how to copy a folder and its content on a mapped drive using powershell

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_{Wednesday, October 15, 2014 9:44 AM | 1 vote}

Hi all
i am having problem in copying a recent folder from local to remote pc using net use. Here is my code

     $local = "C:\Projects\Deployments\ ;
     $path = "\myip\Deployments";
     $recent =  Get-ChildItem -Path $local | Sort-Object -Property LastWriteTime | Select-Object -Last 1
     net use B: $path  /user:username password 
copy-item -path $recent  -destination "B:\ -recurse -force

    the above script works perfect if i take out $recent line and if i specify exact folder name in $local    
      e.g  $local = "C:\Projects\Deployments\2014-10-13" ;

i am getting a strange error when i run my script, the directory where i am running this script from it tries to look in that folder the recent folder which needs copying.

All replies (7)

_{Wednesday, October 15, 2014 11:44 AM ✅Answered}

i sorted it out, all i have to do is i write

copy-item -path $recent.Fullname 

_{Wednesday, October 15, 2014 9:48 AM}

this script works perfect  

     $local = "C:\Projects\Deployments\2014-10-13" ;
     $path = "\myip\Deployments";

     net use B: $path  /user:username password 
     copy-item -path $local  -destination "B:\ -recurse -force

All i would like to do is to copy a recent folder from deployments and paste on the the remote path.

_{Wednesday, October 15, 2014 10:16 AM}

if i do write-host $recent 

it does shows me that it has stored the latest folder in $recent 

but as soon as copy command gets executed i dont know why it shows me the location where i am running the script from and tries to look for the recent folder in that location.

_{Wednesday, October 15, 2014 11:16 AM}

Hi mate,

Have you tried piping the output from the "$recent =  Get-ChildItem -Path $local | Sort-Object -Property LastWriteTime | Select-Object -Last 1" into "copy-item"?  I used the commands below and it seemed to work fine:

$recent | copy-item -destination "B:" -recurse -force

_{Wednesday, October 15, 2014 11:50 AM | 1 vote}

Try:

$path = "\\myip\Deployments"

if (!(Test-Path -Path "B:\")) { 
    "Mapping drive 'B:' to $path"
    net use B: $path  /user:username password 
} else {
    "Drive 'B:' already mapped"
}

$local = "C:\Projects\Deployments\2014-10-13" 
$recent =  (Get-ChildItem -Path $local | Sort-Object -Property LastWriteTime | Select-Object -Last 1).FullName

"Copying '$recent' to 'B:\'" 
Copy-Item -path $recent -destination "B:\" -recurse -force

$recent was storing the folder name. For this to work, it needs to store the folder's "FullName" which is it's path + name..

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_{Friday, November 21, 2014 7:18 PM}

It worked like a charm. Thank you very much.

Brajesh

Regards, Kumar Brajesh

_{Tuesday, June 18, 2019 3:36 AM}

It worked for me. Thank you very much