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afierro97
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Oct 18, 2023
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Problems moving files from site to site | PnP Sharepoint

Hello! I have a file with all the paths to different files in different sites of my tenant that I need to move to a Specific Site in the same tenant, so I decided to use the PnP cmdlets for the job....
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    afierro97
    Nov 01, 2023

    In case someone has the same problem as me, this is how i solved the problem.

    When connecting I connect to the source site

    Connect-PnPOnline -Url "https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/Source Site"

    then, when you use the move command use it like this:

    $SourceFileURL= "/sites/mySite/folder/file.txt" #Site Relative URL from the current site
$TargetFileURL ="/sites/anotherSite/folder"
Move-PnPFile -SourceUrl $SourceFileURL -TargetUrl $TargetFileURL

    if u use /sites/<the name of the site> you will be able to move the files the any site you want

     

     

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LeonPavesic
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Oct 19, 2023

Hi afierro97,

Thanks for your question.

The problem you are facing is that the Copy-PnPFile cmdlet requires the source file to exist on the same site collection as the destination site collection. This is because the cmdlet uses the SharePoint migration infrastructure to copy the file.

You can try to use this script adapting it to your needs:

 

# Connect to the source site
Connect-PnPOnline -Url "https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/Source Site"

# Get the PnPFile object for the file that you want to move
$sourceFile = Get-PnPFile -Url "https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/Source Site/Documents/myfile.txt"

# Disconnect from the source site
Disconnect-PnPOnline

# Connect to the destination site
Connect-PnPOnline -Url "https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/destination Site"

# Copy the file from the source site to the destination site
Copy-PnPFile -SourceUrl $sourceFile.ServerRelativeUrl -TargetUrl "https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/destination Site/Documents"

 



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afierro97
Copper Contributor
Nov 01, 2023

In case someone has the same problem as me, this is how i solved the problem.

When connecting I connect to the source site

Connect-PnPOnline -Url "https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/Source Site"

then, when you use the move command use it like this:

$SourceFileURL= "/sites/mySite/folder/file.txt" #Site Relative URL from the current site
$TargetFileURL ="/sites/anotherSite/folder"
Move-PnPFile -SourceUrl $SourceFileURL -TargetUrl $TargetFileURL

if u use /sites/<the name of the site> you will be able to move the files the any site you want

 

 

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