How to Delay Complete-BitsTransfer until Transfer Complete?

Question

The following bits transfer starts a bunch of bits jobs, which work perfectly when I manually complete the transfer later: Get-BitsTransfer | Complete-BitsTransfer

My attempt to script a delay before complete is not working. The While is not processed, or perhaps it's processed before the transfer jobs even start.

loop starts many jobs...
    $job = Start-BitsTransfer -Source $fileUrl -Destination $fileDest -Asynchronous
...end loop

While ($job.JobState -eq "Transferring") {
    Sleep -Seconds 1
}

Get-BitsTransfer | Complete-BitsTransfer

Any suggestion how to permit -Asynchronous jobs a chance to load before executing complete?

After I added a 1-second delay before the wait, the script above waits. Seems hacky.

You are probably waiting in While loop only for "last package" of bittransfers created by previous loop. Could you post code of the loop which creates BitTransfers? — cezarypiatek, Dec 17 '16 at 08:49

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 17 '16 at 13:19

cezarypiatek deserves this answer:

Problem is the While loop checking only the last package. Code corrected to:

$job - @()
loop starts many jobs...
    $job += Start-BitsTransfer -Source $fileUrl -Destination $fileDest -Asynchronous
...end loop

While ($job | Where-Object{$job.JobState -eq "Transferring"}) {
    Sleep -Seconds 1
}

Get-BitsTransfer | Complete-BitsTransfer

How to Delay Complete-BitsTransfer until Transfer Complete?

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