Copy-Item gets IOException when copying to the destination - powershell

Question

I'm getting an IOException when Copy-Item copies files to the destination even though the destination is clean. Meaning there are no files in the destination before the copy proceeds. The odd thing is that it does not throw the error with all the files and the file it had an issue with copying does get copied. I'd be a lot easier if it just didn't work.
The code used to do the copying does it such a manner that it creates the current directory structure of the source path at the destination location.
Get-ChildItem $SourcePath -Recurse -Include "$FilePattern" | Foreach-Object {
$destDir = Split-Path ($_.FullName -replace [regex]::Escape($SourcePath), $dstfolder)
if (!(Test-Path $destDir)) {
New-Item -ItemType directory $destDir -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Out-Null
sleep 1
}
Copy-Item $_ -Destination $destDir -Force -ErrorAction Ignore -Verbose | Write-Output
}
The actual error message is
VERBOSE: Performing operation "Copy File" on Target "Item: \\EPM111242ND\C$\
HypStaging\Objects\Applications\Vision\Plan1\Plan1.otl Destination:
C:\Users\epmadmin\Documents\Backups\Monday\Full\Objects\Applications\Vision\
Plan1\Plan1.otl". The process cannot access the file 'C:\Users\epmadmin\
Documents\Backups\Monday\Full\Objects\Applications\Visio n\Plan1\Plan1.otl'
because it is being used by another process.
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Copy-Item], IOException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.IO.IOException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.CopyItemCommand
+ PSComputerName : localhost
It seems to be the destination file that its having an issue with which doesn't exist until it gets copied. Oddly the file is there when I check it. So I tried -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue and -Ignore and both still produce the error message. I was think of maybe putting in a try catch statement but I'm not sure that'll suppress the message.

Answer 1

try this
Get-ChildItem $SourcePath -Recurse -Include "$FilePattern" | % {
$destDir = Split-Path ($_.FullName -replace [regex]::Escape($SourcePath), $dstfolder);
New-Item -ItemType directory $destDir -Force;
Copy-Item $_.fullname -Destination $destDir -Force
}