Powershell - Listing folder age (path too long error).

[Koldov]

Managed to find the following script to give me a rough idea of what to archive over the summer 'holidays'....

 

Get-ChildItem -Path E:\Staff$ -Recurse | Select-Object FullName, LastWriteTime , LastAccessTime, Length | Export-Csv -Path C:\Reports\folderage.csv -Encoding ascii -NoTypeInformation

 

Although it completes, it is giving me quite a few errors (some access denied which I will look into) but most complaining about long path names!

 

 

Is there any 'SIMPLE' way around this (bearing in mind I cannot code)?

 

It's not even giving me enough information to find out where these folders are....

[Arthur]

Install NTFSSecurity PowerShell module.

 

Install-Module -Name NTFSSecurity

 

Then run...

 

[color="#FF0000"]Get-ChildItem2[/color] -Path E:\Staff$ -Recurse | Select-Object FullName, LastWriteTime , LastAccessTime, Length | Export-Csv -Path C:\Reports\folderage.csv -Encoding ascii -NoTypeInformation

 

Get-ChildItem2 can cope with long file paths.

[HPlum78]

From memory if you are using wps 5.1 or later do the following

Set-ItemProperty 'HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem' -Name 'LongPathsEnabled' -value 1

 

That should fix the std cmdlet

Edited July 11, 2019 by HPlum78