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Thread ID: 143103	2016-11-21 00:27:00	Powershell help please	Tony (4941)	Press F1

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1428981	2016-11-21 00:27:00	Can any one tell me why this isn't working as it should? $source = "H:\WRRA\Newsletter\Newsletter archive" $dest ="C:\Users\Tony\Desktop\Output" $ct=0 $fileList = Get-ChildItem $source -file -Recurse write-host "Count before:" $ct foreach ($file in $fileList) { $ct++ copy-Item $file.fullname $dest -Force } write-host "Count after:" $ct The source contains a bunch of folders + 1 file at the top level and those folders contain more folders and files. As written above, it only copies the 1 top level file, and "Count After" = 1. If I change the the Get-childitem parameter to -directory it works as it should - all the folders get copied , with a count of 262 - which is the folder count to the deepest level. It has to be something obvious, but I'm blowed if I can see it.	Tony (4941)
1428982	2016-11-21 00:39:00	You can only recurse directories, so what you need to do is walk the directories grabbing the files.	Kame (312)
1428983	2016-11-21 00:58:00	The help for get-childitem has an example: C:\PS>Get-Childitem -System -File -Recurse and gives this description: This command gets system files in the current directory and its subdirectories. Which would seem to imply it will get files as well as folders. I just tried exactly that command and I got heaps of "permission denied", but it did seem to be recovering files from nested folders.	Tony (4941)
1428984	2016-11-21 01:34:00	D'oh! My bad. I actually looked in the folders and they were all empty. The files must have all got deleted while I was messing around. So the script had actually worked as it should. I had a backup (of course) and after I restored, the script worked perfectly finding 973 files. It just goes to prove the old debugging adage - "If you can't find the problem you're looking in the wrong place." So -recurse will recover files as well as folders. Thanks.	Tony (4941)
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