Copy the entire contents of a directory in C#

Question

I want to copy the entire contents of a directory from one location to another in C#.

There doesn\'t appear to be a way to do this using System.IO class

Answer 1

Try this:

Process proc = new Process();
proc.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
proc.StartInfo.FileName = Path.Combine(Environment.SystemDirectory, "xcopy.exe");
proc.StartInfo.Arguments = @"C:\source C:\destination /E /I";
proc.Start();

Your xcopy arguments may vary but you get the idea.

Answer 2

This is my code hope this help

    private void KCOPY(string source, string destination)
    {
        if (IsFile(source))
        {
            string target = Path.Combine(destination, Path.GetFileName(source));
            File.Copy(source, target, true);
        }
        else
        {
            string fileName = Path.GetFileName(source);
            string target = System.IO.Path.Combine(destination, fileName);
            if (!System.IO.Directory.Exists(target))
            {
                System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(target);
            }

            List<string> files = GetAllFileAndFolder(source);

            foreach (string file in files)
            {
                KCOPY(file, target);
            }
        }
    }

    private List<string> GetAllFileAndFolder(string path)
    {
        List<string> allFile = new List<string>();
        foreach (string dir in Directory.GetDirectories(path))
        {
            allFile.Add(dir);
        }
        foreach (string file in Directory.GetFiles(path))
        {
            allFile.Add(file);
        }

        return allFile;
    }
    private bool IsFile(string path)
    {
        if ((File.GetAttributes(path) & FileAttributes.Directory) == FileAttributes.Directory)
        {
            return false;
        }
        return true;
    }

Answer 3

tboswell 's replace Proof version (which is resilient to repeating pattern in filepath)

public static void copyAll(string SourcePath , string DestinationPath )
{
   //Now Create all of the directories
   foreach (string dirPath in Directory.GetDirectories(SourcePath, "*", SearchOption.AllDirectories))
      Directory.CreateDirectory(Path.Combine(DestinationPath ,dirPath.Remove(0, SourcePath.Length ))  );

   //Copy all the files & Replaces any files with the same name
   foreach (string newPath in Directory.GetFiles(SourcePath, "*.*",  SearchOption.AllDirectories))
      File.Copy(newPath, Path.Combine(DestinationPath , newPath.Remove(0, SourcePath.Length)) , true);
    }

Answer 4

Copied from MSDN:

using System;
using System.IO;

class CopyDir
{
    public static void Copy(string sourceDirectory, string targetDirectory)
    {
        DirectoryInfo diSource = new DirectoryInfo(sourceDirectory);
        DirectoryInfo diTarget = new DirectoryInfo(targetDirectory);

        CopyAll(diSource, diTarget);
    }

    public static void CopyAll(DirectoryInfo source, DirectoryInfo target)
    {
        Directory.CreateDirectory(target.FullName);

        // Copy each file into the new directory.
        foreach (FileInfo fi in source.GetFiles())
        {
            Console.WriteLine(@"Copying {0}\{1}", target.FullName, fi.Name);
            fi.CopyTo(Path.Combine(target.FullName, fi.Name), true);
        }

        // Copy each subdirectory using recursion.
        foreach (DirectoryInfo diSourceSubDir in source.GetDirectories())
        {
            DirectoryInfo nextTargetSubDir =
                target.CreateSubdirectory(diSourceSubDir.Name);
            CopyAll(diSourceSubDir, nextTargetSubDir);
        }
    }

    public static void Main()
    {
        string sourceDirectory = @"c:\sourceDirectory";
        string targetDirectory = @"c:\targetDirectory";

        Copy(sourceDirectory, targetDirectory);
    }

    // Output will vary based on the contents of the source directory.
}