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The code currently is trying to collect the names of files in a directory, not what was actually deleted in a directory. If you want verbose logging, you need to process the files separately. Get-ChildItem is returning Files and Directories, so the code is deleting all subdirectories too which you are not collecting with Get-ChildItem. Another thing is just logging the name is a bit pointless, you at least want a path and name (e.g FullName), but even more you should be logging with a PSObject, not just text in a log file. Take look at the following (not tested, but should be close):

$dirs = "C:\Scripts\*"

$results = foreach ($dir in $dirs) {

    #Get all files in the directory and all sub-directories
    $files = Get-ChildItem -Path $dir -File -Recurse
    
    #Process the files one by one and delete them.
    foreach ($file in $files) {
        try {
            Remove-Item -Path $file.FullName -Force -ErrorAction Stop -WhatIf
            $Status = 'SUCCESS'
        }
        catch {
            $Status = 'FAILED: {0}' -f $_
        }

        #Return the file information to the $results variable
        $file | 
            Select-Object Name, 
                          FullName, 
                          Length, 
                          @{Name='Status';Expression={$status}}
    }    

    #Delete folders with no logging
    $folders = Get-ChildItem -Path $dir -Directory | 
                   Remove-Item -Force -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

} 

#Success
$results | Where-Object {$_.Status -eq 'Success'}
#Failed
$results | Where-Object {$_.Status -ne 'Success'}
#Export
#$results | Export-Csv -Path 'C:\mystuff.csv' -NoTypeInformation

It also appears that you are trying to write to the host with output. Rather than outputting a bunch of filenames to the screen, look at Write-Progress that will tell you how far in deleting process has been completed as you’ll just be scrolling with a bunch of names that doesn’t really provide any value and the buffer isn’t big enough to hold all of that data. Using a progress bar will be much more useful to who is monitoring the process.

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