Watch Source Folder and Create and Move to Destination Folder

[DuaneH]

Hi There,

Can someone assist with my code below. It wont create the sub directory and move the .zip file to the destination folder. I need the script to watch for new .zip files, create a subfolder with the day number and move the .zip file to this new folder. Code below:

$ZipFileSearchFolder = "C:\TESTsearch"

$DestionationFolder = "C:\TESTdestination\2022"

$Filter = "*.zip"

if(-not (Test-Path $DestionationFolder))
{
New-Item -Path $DestionationFolder -ItemType Directory
}

$Watcher = New-Object IO.FileSystemWatcher $ZipFileSearchFolder, $Filter -Property @{
IncludeSubdirectories = $true
NotifyFilter = [IO.NotifyFilters]'FileName, LastWrite'
}
$OnCreated = Register-ObjectEvent $Watcher Created -SourceIdentifier FileCreated -Action {
$DayOfYear = (Get-Date).DayOfYear
$SourcePath = $Event.SourceEventArgs.FullPath
$SourceName = $Event.SourceEventArgs.Name
$File = Get-Item $SourcePath
$NewName = $File.BaseName+"-"+$DayOfYear+$File.Extension
Move-Item -Path $SourcePath -Destination $DestionationFolder\$NewName -Force -Verbose
}

Thanks

[#2]

@DuaneH It looks like there is a problem with the Destination path construction, try this

$NewName = "{0}-{1}{2}" -f ($File.BaseName), $DayOfYear, ($File.Extension)

Move-Item -Path $SourcePath -Destination (join-path $DestionationFolder $NewName) -Force -Verbose

This is working for me.

[#3 · Accepted solution]

@DuaneH 

Changed it a little to this:

$ZipFileSearchFolder = "C:\TESTsearch"

$DestionationFolder = "C:\TESTdestination\2022"

$Filter = "*.zip"

if(-not (Test-Path $DestionationFolder))
{
New-Item -Path $DestionationFolder -ItemType Directory
}

$Watcher = New-Object IO.FileSystemWatcher $ZipFileSearchFolder, $Filter -Property @{
IncludeSubdirectories = $true
NotifyFilter = [IO.NotifyFilters]'FileName, LastWrite'
}
$OnCreated = Register-ObjectEvent $Watcher Created -SourceIdentifier FileCreated -Action {
$DayOfYear = (Get-Date).DayOfYear
$SourcePath = $Event.SourceEventArgs.FullPath
$SourceName = $Event.SourceEventArgs.Name
$File = Get-Item $SourcePath
if (-not (Test-Path "$($DestionationFolder)\$($DayOfYear)")) {
New-Item -Path "$($DestionationFolder)\$($DayOfYear)" -ItemType Directory
}
$NewName = $File.BaseName+"-"+$DayOfYear+$File.Extension
Move-Item -Path $SourcePath -Destination "$($DestionationFolder)\$($DayOfYear)" -Force -Verbose
}

But @Jonathan_Allen has a nice looking solution as well ;) 

[#4]

@Harm_Veenstra  thanks so much that has fixed it, Cheers!