Try the File Copy Writer. Seems like that would be more applicable here.

Thank you for your response. I switched it to FileCopyWriter, however it created a folder called PATH . You cannot leave the value blank as far as I can see (see attached). Is there a User Parameter I should be selecting?

I am going to try the following settings:

I need to set Feature Type Names as Subfolders to Yes, otherwise the files are NOT removed from the source. Yes, it is set as move and not a copy. Still copies the files to a subfolder in the root instead of just dropping the files in the root of the share.

I know this is an older post but I was successfully able to accomplish a top level copy/move of a file.

I added an AttributeManger just before my Writer and added the two following attributes.
 

 
Set Writer parameters as follows: 
       ** I want to Copy but the File Operation can be set to Move for a Move use case.

 
...and connected the attributes as shown here.
 

Result - No sub folder
 

Hope this helps others.

 

Great ​@dustin 

Good find ​@keitho ! Thanks for sharing. I’ve always been a little confused by this.