How to have powershell use a else statement to search another folder

Question

I am trying to import some PST files into Outlook automatically, I currently am using the following script

Add-type -assembly "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook" | out-null 
$outlook = new-object -comobject outlook.application 
$namespace = $outlook.GetNameSpace("MAPI") 
dir “$env:USERPROFILE\appdata\local\microsoft\outlook\.pst” | % { 
$namespace.AddStore($_.FullName) }

I would like to add a else statement so that if the pst file is not found in the first location then it will check in "$env:USERPROFILE\Documents\Outlook Files"

Answer 1

For a single file, use Test-Path to verify if the file is in the location you expect, for example:

$pathA = "C:\path\to\my\file"
$pathB = "C:\path\to\another\file"

if(Test-Path $pathA){
  # do something with $pathA
}
else {
  # do something with $pathB
}

In your case you are using dir (an alias for Get-ChildItem) which returns all files in a folder matching the path/name specified. What you may want to do is to look for the files first in PathA and, if you don't find any, look in PathB:

$pathA = "C:\path\to\my\folder\*.pst"
$pathB = "C:\path\to\another\folder\*.pst"

$files = Get-ChildItem $pathA

if($files){
  # do something with $pathA
}
else {
  # do something with $pathB
}