Tuesday 18 February 2020

Bulk create test folders/files in Google Drive

The following Google Apps Script is designed to bulk create a set number of Google Drive folder/files as quickly as possible. Its purpose was to support a bigger project I was working on with bulk moving folders/files from My Drive to Shared Drive.
Screenshot of example folder structure in Google Drive
Screenshot of example folder structure in Google Drive

The script makes use of 4 'loops' with the option to define how many folders/files you want to create at each level. There is an initial top row of folders each with files, then a row of sub-folders under this each with files too.

Selecting to create 5 of each via the parameters would produce 175 items in total, within about 8 minutes.

Bulk create test folders/files in Google Drive
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4 comments:

  1. Richard H16 February 2022 at 08:21

    Hi - where did the project to move/copy files from MyDrive to Shared Drives?
    We have the same problem as many I guess, too many files in MyDrive and they need to be in Shared Drives. Any thoughts and solutions welcomed

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    1. Phil Bainbridge16 February 2022 at 17:50

      Hi Richard

      I'm afraid that's not a project I've got. I've played around with a few prototypes but never had anything I'm happy to release.

      Kind regards
      Phil

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  2. Unknown18 February 2022 at 01:38

    Hi Phil,
    I would like to bulk create folders in a shared drive, with 3 subfolders in each. I kind of need this: https://www.pbainbridge.co.uk/2021/05/bulk-create-google-drive-folders-with.html with an extra 2 subfolders. How can I edit the scrip and matching sheets template to do this?
    Thanks for everything you've shared!

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    1. Phil Bainbridge18 February 2022 at 08:27

      Hi

      Thank you.

      Yes you're going to need to create some extra columns for each of the subfolders. Then it's a matter of working with some loops to go through these extra columns (it's perfectly feasible, but requires some careful planning/thought about how to do the iterating). I can't really point at a specific line of code to just change as it needs more code writing/inserting.

      Kind regards
      Phil

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