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Kimi
Kimi

Reputation: 14099

Copy-Item when destination folder exists or doesn't

When destination folder exists the right way of copying files is defined here

Copy-Item 'C:\Source\*' 'C:\Destination' -Recurse -Force

If destination folder doesn't exist, some files in the source subfolders are copied straight into destination, without keeping original folder structure.

Is there a way to have a single Copy-Item command to address both cases and persist folder structure? Or is it too much to ask from Powershell?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 9700

Answers (2)

ryancdotnet
ryancdotnet

Reputation: 2260

Revised version of what Bonneau21 posted:

$SourceFolder = "C:\my\source\dir\*" # Asterisk means the contents of dir are copied and not the dir itself
$TargetFolder = "C:\my\target\dir"

$DoesTargetFolderExist = Test-Path -Path $TargetFolder

If ($DoesTargetFolderExist -eq $False) {
    New-Item -Path $TargetFolder -ItemType directory
}

Copy-Item -Path $SourceFolder -Destination $TargetFolder -Recurse -Force

Upvotes: 0

Bonneau21
Bonneau21

Reputation: 586

You may want to use a if statement with test-path

this is the script i used to fix this problem 

$ValidPath = Test-Path -Path c:\temp

If ($ValidPath -eq $False){

    New-Item -Path "c:\temp" -ItemType directory
    Copy-Item -Path "c:\temp" -Destination "c:\temp2" -force
}

Else {
      Copy-Item -Path "c:\temp" -Destination "c:\temp2" -force
     }

Upvotes: 2

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