Batch Rename to Truncate and Merge Folders

Question

We migrated to OneDrive and one of the computers copied folders and added the user name to the end of the folder while still keeping some parts of the folder.

Now we are left with 600 folders. Our base folder is here:

C:\Users\Jason\OneDrive - company files\Company Files

Within it we have all of our project folders which look like this

\(Job Name)\
\(Job Name)-Dave-HP\

Even the subfolders were hit

\(Job Name)\(Subfolder)
\(Job Name)-Dave-HP\(Subfolder)-Dave-HP

Both of these folders have data in them that needs to merge. The script will need to merge the folders and overwrite any duplicate files that exist.

Anyone have any ideas without manually deleting the end off of each folder and letting Explorer merge them? Running Windows 10.

Answer 1

## Q:\Test\2019\05\31\SU_1443421.ps1
$BaseDir = 'C:\' # 'A:\Test' # 
$Appendix= '-Dave-HP'

Get-ChildItem $BaseDir -Recurse -File | Where-Object Directory -Match $Appendix |
ForEach-Object{
    $DestDir = $_.Directory -Replace $Appendix
    if(!(Test-Path $DestDir -PathType Container)){MD $DestDir |Out-Null }
    $_ | Move-Item -Destination $DestDir\ -Force #-whatif
}

Uncomment (remove #) the -WhatIf to first check what the PowerShell script would do.

Changed logic completely, the script will leave empty directories with trailing $Appendix untouched.