Hi All,
I'm trying to copy a folder structure and it works with my 1st command but not the 2nd.
gc c:\!Demo\list.txt|%{Copy-Item -Path $_ -Destination ($_ -replace "C:\\!Demo\\", "C:\!Demo\Test\")}
gc c:\AD\list.txt |%{Copy-Item -Path $_ -Destination ($_ -replace "C:\\AD\\","C:\AD\Test\")}

Unless I've been looking at this to long these 2 lines should work the same:( 1st one does but 2nd one doesn't
I get the following error for each file when trying the 2nd line above.
Copy-Item : Could not find a part of the path 'C:\AD\Test\2007.txt'. At line:1 char:31 + gc c:\AD\list.txt|%{Copy-Item <<<< -Path $_ -Destination ($_ -replace "C:\\AD\\","C:\AD\Test\")} + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Copy-Item], DirectoryNotFoundException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.CopyItemCommand

Thanks for any help on this one.
Jay

You want to copy just the folder structure, not files, correct?

Hi Shay,

Actually I want to copy both. I found if I create subfolders separately then my files will copy fine. But if subfolder not there then get error messages. Can't figure out why my 1st line works just fine and 2nd doesn't. Folder properties and permissions are the same. I guess I could make 2 passes if you know how to get folders created and then I could copy files. I'm on a very tight time frame right now so just need it to work.

Thanks,

Jay

This works for me ( D:\ScriptsBackup doesn't exist and gets created):

Copy-Item D:\Scripts -Recurse -Destination D:\ScriptsBackup

That's what I don't get. I think both of my commands are basically doing what you did except the 1st one works and 2nd doesn't. Any other ideas? I don't get it:(

Can you try this:

gc c:\AD\list.txt |% {
Copy-Item -Path $_ -Destination ($_.substring(0,6)+"test\"+$_.substring(6))
}

Unfortunately same result
Copy-Item : Could not find a part of the path 'C:\AD\test\2007.txt'.

My bad, add -Force -Recurse to copy-item.

I had tried that before with same result. I don't use the recurse becuase the list.txt is actually a list of files in AD folder. This is just a simple test of what I need to do in production. In production I'm actually needing to remove 1600+ files from a list that I've been given.
The files are scattered throughout many subdirectories. I could probably get them out by hard coding a destination but want to try and preserve folder structure so it will be easy to put files back into original structure when needed. Hope that makes sense. So my copy-item really will become a move-item but for getting past this problem found it easier to use copy-item