File copy script

[Quackers]

Does anybody have a script that would allow me to do the following quickly.

 

I have my current users My Documents as their home folder.

 

E:\Homes\Users\

 

To accomidate Windows 7 and its annoying feature of renaming every home folder to "Documents", i have decided to alter the structure.

 

So i will have E:\Homes\%username%\My Documents instead.

 

I am also moving it from 1 server to another.

 

So i could do with a quick way of moving them. Say i map Y: as the new servers Homes folder during this process.

 

E:\Homes\User\ to Y:\Homes\User\My Documents

 

Hope that makes sense!

[mac_shinobi]

Robocopy

 

Microsoft Robocopy GUI For Windows Robocopy

 

Along with the robocopy GUI - link to this is on the above page.

 

wikipedia page on robocopy - see bottom for table with versions etc

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy

[srochford]

move e:\homes e:\homestemp
md e:\homes
cd e:\homestemp
for /d %i in (*) do md e:\homes\%i & ren %i "my documents" & move "my documents" e:\homes\%i

 

 

WARNING!!!

 

Do make sure you've got a good backup! I've tried this on 2 folders and it works fine but I had just created them and the permissions were "correct" etc etc. If you replace the * in the final line with (say) z* then you'll only move usernames beginning with Z so you get a chance to be confident.

 

When you do the md e:\homes step you might want to add a cacls line to set the permissions properly at the top level. The next step shouldn't need permissions changing - you're moving so the permissions will move with them.

 

Note that this is written as a set of lines to type at the command prompt. If you put them in a batch file you need to double up the % signs (so %%i instead of %i)

 

@mac_shinobi; - I don't think robocopy will work (I did think about it; generally for questions containing the words "move home directories" the answer is "robocopy" but I can't see how to move stuff into a sub-directory of itself hence the convoluted swap I've used. Happy to be proved wrong :-)