When destination folder exists the right way of copying files is defined here Copy-Item 'C:\Source\*' 'C:\Destination' -Recurse -Force If destination folder doesn't exist, some files in the sour...

Is there any way to copy a really large file (from one server to another) in PowerShell AND display its progress? There are solutions out there to use Write-Progress in conjunction with looping to...

I am trying to recurse through a directory and copy it from A to B. That can be done with the following: Copy-Item C:\MyTest C:\MyTest2 –recurse I want to be able though to only copy new files (...

I'm trying to get PowerShell to copy files from a remote computer (on which I have admin rights through AD) to the local computer. It fails in the strangest place. Here's a snippet of the script: ...

I am using the PowerShell Copy-Item command to copy a directory with files to another location. I want to display all the files on the console that are getting copied so that I know the status of ...

I'm having a weird issue with using PowerShell to merge multiple csv files into one. I've done this plenty of time in the cmd prompt on in windows 7, but here the output only contains the earliest ...

I am trying to use Copy-Item from remote machine to another remote machine with the command: Copy-Item -Path "\\machine1\abc\123\log 1.zip" -Destination "\\machine2\\c$\Logs\" I am constantly ge...

Why does gci $from -Recurse | copy-item -Destination $to -Recurse -Force -Container not behave in the same way as copy-item $from $to -Recurse -Force ? I think it should be the same, but som...

I am copying files from One Windows machine to another using Copy-Item in Powershell script. But I want to wait till copy completes, Powershell Copy-Item is non-blocking call means, it just trigge...

When I run a recursive Copy-Item from a folder that has sub folders to a new folder that contains the same sub folders as the original, it throws an error when the subfolders already exist. How ca...

Consider this directory structure: C:\temp\A\file.txt C:\temp\B If I run the command Copy-Item "C:\temp\A" "C:\temp\B\A" -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction Stop I have C:\temp\A\file.txt C:\temp\B...

The reason for switching from batch files to powershell scripts is to improve error checking of the process. Does the cmdlet for copying have advantages in this regard? If a batch file alrea...

I am writing a script for MS PowerShell. This script uses the Copy-Item command. One of the optional arguments to this command is "-container". The documentation for the argument states that specif...

Does the -Filter or -Include parameter work for anyone when using Powershell 3.0? I've tried both of the following commands: Copy-Item -Path c:\temp -Include "*.TXT" -Destination C:\temp2 and C...

I have two machines Server A and Server B, and I want to copy all the files and folder tree from Server A to Server B using PowerShell. I have tried the command given below, but it copies only the...

Howdy, am trying to copy a file from IE cache to somewhere else. This works on w7, but not Vista Ultimate. In short: copy-item $f -Destination "$targetDir" -force (I also tried $f.fullname) The...