Hello,

I have a task of copying files. I want to have the errors still show up in the error output, but I want the task to continue and finish out. Example: we had one file that had a permissions issue, which then failed the whole task and stopped the job. I would like the task to report that permissions issue but then continue on instead of stopping. It is a one task that I am running, so there is no continuing onto another task.

I have thought about unchecking permission denied in the On Error tab, but am not sure if it would report the "error" in the error output.

Thank you,

Heather

Are you looping through a list or doing a copy with a wildcard?

We are copying with a wild card. We are basically copying all of our production files to our dev server, in order to have updated information on the dev server.

In the Flow tab of that Task you can set On Error->Continue.

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But that's continue with the next task, not continue with the current task of copying files, after logging the file that caused the error. I suspect a powershell or .net script is going to be needed for this.

I guess you know this, but Robocopy can do all of this including the logging of failed files in one line of code

Thanks Thomas, robocopy is powerful and I admit I forgot all about it. In the meantime I came up with this. I tested by copying one of the files to the destination folder and making it readonly. It worked as expected. $source is passed in as a job variable. I am not a powershell expert so I'm sure some improving could be done. Anyway, food for thought.

Thanks Thomas, robocopy is powerful and I admit I forgot all about it. In the meantime I came up with this. I tested by copying one of the files to the destination folder and making it readonly. It worked as expected. $source is passed in as a job variable. I am not a powershell expert so I'm sure some improving could be done. Anyway, food for thought.

#  Start

#
# Copy .txt files from the source folder to the dest folder.
# Logs to $source\test.log
#
Param(
  [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
  [string] $source
)

$files = $source + "\*.txt" 
$dest  = $source + "\test"
$log   = $source + "\test.log"

# build a litst of the files to copy
get-childitem -Path $files | foreach {
  try {
    copy $_.fullname $dest -errorAction stop

    # If control makes it here then the copy was successful
    echo "$_ copied OK to $dest" | out-file -append $log
  }
  catch {
    # if the copy failed, log why
    $ErrorMessage = $Error[0].Exception.Message
    echo "ERROR - $_" | out-file -append $log
  }
  # Try to copy the next file
}

#  end

Hi Gary, this might be interesting to add in the new Task repository so it can be easily used by other users. Have you looked at the Task repository?

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Not yet, as we are not on that version. When we get there I will have some code to contribute and look forward to other's tips and tricks also!