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Hi all I require assistance with my Powershell script(I'm new to Powershell). What I'm trying to accomplish is currently I have a script setup to Convert RTF documents to PDF's and save it to a directory. What I want my script to do now is, when my script searches Recursively through my source directory, if a RTF is found, I wish to create the matching directory that it was found in, in my destination directory and save the file in the destinations new directory.

So as follows:
If a RTF is found in the following directory C:userstestuserfolder1newuser , my current script will convert the documents and save it in C:usersfolder2. So if a file was found in the newuser directory, I want to create a newuser directory in C:usersfolder2newuser and save the converted document in the directory, Please assist, I'm new to powershell.

$source = "C:userstestuserfolder1"

$destination = "C:userstestuserfolder2"





$word_app = New-Object -ComObject word.application







#Convert RTF to PDF



Get-ChildItem -Path $source -Filter *.rtf? -Recurse | ForEach-Object {



    $document = $word_app.Documents.Open($_.FullName)



    $pdf_filename = "$destination$($_.BaseName).pdf"



    $document.SaveAs([ref] $pdf_filename, [ref] 17)



    $document.Close()



}



$word_app.Quit()

Then you will need to use a combination of Split-Path and String.Replace to build a new path from your source file's path and create the new folder and file. A caveat of using String.Replace is that it is case sensitive so your paths need to be converted to a common case, like lower case. An example of using Split-Path and String.Replace is below:

$Source = "C:UserstestuserFolder1"

$Destination = "C:UserstestuserFolder2"



$ExampleFile = $Source + "newuserthisfile.rtf"



#Use a combination of Split-Path and String.Replace

#Split-Path will take the full path to your file, and return just the parent folder path.

#String.Replace will then remove the $Source path from the remaining path.

#Finally we concatenate the new path with the $Destination path to get our new folder path.



$NewFolder = Split-Path $ExampleFile

Write-Host $NewFolder

# Output: C:UserstestuserFolder1newuser



$NewFolder = $NewFolder.ToLower().Replace($Source.ToLower(), "")

Write-Host $NewFolder

# Output: newuser



$NewFolder = $Destination + $NewFolder

Write-Host $NewFolder

# Output: C:UserstestuserFolder2newuser



#Or, more simply:

$NewFolder = $($Destination + $(Split-Path $ExampleFile).ToLower().Replace($Source.ToLower(), ""))

Write-Host $NewFolder

# Output: C:UserstestuserFolder2newuser



#Create the folder with ErrorAction = SilentlyContinue so that it doesn't throw an error if the folder already exists:

New-Item -Path $NewFolder -Type directory -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue



#Or, combine everything together and you have:

New-Item -Path $($Destination + $(Split-Path $ExampleFile).ToLower().Replace($Source.ToLower(), "")) -Type directory -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

Your new code would look like this:

$source = "C:userstestuserfolder1"

$destination = "C:userstestuserfolder2"



$word_app = New-Object -ComObject word.application



#Convert RTF to PDF



Get-ChildItem -Path $source -Filter *.rtf? -Recurse | ForEach-Object {



    $document = $word_app.Documents.Open($_.FullName)



    #Create new path and filename from source path and filename

    $pdf_filename = $($Destination + $(Split-Path $ExampleFile).ToLower().Replace($Source.ToLower(), "")) + "" + $_.BaseName + ".pdf"



    #Create new folder tree

    New-Item -path $(Split-Path $pdf_filename) -Type directory -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue



    $document.SaveAs([ref] $pdf_filename, [ref] 17)



    $document.Close()



}



$word_app.Quit()