Windows 10: How to ind files in subdirectories and copy to a specific root directory automatically?

Hello all and Happy New Year in advance,I have a root folder containing over a hundred folders, that have at least one level sub-folders themselves. Most of the folders contain a file of FILE type no extension somewhere in their structure, generally in a sub-folder.I want to scan all the whole directory structure, and copy all the files of type FILE to the root directory.How to I automate this in Windows, hopefully using Microsoft tools rather than third-party tools, although I will use the latter if easier to set-up as I will need to repeat this kind of operation many times in future.Thank

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Script can copy file directory in one spot but not the other

As the domain user (I'm assuming you are not Fred) can you do to a subdirectory of Fred and just do a copy and paste of a file out of the directory?

 

does file history include subdirectories?

Does Win 10 File History backup feature automatically include all subdirectories of folders that are added to the include list?

That is, if I specify c:\users\username, will all subdirectories under c:\users\username automatically get backed up? Or do I have to manually add each subdirectory?

 

Script can copy file directory in one spot but not the other

It's having trouble copying any of the files in the sub directories of frank. All the files directly under frank are properly backed up and the originals are properly edited.

The script runs using a foreach, looking for any file that ends with a specific extension, in the directory specified. It uses File::find to locate each file. The script first copies the file and adds "orig" to the extension name, for example the file is .origpy instead of .py. The original file is changed from read only to full write permissions. Then it is opened for reading, all is read into memory except the comments. The file is closed. The file is opened for writing. Everything from the file in memory is written to file. The file is closed, and changed back to read only.

This works great in Linux. I tried it in XP, its fine as well. just something about the directory structure on this server that wont let it work for the sub directories in frank.