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Moving Files and Keeping Duplicates

I'm trying to move files and keep duplicate file names by appending (1) to one of the duplicate files.

I'm using 

cd /D "source directory"
move *.JPG "target directory"

which doesn't solve the problem. Can someone please help?

Thank you for the assistance.

Solution

  • This should do what you want. We dir and search for all .jpg files in the source folder, then check if it exists, if it does, append a number using a counter, if it does not exist, we just move it..

    @echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set "source=D:\source\"
set "dest=D:\destination\"
set /a cnt=0
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir /S /B /A-D "%source%*.jpg"') do for /f "tokens=*" %%b in ('dir /B "%%a"') do if exist "%dest%\%%b" (
        set "ext=%%~xa"
        set "fname=%%~na"
        if exist "%dest%\!fname!(!cnt!)!ext!" (set /a cnt=!cnt!+1)
        set /a cnt=!cnt!+1
        move "%%a" "%dest%\!fname!(!cnt!)!ext!"
) else move "%%a" "%dest%\%%b"