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Posted on by qwe321

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Hello i would like to use move files. But i cant figure out how to do something like this

For each folder

Loop

Lets say our main folder is admin

admin has 5 subfolder more or less

each folder has 2 subfolders and inside those are the files that i want to move next to that 2 subfolder. and delete the rest.

The problem i am having the 5 subfolder always have different names (but they end the same if it helps) how do i gram the files from subfolders and move it up

ps. i cant move all bc it would also put the other unworked files up and it would be a mess.

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CU11031527-0 4 on at

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Hi,

I have a similar issue, were you able to get a solution to copy the files?

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eetuRobo 4,587 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

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Hello

Try something like this:

So first use Get subfolders in folder to the "admin" folder (the parent folder). Do not include subfolders.

Then use For each loop to go through those folders in the admin folder. In that first loop get subfolders again so that you can go through the files of those folders one by one and move the files to the currentAdminFolder.

In the start I had admin folder which has 5 subfolders.

All those subfolders have 2 subfolders inside them

And those subfolders have some files in them

After the flow has run it looks like this:

The sub-subfolders (most bottom folders) are empty since the files are moved to one folder up admin subfolders

Code to paste to your flow editor:
Folder.GetSubfolders Folder: $'''C:\\Users\\YourUser\\Desktop\\admin''' FolderFilter: $'''*''' IncludeSubfolders: False FailOnAccessDenied: True SortBy1: Folder.SortBy.NoSort SortDescending1: False SortBy2: Folder.SortBy.NoSort SortDescending2: False SortBy3: Folder.SortBy.NoSort SortDescending3: False Subfolders=> AdminFolders LOOP FOREACH CurrentAdminFolder IN AdminFolders Folder.GetSubfolders Folder: CurrentAdminFolder FolderFilter: $'''*''' IncludeSubfolders: False FailOnAccessDenied: True SortBy1: Folder.SortBy.NoSort SortDescending1: False SortBy2: Folder.SortBy.NoSort SortDescending2: False SortBy3: Folder.SortBy.NoSort SortDescending3: False Subfolders=> SubFolders LOOP FOREACH CurrentItem IN SubFolders Folder.GetFiles Folder: CurrentItem FileFilter: $'''*''' IncludeSubfolders: False FailOnAccessDenied: True SortBy1: Folder.SortBy.NoSort SortDescending1: False SortBy2: Folder.SortBy.NoSort SortDescending2: False SortBy3: Folder.SortBy.NoSort SortDescending3: False Files=> Files File.Move Files: Files Destination: CurrentAdminFolder IfFileExists: File.IfExists.DoNothing MovedFiles=> MovedFiles END END

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