MatthewCoatney
1/11/2019 - 10:28 PM

Recursive Folder Copy in C#

Sadly there is no built-in function in System.IO that will copy a folder and its contents. Following is a simple recursive algorithm that copies a folder, its sub-folders and files, creating the destination folder if needed. For simplicity, there is no error handling; an exception will throw if anything goes wrong, such as null or invalid paths or if the destination files already exist.

http://www.csharp411.com/c-copy-folder-recursively/

recursive-folder-copy.cs
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static public void CopyFolder( string sourceFolder, string destFolder )
        {
            if (!Directory.Exists( destFolder ))
                Directory.CreateDirectory( destFolder );
            string[] files = Directory.GetFiles( sourceFolder );
            foreach (string file in files)
            {
                string name = Path.GetFileName( file );
                string dest = Path.Combine( destFolder, name );
                File.Copy( file, dest );
            }
            string[] folders = Directory.GetDirectories( sourceFolder );
            foreach (string folder in folders)
            {
                string name = Path.GetFileName( folder );
                string dest = Path.Combine( destFolder, name );
                CopyFolder( folder, dest );
            }
        }