Find pdf files from a folder and copy into new folder

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Find pdf files from a folder and copy into new folder

Postby sk80au » Fri Jul 07, 2017 12:48 am

Hi everyone,

can anyone please let me know how to achieve this?

1- Search for a specific subfolder (called "Outputs") within a drive that contains hundreds of folders

2- Get the last modified subfolder within "Outputs" folder

3- Get the date modified of the all the pdf files under "Outputs" folder and then copy them into a new folders (called "Uncontrolled")

4- Rename the files with following format: filename-datemodified

5- delete the files from the last modified folder

Here's is more details:

K: drive

------ folder1

------ folder2

------ folder3

-----subfolder1

-----subfolder2

**-----Outputs**

------ **Uncontrolled**

-----03-04-2017

-----04-04-2017

-----05-04-2017** ( most recent folder)

----- A001-[3]-abcdefghij-03042017.pdf

----- A002-[3]-abcdefghijklm-03042017.pdf

----- A001-[3]-abcdefghijklmno-03042017.pdf

----- A001-[3]-abcdefghijgttry-04042017.pdf** (most recent pdf file)

Copy that into Uncontrolled folder

Change the value under []

delete the files from the most recent folder


HOW IT WILL LOOK LIKE AFTER :

------ Uncontrolled (folder)

----- A001-**[4]**-abcdefghijgttry-04042017.pdf (pdf has been copied and renamed)


Can someone please explain how to achieve this?
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Re: Find pdf files from a folder and copy into new folder

Postby therube » Fri Jul 07, 2017 4:02 pm

(I'm not really following, but I'll just say, that for finding files, there is nothing better then Everything.

Many times I'll find what I want, & drag that list of files into BRU to do renames.
[Everything itself can do renames too. Just use whatever might be more appropriate for a particular task.])
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