Powershell move files and subfolders

Question

I can't try right now, but I think this will work (it will if you add the -force parameter that will create sub-folders if they don't exist)
PowershellMove-Item -Destination "C:\aa_Mine\test\PowershellTest\testto\$dirname\$($_.directory.name)" -force
 For each moved object, it will store it into $dirname\
 

Answer 1

Hello,Currently I have a batch script that moves files of a certain type from one folder to an archive folder with the current date. The script I use for this is:Batchfilefor /f "tokens=1* delims=" %%a in ('date /T') do set datestr=%%amkdir C:\ArchiveReportFiles\Archive\%date:/=%robocopy /E C:\eFinancials\report C:\ArchiveReportFiles\Archive\%date:/=% *.pdf /mov /minage:100 This works fine but it looks at the date modified not the date created so i still have files from over 2 years in there if somebody opened them by mistake, so I'm trying to recreate the the same script but using Powershell so I can use the CreationTime variable. I've got this:Powershell$dirname = "$((get-date).toString('dd-MM-yyyy'))"New-Item -ItemType directory -Path "C:\aa_Mine\test\PowershellTest\testto\$dirname"get-childitem -Path "C:\aa_Mine\test\PowershellTest...
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