Move documents from one site another

Question

We are using SP 2013 on-prem, and I am writing some functionality in c# to move document from one site to another, within the same site collection.

I have read a litte about the SPFile.MoveTo, but it's samples are a bit confusing: some say they can only copy, and some that they can only move files within the same site; https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spfile.moveto.aspx

I am looking for samples where I can move a document from one document library to a document library on another site, and keep the metadata and versions log.

Answer 1

Yep, the "Send to" sends a copy to another location so you can do it again and again to distribute a copy of the master file to other sites.

Is this a one time move or will you need to do it over and over?

Sometimes a simplee copy / paste from each library's windows explorer works for users. (unless your trying to do something more complex)

SharePoint designer might have some actions to copy a document to a specified path if you want to go that route.

Records center sites are also rather sophisticated with routing documents to different parts of SharePoint based on rules, content types and other info.