moving the list of files with robocopy - powershell

Question

I want to move some files from one place to another with saving of directory. Result of my script is broken encoding and it doesn't work. I use robocoby, because I have files with names more 256 simbols. I need to move files from different locations. And we are talking about several hundred files.
$source = Get-Content "C:\Users\bill\Downloads\111.TXT" -Encoding UTF8
$destination = "C:\Users\bill\OneDrive\Documents"
foreach($file in $source)
{
robocopy $file $destination /MOVE /E /copyall /log:C:\Users\bill\OneDrive\Documents\log.txt
}

Answer 1

Jane,
Try building your robocopy command like this:
*** UPDATED and TESTED ***
Clear-Host
$source = Get-Content "G:\Test\111.txt" -Encoding UTF8
$destination = "G:\BEKDocs\Test"
Foreach ($SrcPath in $source) {
$file = Split-Path -Path $SrcPath -Leaf
$path = Split-Path -Path $SrcPath -parent
$PLen = $Path.Length -3
$PAdd = $Path.Substring(3,$PLen)
$SavePath = Join-Path -Path $Destination -ChildPath $PAdd
$robocopyOptions = #('/Move', '/copyall')
$LogFile =
#('/log+:G:\BEKDocs\Transfer\log.txt')
$CmdLine = #($path, $SavePath, $file) +
$robocopyOptions + $LogFile
& 'robocopy.exe' $CmdLine
} #End Foreach
Note: Use single quotes as indicated!
Update notes:
Part of the problem was that you had the filenames attached to the paths in your file where RoboCopy wants SourcePath DestPath FileSpec as the first three arguments.
You're copying single files so there is no need for the Recurse /E parameter.
Since you want to preserve the directory structure you need to append the Source path, less the drive (d:) to your destination directory.
You're also calling RoboForm in a loop so you need the /Log+ parameter so each file is appended to the file rather than over writing it.
In my test I copied a file from the base directory, another from one level deep and a third from 2 levels deep. The code preserved the directory structure starting with the specified Destination as the Base or Root directory.
Took a bit of time to figure all this out but I wasn't going to let it go. Hope this works for you!