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Script Help - Moving old files

Hi,

I'm wondering if someone could help me. I'm looking for assistance in script creation.

At the moment I have a drive full of files. What I'm going to do is create an archive drive.

What I would like to do is move all the files that were last accessed over 4 years ago to this new drive but maintain the directory structure. So they are moved to the same directory but in a new location.

I can locate the files using this script

get-childitem G:\ -Exclude CaseTracking,Sage50 -rec -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | where {!$_.PSIsContainer -AND $_.lastAccessTime -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-1460)} | select-object FullName, LastWriteTime | export-csv -notypeinformation -delimiter '|' -path c:\temp\file.csv

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Just wondering if someone could help me modifying the script to help me achieve what I am after?

Thanks

Meir Rivkin

change $sourceDir and $archiveDir before running the script.

cls
$archiveDir = "c:\delete_archive\"
$sourceDir = "g:\"
$files = get-childitem $sourceDir -Exclude CaseTracking,Sage50 -rec -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | where {!$_.PSIsContainer -AND $_.lastAccessTime -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-10)} | select-object FullName, LastWriteTime

$files | %{
	$file = $_.FullName.ToLower()
	$archive = $file.Replace($sourceDir.ToLower() , $archiveDir.ToLower())
	New-Item -ItemType directory -Path ([System.IO.Path]::GetDirectoryName($archive)) -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
	Copy-Item $file -Destination $archive -Force 
}

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