It is common when sorting digital movie collections to sort in a directory/movie-file type format where the directory and movie-file share the same name. Example: Godfather/Godfather.mkv This sorting script is capable of scanning an entire directory, and then creating directory folders based off of the movie file name. It will then move the file…

Sort-Movie-Files.ps1

#gets all files from specified path. scans each file and gets the BaseName of the file.
#script will create a directory for each BaseName and move the file to that new BaseName directory.
#this can be handy for things like sorting a digital movie collection.
#---------------------------------------------------------
$path = "V:\Movies\Sci-FI Top 50 movies\"
#---------------------------------------------------------
$files = Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | `
    Where-Object {$_.BaseName -notlike "Thumbs" -and $_.PSIsContainer -eq $false}
#$files #uncomment if you would like to display a list of the files to be moved
foreach ($file in $files) {
    Write-Output "-----------------------------"
    try {
        Write-Output "Checking if " $file.BaseName "DIR exists"
        $newDirPath1 = "$path\" + $file.BaseName
        $newDirPath = "$newDirPath1"
        [boolean]$check = Test-Path -LiteralPath "$newDirPath"
        if ($check -ne $true) {
            New-Item -ItemType Directory $newDirPath -ErrorAction Stop
            Write-Output "New DIR created."
        }
        $check = Test-Path -LiteralPath "$newDirPath"
        if ($check -eq $true) {
            Write-Output $newDirPath "found"

            Write-Output "Moving" $file.Name "to new DIR"
            $originPath = "$path\" + $file.Name
            Write-Output "Origin:" $originPath
            $destPath = "$newDirPath\" + $file.Name
            Write-Output "Destination:" $destPath
            Move-Item -LiteralPath $originPath -destination $destPath -ErrorAction Stop
            Write-Output "File Moved to new DIR"
        }
        else {
            Write-Output $newDirPath "NOT found"
        }
    }
    catch {
        Write-Error $_
    }
}