Copy Documents and Folders Between Two Libraries With Metadata Using PowerShell

The following PowerShell enables you to copy documents and folders between two SharePoint libraries.

Keywords: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, PowerShell

Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

function CopyFilesInFolder($srcFolder , $dstFolder)

{

      #get files inside srcFolder

      $srcItems = $srcFolder.files

      $nCount = $srcItems.Count

      $i= $nCount - 1

      #start copying files from srcFodler to dstFolder

      foreach($srcItem in $srcItems )

      {

            Try

            {

                  $srcItem.CopyTo($dstFolder.ServerRelativeUrl + "/" +  $srcItem.Name ,$true)

                  $newFileLoc =  $dstFolder.ServerRelativeUrl + "/" +  $srcItem.Name

                  Write-host $newFileLoc

                 

            }

            Catch [system.exception]

            {

                   $_.Exception.Message

            }

           

            Finally

            {

                   

            }

      }#end while

     

      #iterate over each subfolder inside $srcFolder

      #create equivalent subfolder under $dstFolde

      #call the CopyFilesInFolder

      foreach($srcSubFolder in  $srcFolder.SubFolders)

      {

            if($srcSubFolder.Name -ne "Forms")

            {

                  $dstSubFolder =  $dstFolder.SubFolders.Add($srcSubFolder.Name)

                  CopyFilesInFolder -srcFolder $srcSubFolder  -dstFolder $dstSubFolder

            }

           

      }

     

}#end function

#get source list  and destination list

$web = get-spWeb  "http://URl/"

$srcList = $web.Lists["srcLib" ]

$dstList = $web.Lists["dstLib"]

#get the root folder and items/files

$srcRootFolder = $srcList.RootFolder;

$dstRootFolder = $dstList.RootFolder;

CopyFilesInFolder -srcFolder $srcRootFolder  -dstFolder $dstRootFolder

Enjoy