How to handle Copy-Item exceptions?
Add the tag "-errorAction stop" to the Copy-Item call, within a Try-Catch, like below. The errorAction throws an error which the Try-Catch can handle.
$filepathname = 'valid file path and name'$dest = '\DoesntExist\'try{ Copy-Item $filepathname $dest -errorAction stop Write-Host "Success"}catch{ Write-Host "Failure"}
Since PowerShell is based on .NET I would expect the exceptions that are defined for the CopyTo() and CreateSubdirectory() methods:
- ArgumentException
- ArgumentNullException
- DirectoryNotFoundException
- IOException
- NotSupportedException
- PathTooLongException
- SecurityException
- UnauthorizedAccessException
However, in PowerShell I would simply catch all exceptions indiscriminately (unless you want to handle specific scenarios):
try { Copy-Item ...} catch { $exception = $_ ...}