If you add -Force to your command it will overwrite the existing files and you won’t see the error. -Recurse will replace all items within each folder and all subfolders. Copy-Item “C:\realFolder\*” “C:\realFolder_new” -Recurse -Force
Both of those are solid answers for powershell, but it would probably be far more easy to just leverage Robocopy (MS Supplied robust copy application). robocopy “C:\SourceDir\” “C:\DestDir\” /MIR would accomplish the same thing.
If you just want to see that in console, use the -verbose switch: copy-item -path $from -destination $to -verbose If you want to get a list of files or directories: $files = copy-item -path $from -destination $to -passthru | ?{$_ -is [system.io.fileinfo]}
I too found the documentation less than helpful. I did some tests to see how the -Container parameter works in conjunction with -Recurse when copying files and folders. Note that -Container means -Container: $true. This is the file structure I used for the examples: # X:. # ├───destination # └───source # │ source.1.txt # │ … Read more
It seems like a much better solution to just use BitsTransfer, it seems to come OOTB on most Windows machines with PowerShell 2.0 or greater. Import-Module BitsTransfer Start-BitsTransfer -Source $Source -Destination $Destination -Description “Backup” -DisplayName “Backup”