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title: "Bulk add files to existing Google Drive folders using Google Apps Script"
author: "Phil Bainbridge"
date: 2023-01-18T20:56:07+00:00
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description: "Latest snippet from Phil Bainbridge: \"The following Google Apps Script tool is designed to take a Google/Shared Drive folder full of files that you want to make a copy of and place into another set of existing Drive folders.You can decide if you want the subfolder name appending/prepending/ignoring in the file name of the new copy to help make it unique.\""
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# Bulk add files to existing Google Drive folders using Google Apps Script

![Bulk add files to existing Google Drive folders using Google Apps Script](https://pulse.appsscript.info/files/2023/01/Bulk20add20files20to20existing20Drive20folders.png)

> Take a Google/Shared Drive folder full of files that you want to make a copy of and place into another set of existing Drive folders.
> [https://www.pbainbridge.co.uk/2023/01/bulk-add-files-to-existing-google-drive.html](https://www.pbainbridge.co.uk/2023/01/bulk-add-files-to-existing-google-drive.html)Bulk add files to existing Google Drive folders

The following Google Apps Script tool is designed to take a Google/Shared Drive folder full of files that you want to make a copy of and place into another set of existing Drive folders.You can decide if you want the subfolder name appending/prepending/ignoring in the file name of the new copy to help make it unique.

The tool will iterate through a single level of folders (not sub-subfolders) and for each one place a copy of the files into it.

Source: *[The Gift of Script: Bulk add files to existing Google Drive folders*](https://www.pbainbridge.co.uk/2023/01/bulk-add-files-to-existing-google-drive.html)

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*Published by [Phil Bainbridge](https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/author/phillipbainbridge/) on [Pulse](https://pulse.appsscript.info/). Original article: [https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2023/01/bulk-add-files-to-existing-google-drive-folders-using-google-apps-script/](https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2023/01/bulk-add-files-to-existing-google-drive-folders-using-google-apps-script/)*