Powershell's Get-ChildItem cannot see OneDrive's Online-Only files
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21-12-2019 - |
Question
How to retrieve in Powershell the file info of Windows 8.1's special kind of OneDrive files, the Online-only files?
While Windows Explorer provides the typical file info (like date modified, file type, and size) for all files on OneDrive, Powershell's Get-ChildItem cmdlet only "sees" those OneDrive files, that are available offline.
Solution
Use Get-ChildItem -Force
and you'll find also those items which are not available offline.
They are available as hidden files, so you need your command to show hidden files.
If I compare the attributes, on my computer, for files which are available offline and those which are online only, I can see the following:
Offline:
Archive
Online only:
Hidden, System, Archive, SparseFile, ReparsePoint, Offline
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