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Royston
Royston

Reputation: 598

envirionment vairbales and scope

This script is supposed to create some new drives but after i run it they dont exist, any ideas why? totally stuck.... Thanks in advance

Function New-Drives {

    Param()

        New-PSDrive -Name AppData -PSProvider FileSystem -Root $env:Appdata
        New-PSDrive -Name Temp -PSProvider FileSystem -Root $env
        $env:TEMP=Join-Path -Path C:\Windows\Temp
        $mydocs=Join-Path -Path $env:userprofile -ChildPath Documents
        New-PSDrive -Name Docs -PSProvider FileSystem -Root $mydocs

}

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New-Drives

Upvotes: 0

Views: 47

Answers (1)

Mike Garuccio
Mike Garuccio

Reputation: 2728

you need to add the -Persist parameter to your New-PSDrive calls. otherwise it will only create the drive within your powershell session.

Upvotes: 1

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