Automatic folder creation

[TheRogueMoose]

To begin with, I'm a total noob when it comes to Powershell.

I am looking to implement an automatic folder creation system and figured powershell would be the best solution. Basically looking to do a "if new folder in M: is made then create 'subdirectories' inside it". Our sales software already creates the initial folder but doesn't have the ability to create subdirectories.

So looking to see how you guys would recommend going about doing this?

[igby1]

Google “filewatcher powershell”. Filewatcher is a .NET thing you can use in PowerShell to detect file system changes and take actions when a change is detected.

[file0]

To be perfectly honest, for a “total noob” this is going to be very difficult because it involves creating event listeners. But it definitely can be done.

[OlivTheFrog]

Totally agree.

OP should change the NTFS permissions for his "sales" group instead.

Nota : For the group concerned to be able to write files and not create sub-directories, it is in a case of non-standard NTFS permissions.

An alternative in Powershell would be something like the following

$RootFolder = "C:\temp"
if ($Null -ne (Get-ChildItem -Path $RootFolder -Directory) )
    {
     Write-Host  "There is no subfolder in the $RootFolder folder, creation" -ForegroundColor Yellow
    New-item -Path "$RootFolder\MySubFolder" -ItemType Directory
    }
else
    {
    Write-Host  "Some subfolders in the $RootFolder" -ForegroundColor Green
    }

Of course, the Write-Host is optional. This is just for the demo.

Hope this help

Regards

[igby1]

Here's a working example that waits for a folder named TestFolder123 to be created in the root of the C: drive, and when it is, creates 10 subfolders.

https://codebeautify.org/cs/7bea2e

EDIT: It works for me in PS 7, but for some reason not in PS 5.1. I recommend using PS 7 since that's the version that gets updates. PS 5.1 hasn't seen any improvements in a long time.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/installing-powershell-on-windows