Robocopy and Powershell

[access-mdb]

I was looking at this thread, looking for a parameter I wanted to change when I noticed that RG hadn't closed Outlook and this caused a problem. Now I might be teaching granddad to suck eggs, but I run my Robocopy in Powershell and run this via a batch file. And I have a little reminder to close Outlook (and Thunderbird) before continuing, having got fed up with waiting for the scripts to finish. All it is is as follows:

echo "Shut down Outlook and Thunderbird"
Pause
@ECHO OFF
PowerShell.exe -NoProfile -Command "& {Start-Process PowerShell.exe -ArgumentList '-NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File ""%~dpn0.ps1""' -Verb RunAs}"
PAUSE

Now others might well have a slightly more elegant solution to this and I'm happy to receive (polite) suggestions!

The PS script itself generates a dated logfile name and copies my (changed) files to various other disks and the cloud.

[RetiredGeek]

Access,

Why use a .bat at all do it all in PowerShell.

Get-Process "Outlook" |   
 Foreach-Object { $_.CloseMainWindow() | Out-Null } | 
 stop-process –force

How about those eggs!

HTH

[Paul T]

A neater solution would be to look for the Outlook and TB executables (tasklist /FI "imagename eq thunderbird.exe") and prompt the user if they are running.
Even better to do it in PowerShell (Get-Process thunderbird).

cheers, Paul

[Paul T]

Too quick!

Does "-force" save changes - probably app dependent?

cheers, Paul

[RetiredGeek]

Access,

Here's the entire thing in a tested PS Script:

Get-Process "Outlook" |   
 Foreach-Object { $_.CloseMainWindow() | Out-Null } | 
 stop-process -force -ErrorAction "SilentlyContinue"

RoboCopy.exe "G:\BEKDocs" "\\MYBOOKLIVE\CMShared\%COMPUTERNAME%\BEKDocs" /MIR /XJD /R:5 /W:15 /MT:32 /V /NP /XD "G:\BEKDocs\OneDrive" "G:\BEKDocs\diagnostics" "G:\BEKDocs\Images to Post" "G:\BEKDocs\Samsung" /IT /LOG+:G:\BEKDocs\Batch\BackupTasks\RoboCopyNAS.log

HTH

[access-mdb]

Well here's food for thought from you guys (as I expected!) The only reason I use a batch file is that I can just double click it in File Explorer and away it goes. When I try that with PS it doesn't - I'm probably missing something there. I'll try your PS script (with suitable changes of course!) when I next run the backup.