The other day I was helping a friend with a reporting tool he was using. He mentioned that the application was really slow when loading data. The application he was running had log files that where populated into a directory. When the application would try and grab new data it had to go through all the files.

We wanted to keep the older files so if he ever needed to make change or apply a filters to the data it could be reloaded.  We decided to move the old files that where not needed to a new location. That way he could go back and grab the data but it would no effect the load time. We decided to move all files older then this year to a different directory. Instead of manually moving all the files we just created a batch file to do this in one click of a button. The application he used had the date the file was created in the name so this made things very easy. 

In this example I have setup two folders called original and new folder. We will move sample text files from the original folder to the new folder. In this example I will show you the code I used. I then will break it down and explain what each part does.

Let’s create a batch file to move these files