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How to move filsed from one folder to another based on the file name

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Posted on by dobracik

Hello,

Not sure, whether this has been asked by somebody in the past. I'm fully newbie in Power automate and trying to find a solution to our work.

I have one folder with over 9000 of pdf files and need to move all of them to another folders according to one word( serial number).

Example:

File name XYZ January Beta => to be moved to XYZ folder

File name ABC January Beta => to be moved to ABC folder

If I have multiple files with same serial number, all of them will be moved to same folder.

etc.

Is there any simple way to do it? 😔

I cannot imagine to do it manually, Thanks

Jenny

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lbendlin 8,479 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Where are these files stored? Are they accessible via Powershell ?

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dobracik 10 on at

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Hi, quite not sure, but we uploaded those files to One Drive cloud and now we have to split all of them.

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lbendlin 8,479 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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You could sync that Onedrive folder down to a local drive and access that via PowerShell. It would require some network traffic.

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dobracik 10 on at

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Ah, did now that but I do not know,on how to do that. I have synced that folder in my driver,but that's it 😔 do you on how to do that? Its on my work PC

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lbendlin 8,479 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Once you have synced the folder down you can treat is as if it were a local folder. Run your Powershell scripts, and it will then sync the changes back up.

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dobracik 10 on at

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Im not able to write powershell script, Im newbie on Power automate completely😔

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lbendlin 8,479 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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The point here is that you don't really need Power Automate. You could do it with a couple batch commands, with PowerShell, or even manually. Whatever you feel comfortable with.

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dobracik 10 on at

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It would take weeks to move all those files according to the serial number to the specific folders 😞
Not able to use Powershell as I;m not able to write any command in there.
is here anybody, who could help, please? 😞

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dobracik 10 on at

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Is here aybody who could support?😥

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