The property 'Name' cannot be found on this object. Verify that the property exists

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My script is working, but I'm getting this error:

The property 'Name' cannot be found on this object. Verify that the property exists.

I'm looping to copy folders. Any idea what is going on?

    $source50 = "c:\folder\"
    $destination50 = "c:\folder1\"

    for ($i = 1; $i -le 7; $i++) {
        $d = ((Get-Date).AddDays( + $i))
        $d2 = $d.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd")
        $v = Get-ChildItem $source50 -Recurse -Include "$d2"
 foreach ($file in $v) 
      {

               if ( Test-Path  $v.FullName)


                 {  
                    if (-not (Test-Path -Path $destination50$d4)){
                    New-Item -ItemType directory -Path $destination50$d4 

                    }


                     Write-Output "Copy ok " $v.FullName     
                     $bd= Copy-Item $v.FullName -Destination $destination50$d4 
                     break 


                  }

       }

The code is giving the error:

ok C:\folder\2017-12-27
ok C:\folder\2017-12-28
The property 'Name' cannot be found on this object. Verify that the property
exists.
At line:16 char:11
+       if ($v.Name -eq $d2) {
+           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], PropertyNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PropertyNotFoundStrict

ok C:\folder\2017-12-30
The property 'Name' cannot be found on this object. Verify that the property
exists.

check $v.GetType(). I suspect that you are finding more than one file. — EBGreen
what is $v returning? Is it returning only one? I do not think so. Secondly, if yes , then hit a gettype with that and see it. — Ranadip Dutta
@EBGreen Yes, I'm hiring more than one folder. I do not understand the mistake The property 'Name' cannot be found on this object. Verify that the property exists. $v.GetType Name DirectoryInfo , (System.IO.FileSys... — Jorge Miguel
If you are getting more than one file then $v is an array of file objects. The file objects in the array individually each have a .Name property but the array itself does not. To access the .Name property of each individual File Object that is in the array you would need to use a loop ti iterate through each File Object in the array. — EBGreen
Run under the debugger in ISE and you can learn and debug much about your results and how to access their members. — Kory Gill

M.Pinto M.Pinto · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-26T21:29:04

the $v.Name throw exception because its an array object and not "System.IO." that has the property Name.

try using this code:

$source50 = "c:\folder\"
$destination50 = "c:\folder1\"

for ($i = 1; $i -le 7; $i++)
{
    $d = ((Get-Date).AddDays( + $i))
    $d2 = $d.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd")
    $v = Get-ChildItem  $source50 -Recurse -include "$d2"
    foreach($file in $v)
    {
        if ($file.Name -eq $d2)
        {
            Copy-Item $file.FullName -Destination $destination50 -Force
            Write-Host "ok" $file.FullName  | Out-File -FilePath  c:\folder\logggg.txt
        }
    }
}

The property 'Name' cannot be found on this object. Verify that the property exists

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