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I have a backup script that copies several directories of files to a backup location. Unfortunately, not all of the files in the folder are accessible. What the history is, is that they were archived, and what's left is a filename with a grey x on it. When I try to copy it, I get the following message:

Copy-Item : Access to the path 'E:BackupLocDOzOLD_Under Review for NOT USED_keep for now2006-06N.doc' is denied.

At C:UsersmeDocumentspowershellFilesBackup.ps1:13 char:4

+    Copy-Item -Path $SourcePath -Destination $DestinationPath -Force - ...

+    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : PermissionDenied: (N.doc:FileInfo) [Copy-Item], UnauthorizedAccessException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CopyDirectoryInfoItemUnauthorizedAccessError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.CopyItemCommand

Yes, it's complaining at the To Location, not the From Location. I have opened up the directory/files so it's not read only, but still get this.

Also, getting through these copy errors takes a really long time. If I could avoid trying to copy these files in the first place, it would be much quicker. There's probably 200 of these files that are archived.

However, I'm copying the folder, not the filenames individually. There are ones that aren't archived in that folder. There isn't a plan to clean them up. I'm trying to identify when an error occurs, but it's only hitting my breakpoint if $error.Exception -ne $null statement after it writes the errors to screen and takes forever failing (see comment).

Any idea how I can either filter out the ones that are archived, or grab them and check them against an array or list so I don't get an error message? I haven't figured out how to find them as they happen since it's copying the entire folder.

I was looking at error checking during copy-item but I don't see how to apply that to my issue.

This is the copy method:

function CopyFileToFolderUNC($SourcePath, $DestinationPath){

   if(-Not (Test-Path $SourcePath)) 

   {

      $global:ErrorStrings.Add("Exception: No such path, $SourcePath;;  ")

      write-output  "++ Error: An error occured during copy operation. No such path, $SourcePath ++"

   }

   Copy-Item -Path $SourcePath -Destination $DestinationPath -Force -Recurse -errorVariable errors 

   foreach($error in $errors)

   {

        if ($error.Exception -ne $null)

        {

            $global:ErrorStrings.Add("Exception: $($error.Exception);;  ")

            write-output  "++ Error: An error occured during copy operation. Exception: $($error.Exception) ++" #this breakpoint is hit after giving errors on screen and taking a long time/failing to copy files it can't reach

        }

        write-output  "Error: An error occured during copy operation. Exception: $($error.Exception)"

    }

}

To me it looks like the files you describe are Off-line files.

In your function you can test if that is the case using something like this:

function CopyFileToFolderUNC($SourcePath, $DestinationPath){

    if(-Not (Test-Path $SourcePath)) {

        $global:ErrorStrings.Add("Exception: No such path, $SourcePath;;  ")

        Write-Output  "++ Error: An error occured during copy operation. No such path, $SourcePath ++"

    }



    # test if maybe we are dealing with an off-line file here

    if ((Get-Item -Path $SourcePath).Attributes -band 4096) {  # or use the enum name 'Offline'

        # or use .Net:

        # [System.IO.File]::GetAttributes($SourcePath) -band 4096

        Write-Output  "Did not copy: File '$SourcePath' is currently off-line. "

    }

    else {

        # the file is not off-line, so proceed with the copy

        Copy-Item -Path $SourcePath -Destination $DestinationPath -Force -Recurse -errorVariable errors 

        foreach($error in $errors)  {

            if ($error.Exception) {

                $global:ErrorStrings.Add("Exception: $($error.Exception);;  ")

                Write-Output  "++ Error: An error occured during copy operation. Exception: $($error.Exception) ++" #this breakpoint is hit after giving errors on screen and taking a long time/failing to copy files it can't reach

            }

            Write-Output  "Error: An error occured during copy operation. Exception: $($error.Exception)"

        }

    }

}

See FileAttributes Enum for all possible attribute values.

Hope that helps