Expand-Archive in powershell is failing to extract nested folders and files

Question

I have the following simple powershell to extract a zip folder (containing other folders and only log files) to a destination

$FolderPath = "C:\Temp\Whatever"

Expand-Archive -Path "$FolderPath\logs.zip" -DestinationPath "$FolderPath\logs"

Unfortunately this returns a whole bunch of errors like below....

Remove-Item : Cannot find path 'C:\Temp\Whatever\logs\1_Selenium SEPA-Test\Attempt1\1_Start VM's\Release\1_Initialize Agent.log' because it does not exist.
At C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive\Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive.psm1:410 char:46
+ ...                 $expandedItems | % { Remove-Item $_ -Force -Recurse }
+                                          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (C:\Temp\Whateve...alize Agent.log:String) [Remove-Item], ItemNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RemoveItemCommand

Remove-Item : Cannot find path 'C:\Temp\Whatever\logs\1_Selenium SEPA-Test\Attempt1\1_Start VM's\Release\1_Initialize Job.log' because it does not exist.
At C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive\Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive.psm1:410 char:46
+ ...                 $expandedItems | % { Remove-Item $_ -Force -Recurse }
+                                          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (C:\Temp\Whateve...tialize Job.log:String) [Remove-Item], ItemNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RemoveItemCommand

and loads of other errors that are similar

I can confirm that the file referenced in the first error C:\Temp\Whatever\logs\1_Selenium SEPA-Test\Attempt1\1_Start VM's\Release\1_Initialize Agent.log does exist in the zip folder at an equivalent location...

After the script concludes, I do a see an incomplete folder in the directory specified.

Whats going on here?

Thanks,

Answer 1

I had issues with this module in the past and a colleague and I cobbled together the following

# This script was created to extract the contents of multiple ZIP files located in a directory
# structure. Each ZIP files is extracted within the folder it resides.

# File path
$filepath = Get-ChildItem -Path 'C:\Users\Luke\Desktop\ArchivedScripts\' -Filter *.zip -Recurse

# convert filepath to NameSpace object
$shell = new-object -com shell.application

# ForEach Loop processes each ZIP file located within the $filepath variable
foreach($file in $filepath)
{
    $zip = $shell.NameSpace($file.FullName)
    foreach($item in $zip.items())
    {
        $shell.Namespace($file.DirectoryName).copyhere($item)
    }
    Remove-Item $file.FullName
}

Perhaps this is of some use?