offset
set "USER[!offset!]=%%1"
)
for /L %%i in (1,1,%USER_MAX%) do (
set/a skip=0, numFiles=0
set "currentUser=!USER[%%i]!"
set "src=C:\!currentUser!\documents\sound recordings\"
set "dst=P:\transcription\!currentUser!\"
rem get time stamp
for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%A in ('wmic os get localdatetime /value') do set "Tm=%%A"
set "timeStamp=!Tm:~0,4!!Tm:~4,2!!Tm:~6,2!_!Tm:~8,2!!Tm:~10,2!!Tm:~12,2!"
for %%a in (%skipUsers%) do if /I "!currentUser!" equ "%%a" set/a skip=1
if !skip! neq 0 ( rem avoid copying blacklist users
echo !currentUser!: Skipping
) else (
<nul set/P="!currentUser!: Moving files"
pushd !src!
dir /ad !dst! >NUL 2>NUL || md !dst! & rem create destination folder if it doesn't exist
for %%a in (%wildcard%) do (
set "file=%%~nxa"
if exist "!dst!!file!" set "file=%%~na_!timeStamp!%%~xa" & rem rem if file exist, append a time stamp suffix to avoid overwriting
echo !src!%%~nxa - !dst!!file!
rem move !src!%%~nxa !dst!!file! >nul
set/a numFiles+=1
)
echo : !numfiles! files moved
popd
)
)
EndLocal
exit/B