Move folders and contents with Powershell - powershell

Question

OK, trying to copy folders and contents from a UNC path (shared drive) to another UNC path (NAS) based on date (Before 01 Jan 2015). Yes I know the code says 2017 but once I get it working on test then I'll change the date and run on prod.
#Original file path
$path = "UNC Path"
#Destination file path
$destination = "Different UNC Path"
#It makes a filelist of what's inside the $path path
Foreach($file in (Get-ChildItem $path)) {
#If the lastwrite time is before the given date
If($file.LastWriteTime -lt "01/01/2017") {
#It copies the file to the destination
Copy-Item -Path $file.fullname -Destination $destination -Force } }
It copies the contents of folders fine but not the folders. I think I'm missing a -recurse but putting it after Get-ChildItem $path didn't work.
I plan to get this working then add a Remove-Item line to remove all the old items from the file server.
Thoughts? Suggestions of better ways to accomplish this?
Thanks,

Answer 1

I think you're just missing the -Recurse from Get-ChildItem, but I would do it like so:
Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -Recurse `
| Where-Object { $_.LastWriteTime -lt '2017-01-01' } `
| ForEach-Object {
Copy-Item -Path $_.FullName -Destination ($_.FullName.Replace($source,$destination)) -Force;
}
If you've got hidden or system files to copy, you'll also want the -Force parameter on Get-ChildItem.
Actually, you might need to do this:
Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -Recurse `
| Where-Object { $_.LastWriteTime -lt '2017-01-01' } `
| ForEach-Object {
if ($_.PSIsContainer -and !(Test-Path($_.FullName.Replace($source,$destination)) {
mkdir ($_.FullName.Replace($source,$destination));
}
else {
Copy-Item -Path $_.FullName -Destination ($_.FullName.Replace($source,$destination)) -Force;
}
}