Powershell getting full path information - powershell

Question

I have a directory called Videos. Inside this directory, are a bunch of sub directories of various cameras. I have a script that will check each of the various cameras, and delete recordings older than a certain date.
I am having a bit of trouble getting the full directory information for the cameras. I am using the following to get it:
#Get all of the paths for each camera
$paths = Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\Videos\" | Select-Object FullName
And then I loop through each path in $paths and delete whatever I need to:
foreach ($pa in $paths) {
# Delete files older than the $limit.
$file = Get-ChildItem -Path $pa -Recurse -Force | Where-Object { $_.PSIsContainer -and $_.CreationTime -lt $limit }
$file | Remove-Item -Recurse -Force
$file | Select -Expand FullName | Out-File $logFile -append
}
When I run the script, I am getting errors such as:
#{FullName=C:\Videos\PC1-CAM1}
Get-ChildItem : Cannot find drive. A drive with the name '#{FullName=C' does not exist.
At C:\scripts\BodyCamDelete.ps1:34 char:13
+ $file = Get-ChildItem -Path $pa -Recurse -Force | Where-Object { $_.PSIsCont ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (#{FullName=C:String) [Get-ChildItem], DriveNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : DriveNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetChildItemCommand
Is there a way to strip that #{FullName= off of the Path? I think that may be what the issue is.

Answer 1

In your case $pa is an object with a FullName property. The way you would access that would be this.
$file = Get-ChildItem -Path $pa.FullName -Recurse -Force | Where-Object { $_.PSIsContainer -and $_.CreationTime -lt $limit }
However it would just be simpler to change only this line and leave
$paths = Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\Videos\" | Select-Object -ExpandProperty FullName
-ExpandProperty will just return the string instead of the object that Select-Object was returning.

Answer 2

You are nearly there. What you want is the -ExpandProperty argument for Select-Object. This will return the value of that property, instead of a FileInfo object with one property, that property being FullName. This should resolve it for you:
$paths = Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\Videos\" | Select-Object -ExpandProperty FullName
Edit: Looks like Matt beat me to it by a minute.