v2.0.0.0
- Major Release with numerous improvements and enhancements
- Module is now compatible with PS v3
- Module now uses Alphafs.dll v2.1.2(latest at the moment of this writing)
- All cmdlets work with relative paths
- New features\improvements in Existing Cmdlets
- Get-LongChildItem
- Lists directory items immediately and dosent wait until it is done enumerating the complete directory tree
- By default ignores errors(access denied) encountered during directory enumeration.
- Uses a simplified logic to enumerate the filesystem and work with include and exclude parameters
- Symlinks are now shown by default and the cmdlet optionally adds a switch parameter(-SkipSymbolicLink) to hide listing them.
- The mode property now indicates whether a particular file or directory is a SymbolicLink
- filehash algorith SHA256
- Additional properties added
- FileHash
- Target
- PSIsContainer
- LinkType
- IsPathLong
- IsSymbolicLink
- IsDirectory
- IsCompressed
- IsHidden
- IsEncrypted
- IsMountPoint
- IsOffline
- New-LongItem
- Create Symbolic Links for files and folders
- Create HardLinks for files
- Create text files and optionally add text content( can be an array of strings) with user specified encoding
- Remove-LongItem
- Added the ability to remove a file or folder with a trailing space in the name
- Rename-LongItem
- Added the ability to rename\change file extension while retaining the file name.(-NewExtension Parameter)
- Copy-LongChildItem
- New Switch Parameters
- CopySymbolicLink
- (If the source file is a symbolic link, destination is also a symbolic link pointing to the same file)
- Not working at this moment.(github issue raised - https://github.com/alphaleonis/AlphaFS/issues/292)
- NoBuffering
- (copy is performed using unbuffered I/O. Recommended for very large file transfers.)
- AllowDecryptedDestination
- (An attempt to copy an encrypted file will succeed even if the destination copy cannot be encrypted.)
- New Cmdlets
- Mount-LongShare
- Map Network share with or without credentials.
- DisMount-LongShare
- Remove mapped drive.
- Get-LongMappedDrive
- List mapped drives on localmachine.
- use format-list to view the UncPath property which shows the sharepath
- Get-LongFreeDriveLetter
- Be default gets the first free driveletter and with the -last parameter will list the last free drive letter.
- Get-LongDiskDrive
- Gets diskspace stats(used\free\percent).
- Get-LongDirectorySize
- Gets the size of a folder.
- Specify -Recurse to include subfolders and files
- Specify -ContinueonError to ignore errors(may result in an incorrect directory size)
