removing readonly from folder, its sub folders and all the files in it

Question

is there a way that i can remove the property \"read only\"?

i tried this:

var di = new DirectoryInfo(\"C:\\\\Work\");
                di.Attributes &         


        

Answer 1

A better way of doing might be.

string cmd = string.Format(" /C ATTRIB -R  \"{0}\\*.*\" /S /D", binPath);
CallCommandlineApp("cmd.exe", cmd);

private static bool CallCommandlineApp(string progPath, string arguments)
{
   var info = new ProcessStartInfo()
    {
        UseShellExecute = false,
        RedirectStandardOutput = true,
        FileName = progPath,
        Arguments = arguments

    };

    var proc = new Process()
    {
        StartInfo = info
    };
    proc.Start();

    using (StreamReader stReader = proc.StandardOutput)
    {
        string output = stReader.ReadToEnd();
        Console.WriteLine(output);

    }

    // TODO: Do something with standard error. 
    proc.WaitForExit();
    return (proc.ExitCode == 0) ? true : false;
}

I ran into this samiliar problem of wanting to clear the read/write flag of a directory and any sub-files/directories it might have. And using a foreach loop sound like extra work, when the Attrib command line function works just fine and is almost instantaneous.