Hi there, I've been trying to make my life a little bit easier in regards to moving my clients .pst files around and have been trying to devise a way to move all .pst's within my C drive INCLUDING any within subdirectories (I set a few up in different locations for testing) to a certain folder. Currently the command I'm using is this: move C:\*.pst %userprofile%\Mail Obviously that's moving any PST file within the root directory into the Mail folder. I'm sure there must be a switch/parameter that I'm missing that will include any PST's in the C drive subdirectories... But I'm not an expert with the command line... yet! This will eventually go towards a script that I will roll out on each end user machine, but I'm sure I'll figure that part out. Any advice would be much appreciated :@) Pete

I would use robocopy. Here's some switch info: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/05/07/robocopy-syntax-command-line-switches-and-examples/ Test the /E or the /S switches.

The for command is your friend. for /r c:\ %i in (*.pst) do move %i %userprofile%\Mail

That's pretty class JS2010, thanks! However I'm not sure I understand those commands, I'll have to do a bit of reading into that to get an idea of what that all means (unless you're willing to enlighten me?) Problem is that some .PST's didn't move. For example I created three .pst's, called Move1, 2 and 3 and placed them in various folders on my C:/. As the command went along it hit some and said "The syntax of the command is incorrect.".. Which I thought was odd as there's no special permissions on these folders. Any ideas?

Maybe you have to quote it? for /r c:\ %i in (*.pst) do move "%i" %userprofile%\Mail

You sir, are a king amongst men. I have one more question, my plan here is to have all the files move at logon, into a folder which I intend to make with a batch file script also. The script I have made goes like this: mkdir %userprofile%\Mail4 for /r c:\ %i in (*.pst) do move "%i" %userprofile%\Mail4 This only creates the Mail4 folder though... I've tried with & and && but this doesn't seem to make the second command run. Any thoughts?

Press return after the second line?

If this runs as a batch file the command screen opens for a split second, in which time it creates the folder. Second line isn't run.

FYI: When you use this in a batchfile you have to use %%i instead of %i so your logon.bat will contain this: mkdir %userprofile%\Mail4 for /r c:\ %%i in (*.pst) do move "%%i" %userprofile%\Mail4 PS: don't forget as well that %%i is case-sensitive and not the same as %%I (could be %%a or whatever as well)

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