I have been puzzling with this problem for too long and I hope someone can help. I created a script that at a certain moment copies a directory to another directory.

The values of the directories are ok, the rights on the directories are ok. I added the code of the entire function.
The $oldDir and $newDir contain the right values at execution of the Move-Item cmdlet but the force command doesn't work.
Powershell isn't case-sensitive but I even tried to change the -Force to - force but as I expected that doesn't solve the problem.

This is the error I receive:
VERBOSE: Performing operation "Move Directory" on Target "Item: E:\TEST\Display\ZORG\6300159 Destination:
E:\TEST\Display\ZORG\630\6300159".
Move-Item : Cannot create a file when that file already exists.
At E:\TEST\ImageConversion1.1.ps1:433 char:16
+                         Move-Item  <<<< $oldDir $newDir -Force -Verbose

Function Reorganise-Folders($s, $d){
	If($s.length -and $d.length -gt 0){
		For($i = 0; $i -lt $s.length; $i++){
			If((Check-Directories $s[$i]) -ne 0){ exit 0}
			If((Check-Directories $d[$i]) -ne 0){ exit 0}
		
			$arraySourcedirs = Get-ChildItem $s[$i] | Where { $_.attributes -eq "Directory" }
			
			If($arraySourcedirs.length -gt 0){
				Foreach($item in $arraySourcedirs){
					# Converteren van arrayitem naar string
					[string] $dir = $item
					
					If($dir.length -gt 3){
 
						$newName = $dir.Substring(0,3);
						
 
						$oldDir = $s[$i] + "\" + $dir
						$newDir = $d[$i] + "\" + $newName
						
 
						If(!(Test-Path $newDir)){
							# Als deze niet bestaat maak het nieuwe pad aan
							New-Item $newDir -type directory
						}
						
# THIS IS THE PROBLEM AREA
						Move-Item $oldDir $newDir -Force
					}
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

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