Hi,
I'm trying to move files older than 30 days to archive location and to maintain path to files at that location. For example source location D:\Active Data and archive location at E:\Archive\Active Data\
Problem is that when I run this script, the first letter of source directory is missing at destination.

Could someone look at script and give me suggestion to correct this problem?

$Source = "D:\Test\"
$Destination ="E:\Test2\"
$List = get-childitem -path $Source -recurse *.* | where-object {$_.CreationTime -ilt[datetime]::now.adddays(-30)}
foreach($file in $list){
$MovePath = (join-path -path $Destination -childpath $file.FullName.SubString(4))
$MoveDirectory = (join-path -path $Destination -childpath $file.DirectoryName.SubString(4))
new-item -path $MoveDirectory -type directory -ea SilentlyContinue
move-item -Path $file.FullName -destination $MovePath
}

Powershell (and most C based languages begin counting at 0) so you want to use 3 to denote the fourth char.

Might a suggest a different version of your first three lines.

$Source = 'D:\Test\'
$Destination = 'E:\Test2\'

$Past = (Get-Date).AddDays(-30)
$List = dir $Source -recurse | Where {$_.CreationTime -lt $Past}

Finally the script works as I planned.

Much appreciated!

Hi can someone help me to add some features to this script?

I want that if there is an error action that it sends an e-mail with high importance to me, but i don't know how i can realize it.
Can Someone help me please?

I'll try to test this later on, but in your move-item cmdlet change it to

move-item -Path $file.FullName -destination $MovePath -errorvariable +$myerror

then below your foreach loop put an if statement something like

if ($myerror -ne $null)
{
Send-MailMessage -from myaddress@mydomain.com -body "here's what you want in the body" -recipients myaddress@mydomain.com -priority high
}

You'll need Powershell v2 to have the Send-MailMessage cmdlet.

I have a new Problem if i run my script it does not copy the files from the source directory to the destination directory.
This is the Error I get:

Cannot process argument because the value of argument "name" is invalid. Change the value of the "name" argument and run the operation again.


And this is the Source of the Script:

$Source = 'E:\source\'
$Destination = 'E:\destination\'

$sender = 'sender@test.de'
$recipient = 'recipient@test.de'

$Past = (Get-Date).AddDays(-14)
$List = get-childitem -path $Source -recurse *.* | where-object {$_.CreationTime -lt $Past}
foreach($file in $list)
{
$MovePath = (join-path -path $Destination -childpath $file.FullName.SubString(3))
$MoveDirectory = (join-path -path $Destination -childpath $file.DirectoryName.SubString(3))
new-item -path $MoveDirectory -type directory -ea SilentlyContinue
copy-item -Path $file.FullName -destination $MovePath -errorvariable +$myerror
}
if ($myerror -ne $null)
{
Send-MailMessage -from $sender -subject "$myerror" -body "$myerror" -recipients $recipient -priority high
}