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Copy Files and Subfolders

Hey all,

I am trying to edit files from a set directory. The directory will be similar to:
C:\MyDir\FolderName1
C:\MyDir\FolderName2
etc

Basically what I need to do is copy a selected folder to a new directory including all contents and subdirectories. Currently I can copy individual files, but I can't seem to copy any folders (and their contents) that are subdirectories.

Can anybody help?

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hongjun

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sabeesh

try this

DirectoryInfo dirInfo = new DirectoryInfo("sourcepath");
dirInfo.MoveTo("destDirName");

angus_young_acdc

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Hi hongjun,

Thanks for the quick response. Is there anyway to get around this stage:
if (Directory.Exists(element))
CopyDirectory(element, dst + Path.GetFileName(element));

Only reason I ask is that I am preforming this inside a method which takes multiple different parameters and would be very resource heavy :(

angus_young_acdc

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Hi sabeesh,

I did consider .Move but unfortunately I can't remove the original folder which is what that would do.

Cheers

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Bob Learned

I borrowed what VB.NET provides with My.Computer.FileSystem.CopyDirectory, and created a stripped down class in C#, that uses a shell file operation (SHFileOperation).

Bob

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udhayakumard

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angus_young_acdc

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Thanks for the replies guys, but as I say is there a solution where I don't have to loop back through the same method with the likes of this:
CopyDirectory(diSrcDirectory, new DirectoryInfo(Path.Combine(diDestDir.FullName, diSrcDirectory.Name)));

As that would be very expensive on resources :(

Bob Learned

Would you like to see my solution?

Bob

angus_young_acdc

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Yes please Bob.

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angus_young_acdc

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Cheers all :)