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[Scifigirl]

Morning all,

 

I have been asked to copy a set of files from our admin share to a whole school share on a daily basis. My script worked fine for the first few days but is now copying files to the outside of the folder structure.

 

i.e. taking file a from inside folder a and copying it to the root of the folder.

 

can someone please give me a clue as to what in my script is wrong?

 

Copy-Item -Path "\\server\share\rootfolder\foldera\*" -Destination "\\server\share2\rootfolder" -Recurse -Force

 

Thanks in advance!!

[CHiLL]

I'm not an great at Powershell, but try addding a backslash at the end of the destination path.

Copy-Item -Path "\\server\share\rootfolder\foldera\*" -Destination "\\server\share2\rootfolder\" -Recurse -Force

[Reverend_Dan]

Can also take the * out, I do something similar with copying folder structures over to the pupil accounts.

$locationOfFiles="\\SERVER\SHARE\FOLDERA\"
$destinationFolder = "\\SERVER\SHARE2\FOLDERB\"
If (Test-Path $destinationFolder) {    
  Copy-Item $locationOfFiles $destinationFolder -Recurse -Force    
}
else {
   write-host "Cant find destination folder"
}

edited for structure

Edited October 2, 2019 by Reverend_Dan