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I'm writing some powershell to check if the Google Drive for Desktop process is running. If it is, I need to stop it and restart it. I'm having trouble understanding how to avoid throwing errors if the drive process isn't running with the line:

$drive = Get-Process -Name "GoogleDriveFS"

How would I check to see if the process is running in a way that won't throw errors if it's not?

#Get Drive Process
$drive = Get-Process -Name "GoogleDriveFS"
write $drive\n

if ($drive) {
    #Stop Drive
    $drive | Stop-Process


write "Drive Process info1 : " $drive

#Wait 5 Seconds
sleep 5

#Check to see if Drive closed
#If not, then force close
if (!$drive.HasExited) {
    $drive | Stop-Process -Force

    #Wait 5 Seconds
    sleep 5
    write "Drive Process info2 : " $drive
}

#Check again
#If not running, start Drive
else {
    #Start Drive
    write "Google Drive is not running, Starting Google Drive..."
    Start-Process  "C:\Program Files\Google\Drive File Stream\[0-9]*.*\GoogleDriveFS.exe"

    #check
    write $drive
}



}
g1Lg4m3sh
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1 Answers1

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Add -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue to your Get-Process command.

You're already implicitly testing for $null, so that should be fine.

PS C:\Users\rpresser> $x = get-process -name "fnord" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
PS C:\Users\rpresser> $x -eq $null
True
Ross Presser
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