Moving files in Powershell

Question

I have this line of code to move files and folders over a certain age to another folder

But it doesnt work, I run it but it just goes back to a prompt

Get-ChildItem -Recurse c:\test | where-Object {$_.Creationtime -lt (Get-Date).AddMonths(-6)} | ForEach-Object { robocopy "c:\test" "c:\old" /Z /S  }

CB. · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-10 14:07:47Z

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Edit: only robocopy

robocopy "c:\test" "c:\old"  /Z /S /MINAGE:yyyymmdd (or /MINAGE:<numbers of days>)

edited Feb 10, 2012 at 14:07

answered Feb 10, 2012 at 10:46

CB.

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Ocaso Protal Over a year ago

Will not work correctly, you need $_.Fullname instead of "c:\test\$($_.name)"

user1130264 Over a year ago

Christian thanks for your help, but that doesnt work either...its like the robocopy part isnt running. I tried running the Robocopy from the cmd line and that works fine on its own

user1130264 Over a year ago

Ocaso, do you mean like this "c:\test\$_.Fullname)" ?

Jeffery Hicks Over a year ago

First, do you really need Robocopy? Second, do you really want to move folders created before a certain date? The folders might contain newer files? Or do you really just want to move old files and retain the directory structure?

CB. Over a year ago

@OcasoProtal Sure! The problem here is using robocopy as Jeffery say is not the best way mixing with powershell

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