Powershell: resolve path that might not exist?

Question

I\'m trying to process a list of files that may or may not be up to date and may or may not yet exist. In doing so, I need to resolve the full path of an item, even though

Answer 1

I had a similar issue where I needed to find the folder 3 levels up from a folder that does not exist yet to determine the name for a new folder I wanted to create... It's complicated. Anyway, this is what I ended up doing:

($path -split "\\" | select -SkipLast 3) -join "\\"