Bulk folder Creation in Windows

[scgf]

A few years ago I set up a set of empty folders in all user home areas to encourage them to file work according to subject. So each user had /My Documents/ICT, /My Documents/Science etc..

Unfortunately I have lost the script which accomplished this. I know it was something I had to type in a terminal window, but that's about it. We are using MS Server 2003/XP Workstations with Ranger.

Any ideas?

Cheers.

[Kyle]

I have a CMD file that does just this but its at work, if no one replies tonight I'll sort it out for you tomorrow.

[scgf]

What a quick response!! Thanks very much, Kyle.

[Dos_Box]

You should have posted it at 3am, it would have been quicker!*




*Bloody innsomniac members!

P.S. Oh, and welcome BTW

[tosca925]

You should have posted it at 3am, it would have been quicker!*

I'm nornally hovering around here till 1-00am but it does go quiet after 11-30pm.

With all these new members and all these added posts it takes me ages to get through them all on a daily basis.

[pooley]

Anychance of a copy of the script or cmd file ?

cheers

[scgf]

I sent a PM to Kyle back in January asking if he'd mind sending me the script, but he hasn't got back to me :-(

[NetworkGeezer]

A few years ago I set up a set of empty folders in all user home areas to encourage them to file work according to subject. So each user had /My Documents/ICT, /My Documents/Science etc..

Unfortunately I have lost the script which accomplished this. I know it was something I had to type in a terminal window, but that's about it. We are using MS Server 2003/XP Workstations with Ranger.

Any ideas?

Cheers.

How are your student home folders arrange flat directroy or year group?

The easier thing to do would be this

CD <folder containing student My Documents folders>
for /f %%s in ('dir /ad/b') do MD "%%s\Subject"

You can repeat the last line for as may subjects as you need, rembering to substitute ENGLISH, MATHS, SCIENCE etc for Subject.

[plexer]

Why not just do it in a login script.

if not exist h:\mathematics md h:\mathematics

etc...

Ben

[scgf]

Thanks, NetworkGeezer.

On our system, user folders on the server follow this pattern. Take John Smith in year 8:

E:\Data\Users Home Directories\Students\04smithjo

John's My Documents folder will be inside 04smithjo.

All student folder are inside the Students directory and year groups are differentiated by the initial two digits - representing the year that cohort entered the school.

How would your script work with this path?

If you need a UNC it is \\Server1\Students\04smithjo - we share the Students folder, not each individual user's folder.

[pooley]

I wanted a script to actually create the students HOME folder, not really bothered about any sub folders that may need creating.

Any suggestions or do I just buy some folder creation software and be done

[apeo]

This vbscript should work but not fully tested.

Dim oFS0, oFS1, oFolder, WshShell, strPath, CreateFolder
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set oFS0 = WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'change get folder path
strPath = "E:\Data\Users Home Directories\Students\"
Set oFolder = oFS0.GetFolder(strPath)


CreateFolders oFolder

Sub CreateFolders(oF)

Dim F

	For Each F In oF.subfolders
		'Create directories for each folder in the above path
		Set oFS1 = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
		Set CreateFolder = oFS1.CreateFolder(strPath & "\" & F.name & "\My Documents\ICT")
		Set CreateFolder = oFS1.CreateFolder(strPath & "\" & F.name & "\My Documents\Science")
		Set CreateFolder = Nothing
		Set oFS1 = Nothing
	Next

End Sub

'clean up
set oFolder = nothing
Set oFS0 = Nothing
set wshshell = nothing

EDIT:
This doesnt check if the folder exist or not and will go through every folder in the students folder so be aware.

[apeo]

I wanted a script to actually create the students HOME folder, not really bothered about any sub folders that may need creating.

Any suggestions or do I just buy some folder creation software and be done

So you want to creat multiple home directories with user details coming from a csv or something?

[pooley]

yes m8 - got all user details in csv or if there is a way of interrogating AD and using the results from there I would use that too

[plexer]

Pooley: Please start a new thread for your question as that doesn't appear to be what the original poster was after.

Thanks,

Ben