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How to move half of the files in a folder?

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Hi I'm making a power automate desktop flow that process xml data and when there are more than 6000 files it gives me error so I need to separate those files into two and process twice. 

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I know that I could move entire files like this but how do I move only half of it? Thank you in advance

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  • Riyaz_riz11 Profile Picture
    Riyaz_riz11 4,214 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    Hi @Anonymous ,

     

    If you want move half of the files by directly you cant move you must use loop for that.

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    Refer this it will work for you.

     

    Regards

    Ahammad Riyaz

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    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi Ahammad thank you for your reply. 

     

    I aware that I could move file by loop but it's not very inefficient to go through entire files one by one since I have thousands of files to go through. Is there way to move half of the files at once? 

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    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    Ok I figured out you can just do files[0: count].

  • MichaelAnnis Profile Picture
    MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

    So, just to confirm, Move files %Files[0:2999]% will move the first 3000 files?

  • Riyaz_riz11 Profile Picture
    Riyaz_riz11 4,214 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    Yes, Verified.

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    Riyaz_riz11 4,214 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

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    files[0: count]

     

    Verified It was working as expected.

     

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