Copy Directory in .Net C# including sub-folders

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• Tmann says:
  May 05, 09

  Thanks alot for posting this function!!!

• James says:
  Jun 08, 09

  I'll second that! This was extremely useful for me.

• ka2 says:
  Dec 17, 09

  or, an easier way of doing the same, non recursive private static void CopyDirectory(string trgDir, string srcDir) { string[] allFiles = Directory.GetFiles(srcDir, "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories); foreach (string srcFile in allFiles) { string targetFile = trgDir + srcFile.Substring(srcDir.Length); string targetDir = Path.GetDirectoryName(targetFile); if (Directory.Exists(targetDir)) { Directory.CreateDirectory(targetDir); } File.Copy(srcFile, targetFile); } }

• Faris says:
  Jan 20, 10

  Thanks a lot for the code! It's very useful for me.. @ka2: your code seems much simpler, but requires more execution time.

• bort says:
  Mar 12, 10

  with VB6/vbscript it was copy "c:\*.*" Ever wonder if things have become less productive?

• Sandeep K Midgule says:
  May 04, 10

  Thanx It's very helfull function.

• Arun says:
  Sep 30, 10

  Thanks a lot

• b says:
  Oct 09, 10

  964899

• Milo says:
  Oct 31, 10

  Damn, there are some ugly examples.. Try this elegant little number. http://01792.org/blog/post/2010/10/06/Recursive-file-and-folder-copy.aspx

• Vinod J says:
  Nov 12, 10

  Great !! it really helpful

• Ignacio says:
  Dec 14, 10

  The preferred way of notifying errors in .Net is using exceptions not return values. Otherwise a handy function.

• Ignacio says:
  Dec 14, 10

  The preferred way of notifying errors in .Net is using exceptions not return values. Otherwise a handy function.

• thiru says:
  May 10, 11

  very useful.....

• austine says:
  May 11, 11

  Hi just wanted to ask on how to copy file from local c drive to ftp server I tried this sample but not working with . Please help. Austine

• JJ says:
  May 14, 11

  um, please check your return value. if(ret == false) , code should return false immediately. otherwise the last ret = true will always be true.

• Srikanth Kanchari says:
  Jan 12, 12

  private bool XCopy(String source,String destination) { DirectoryInfo sourcedir = new DirectoryInfo(source); DirectoryInfo destinationdir = new DirectoryInfo(destination); if (!Directory.Exists(destinationdir.FullName)) { Directory.CreateDirectory(destinationdir.FullName); } foreach (FileInfo fs in sourcedir.GetFiles()) { String dest = destinationdir.FullName + "\\" + fs.Name; File.Copy(fs.FullName, dest, true); } foreach (DirectoryInfo ds in sourcedir.GetDirectories()) { String newdir = destinationdir.FullName + "\\" +ds.Name; XCopy(ds.FullName, newdir); } return true; }

• blackpearl says:
  Jan 25, 12

  Thank you so much. This post was very helpful.