Copy Documents Between Two Libraries With Metadata Using PowerShell

The PowerShell script below shows you how to copy files and their metadata from one library to another.

Keywords: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, PowerShell

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

#get source list and destination list

$web = get-spWeb  "http://targetURL/"

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

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

#get the content type

$ct = $srcList.ContentTypes["TargetCT"]

#get the root folder and items/files

$srcRootFolder = $srcList.RootFolder

$srcItems = $srcRootFolder.files

#iterate over files and copy them over with properties.

foreach($srcItem in $srcItems)

{

      Try

      {

             #copy over the files

             $sBytes = $srcItem.OpenBinary()

             $dstItem = $dstList.RootFolder.Files.Add($srcItem.Name, $sBytes, $true).Item

           

            #copy over files properties

            foreach($spField in $ct.Fields)

        {

          if ($spField.ReadOnlyField -ne $True )

          {

              $dstItem[$spField.InternalName] = $srcItem.Item[$spField.InternalName];

          }

             

        }

     

        $dstItem.Update()

      }

      Catch [system.exception]

      {

             $_.Exception.Message

      }

     

      Finally

      {

             

      }

}