PowerShell Move-Item $filename

Basics are:

• Test-Path before you move it (file and destination)
• Move the file, ensure you have permission (force it to move)

so:

echo $targetdir
echo "$path$file"
if (!(Test-Path $targetdir)) {
    New-Item -ItemType directory $targetdir
}
if(Test-Path "$path$file") { 
    Move-Item "$path$file" $targetdir -Force
} else {
    echo "file does not exist"
}

If you loop over a collection you have to use the ".FullName" property of the object:

Get-ChildItem $path | ForEach-Object { Move-Item $_.FullName $targetdir -Force }

Does the target directory already exist? I believe Move-Item will fail if the target directory doesn't exist. If that's the case, you can simply test for existence of the directory beforehand and then create as necessary.

If (!(Test-Path -Path $targetdir)) {
    New-Item -ItemType directory -Path $targetdir
}

This worked for me. Thank you @TheMadTechnician. Hopes this helps everyone

$TimeStamp = Get-Date -Format "MM-dd-yyyy_hh-mm-ss"
$LogFile = Get-Date -Format "MM_dd_yyyy"

$path='C:\test\'
$targetDir = 'C:\test\Uploaded\'
$fileList = Get-ChildItem $path*.csv
If(!(Test-Path $TargetDir)){New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $TargetDir|Out-Null}
$fileList | Select -ExpandProperty Name | Out-File 'C:\test\list.txt'

$list = get-content C:\test\list.txt 
foreach ($file in $list)
{
    $ftp = "ftp://REMOVED/$file"
    "ftp url: $ftp"
    $webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
    $uri = New-Object System.Uri($ftp)
    "Uploading $file..."

    $succeeded = $true;
    &   {
    trap { $script:succeeded = $false; continue }
    $webclient.UploadFile($uri, $path+$file)
        }
if ($succeeded) 
        { 

        echo $file 'Was successfully uploaded!' $Timestamp >> logfile$LogFile.log
        move-Item  -path $path$file -destination $targetdir$Timestamp"_"$file
        #test-path $path$file
        } 

    else 
        { 

        echo $file 'Was not successfully uploaded, will retry later' $Timestamp >> logfile$LogFile.log

        }   


}

exit

How about this then:

ForEach($File in $List){
    Join-Path $path $file | Move-Item -Dest $Targetdir
}

Edit: Also... your creation of list.txt, it bothered me so I had to comment. Format-Table should be used for formatting text, not for selecting a value to output to a file. There's a better way to do that, consider this alternative:

Get-ChildItem "$path*.csv" | Select -ExpandProperty Name | Out-File $pathlist.txt

Since you say that $path = 'C:\test\' you are adding extra backslashes in there that may cause issues for some commands.

Edit2: Ok, if that doesn't work, why not work with the files themselves instead of outputting to a file, importing from that file, and then working with things.

$path='c:\test\'
$TargetDir = 'c:\test\NewDir'
$FileList = Get-ChildItem $path*.csv
If(!(Test-Path $TargetDir)){New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $TargetDir|Out-Null}
$FileList | Move-Item -Destination $TargetDir

Then if you really want a list of those file names just pipe $FileList to Select and then to Out-File

$FileList | Select -ExpandProperty Name | Out-File 'C:\Test\list.txt'

Here, look through this and see if there's anything you like. I made a few changes, such as declaring paths at the beginning for everything, I moved the WebClient object creation outside of the loop, and changed how things are displayed on screen. Plus I skip the entire exporting to text file and re-importing it.

$path = 'C:\test'
$ftpaddr = 'ftp://ftp.example.com/uploads'
$TimeStamp = Get-Date -Format "MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss tt"
$LogFile = Get-Date -Format "MM_dd_yyyy"

$LogDir = "C:\Test\Logs"
If(!(test-path $LogDir)){New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $LogDir | Out-Null}
$targetdir = 'C:\test\Uploaded'
If(!(test-path $targetdir)){New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $targetdir | Out-Null}

$list = Get-ChildItem -path $path\* -Include *.csv

$webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient

"ftp url: $ftpaddr"

foreach ($file in ($list|select -ExpandProperty Name))
{
    $uri = New-Object System.Uri(("$ftpaddr/$file"))

    Write-Host "Uploading $file... " -NoNewline -ForegroundColor White

    $succeeded = $true
    &   {
    trap { $script:succeeded = $false; continue }
    $webclient.UploadFile($uri, "$Path\$file")
        }

if ($succeeded) 
        {
        Write-Host "Success!" -ForegroundColor Green
        "$Timestamp`t$File was successfully uploaded!" | Out-File "$logdir\logfile$LogFile.log" -Append
        move-Item  -path "$path\$file" -destination $targetdir
        } 

    else 
        { 
        Write-Host "Failed! Will retry later." -ForegroundColor Red
        "$Timestamp`t$File was not successfully uploaded, will retry later" | Out-File "$logdir\logfile$LogFile.log" -Append
        }   

}