[SOLVED] Moving Files and Keeping Duplicates

Moving Files and Keeping Duplicates

I'm trying to move files and keep duplicate file names by appending (1) to one of the duplicate files.

I'm using

cd /D "source directory"
move *.JPG "target directory"

which doesn't solve the problem. Can someone please help?

Thank you for the assistance.

Solution

This should do what you want. We dir and search for all .jpg files in the source folder, then check if it exists, if it does, append a number using a counter, if it does not exist, we just move it..

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set "source=D:\source\"
set "dest=D:\destination\"
set /a cnt=0
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir /S /B /A-D "%source%*.jpg"') do for /f "tokens=*" %%b in ('dir /B "%%a"') do if exist "%dest%\%%b" (
        set "ext=%%~xa"
        set "fname=%%~na"
        if exist "%dest%\!fname!(!cnt!)!ext!" (set /a cnt=!cnt!+1)
        set /a cnt=!cnt!+1
        move "%%a" "%dest%\!fname!(!cnt!)!ext!"
) else move "%%a" "%dest%\%%b"