Copy-Item Exclude one dir - powershell

Question

I want to copy the content of a Folder and exclude "Cookies".
I have tried some of the provided solutions to similar questions but they didn't work for me.
$excludes = "Cookies"
New-Item -Path $newdir -Type Directory -Name "AppData"
Copy-Item -Path (Get-Item -Path $path"\AppData\*" -Exclude ($excludes)).FullName -Destination $newdir"\AppData" -Recurse -Force
I want to only copy the content of the directory, excluding 1 folder.
I'm using PowerShell V5.1

Answer 1

I wrote this for daily use and packaged it in the script module, it maintains all the directory structure and supports wildcards:
function Copy-Folder {
[CmdletBinding()]
param(
[Parameter(Mandatory)]
[String]$FromPath,
[Parameter(Mandatory)]
[String]$ToPath,
[string[]] $Exclude
)
if (Test-Path $FromPath -PathType Container) {
New-Item $ToPath -ItemType Directory -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Out-Null
Get-ChildItem $FromPath -Force | ForEach-Object {
# avoid the nested pipeline variable
$item = $_
$target_path = Join-Path $ToPath $item.Name
if (($Exclude | ForEach-Object { $item.Name -like $_ }) -notcontains $true) {
if (Test-Path $target_path) { Remove-Item $target_path -Recurse -Force }
Copy-Item $item.FullName $target_path
Copy-Folder -FromPath $item.FullName $target_path $Exclude
}
}
}
}
Just call the Copy-Folder -FromPath 'fromDir' -ToPath 'destDir' -Exclude Cookies
The -FromPath and -ToPath can be omitted,
Copy-Folder fromDir destDir -Exclude Cookies

Answer 2

This code is invalid Get-Item -Path $path"\AppData\*", PowerShell can't concatenate the variable and the string. Change the code to:
$excludes = "Cookies"
New-Item -Path $newdir -Type Directory -Name "AppData"
# Join the path correctly
$joinedPath = Join-Path $path "AppData\*"
Copy-Item -Path (Get-Item -Path $joinedPath -Exclude ($excludes) -Directory).FullName -Destination $newdir"\AppData" -Recurse -Force
For info only: Be aware that the -Exclude switch only works when a wildcard is included in the path (which is done correctly in the question). Source:
-Exclude
Specifies, as a string array, an item or items that this cmdlet excludes in the operation. The value of this parameter qualifies the Path parameter. Enter a path element or pattern, such as *.txt. Wildcard characters are permitted. The Exclude parameter is effective only when the command includes the contents of an item, such as C:\Windows*, where the wildcard character specifies the contents of the C:\Windows directory.
Hope that helps.

Answer 3

$destName = "C:\Test Folder"
$target = "Folder"
$exclude = "Bad Folder"
Get-ChildItem $target | Where-Object {$_.BaseName -notin $exclude} | Copy-Item -Destination $destName -Recurse -Force
This should work. You can set exclude to be multiple names if you want to exclude more than one folder or file. If you only want files, -Directory would need to be added to Get-ChildItem. Copy-Item and exclude folders I based myself off this previous answer