How to copy all files by specified extension to another location recursively

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I was trying the accepted solution here: https://serverfault.com/questions/194827/writing-a-powershell-script-to-copy-files-with-certain-extension-from-one-folder/223014#223014 But it doesnt work, and my comment on the accepted solution is not getting a response.

I am trying to copy all pictures I have in my Pictures drive (only PNG, JPG, without the video files) to a different drive, but having no luck.

Ideally I want to copy recursively, but to a flat destination (not mirroring the source sub-directories)

I tried this command: Copy-Item -path "C:\Users\genadi\Pictures\" -include "*.JPG", "*.PNG" -Destination "D:\" with and without -recurse but nothing happens.

Ideally, I want a script that will 1) reduce original size of all JPG and PNG pictures (including all sub-folders) and 2) copy the reduced size to specified destination.

Currently my originals are about 20GB, I need to fit them on a flash drive for display/printing purposes etc. and easily repeat this when needed (hence why script would be nice).

spacenomyous

That's because the object name returned by the cmdlet doesn't include the extension, you need to append \*. I'm not sure if Copy-Item allows you to "collapse" the destination directory, so I would use Get-ChildItem with -Recurse and pipe it to Copy-Item

Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\Users\genadi\Pictures\*" -Include *.jpg,*.png -Recurse | Copy-Item -Destination D:\

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