Any way to show full error message?

Question

Hi,

I am writing a simple PowerShell script to dump all the folders/files permissions under a top level directory via its UNC path. I notice if I don't have access to a subdirectory, it errors out and continues but the path shown in the error message is partial (missing the middle part). Is there a way to show the full path of the directory/file that I am lack of permission? For example, below it does not show the full path for "\fileserver\co...gment Reporting".

Get-ChildItem : An unexpected network error occurred.
At C:\script\dumpdirperm.ps1:10 char:15
+ ... olderPath = Get-ChildItem -Directory -Path $PATH_TOP  -Recurse -Force ...
+                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ReadError: (\\fileserver\co...gment Reporting:String) [Get-ChildItem], IOException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DirIOError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetChildItemCommand

Thank you.

Answer 1

You could try wrapping the Get-ChildItem in a try/catch:

Try{
  Get-ChildItem . . . -ErrorAction STOP
}
Catch{
  # do something with the Error Object here
  # maybe something like this to get the
  # target:
  $_.TargetObject
}