HowTo:Get File Count after Export

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I was recently working on a project where I needed to export a large number of folders and documents from ProjectWise to a local folder. The folders were broken up into about 20 different folder hierarchies, each containing many projects. After exporting all of the files I needed to validate the number of files exported.

Document Count from ProjectWise

First, I would get a document count from ProjectWise. I will pipe the results of the Get-PWDocumentsBySearch cmdlet to the Measure-Object cmdlet. I will then pipe those results to the Select-Object to only get the information needed. The result is the number of documents contained in the provided folder.

# Get all documents in folder hierarchy.
Get-PWDocumentsBySearch -FolderPath 'Project' |
Measure-Object |
Select-Object Count

There were 13,844 documents returned for this folder hierarchy.

File Count from Windows Folder

Next, I would get a file count from the corresponding Windows folder. For this I will use the Get-ChildItem cmdlet and filter the results to only include files. I then pipe the results to the Measure-Object cmdlet. The result is the number of files contained in the Windows folder hierarchy. The Get-ChildItem will return both folders and files. We filtered on files. The following shows the returned mode types.

• Folder: ‘d—–‘
• Files: ‘-a—-‘

<# Get file count from Windows folder.
    Use the -Recurse switch parameter with the Get-ChildItem cmdlet
    to return files from the entire folder hierarchy.
#>
Get-ChildItem -Path 'C:\ProjectExport' -Recurse | 
Where-Object Mode -EQ '-a----' | 
Measure-Object | 
Select-Object Count

There were 11,492 documents returned for this folder hierarchy.

Observation

Obviously, there is a discrepancy between the two counts. 2,352 to be exact. I will need to determine which documents were not exported and why. That is a topic for another post.

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