Question

I am making a program where it could copy a Folder and Transfer it to another location, including the attribute, permissions, security settings.

So Far I got the Attribution to work, but am having problems with the permissions/security settings. Here are my code:

Directory.CreateDirectory(Destination);
DirectoryInfo DestAttribute = new DirectoryInfo(Destination);
DestAttribute.Attributes = Source.Attributes; // Copies Attributes from Source to Dest

AuthorizationRuleCollection Rule;
DirectorySecurity DestSecurity = Source.GetAccessControl();
Rule = DestSecurity.GetAccessRules(true, true, typeof(NTAccount));
DestSecurity.AddAccessRule(Rule);
DestAttribute.SetAccessControl(DestSecurity);

Anyone have any suggestion on getting this to work ?
Thank you everyone for all the help.

Answer 1

This appears to be a duplicate of:

Original Question…

(code sample from original question)

FileInfo file1 = new FileInfo(@"c:\test.txt");
FileInfo file2 = new FileInfo(@"c:\test2.txt");
StreamReader sr1 = new StreamReader(file1.Open(FileMode.Open));
StreamWriter sw1 = new StreamWriter(file2.Open(FileMode.Create));
sw1.Write(sr1.ReadToEnd());
sr1.Close();
sw1.Close();
FileSecurity ac1 = file1.GetAccessControl();
ac1.SetAccessRuleProtection(true, true);
file2.SetAccessControl(ac1);

I put together the following method and it appears to do what you want…

private static void FolderCopy(String sourceFolder, String destinationFolder)
{
    DirectoryInfo sourceDirectory = new DirectoryInfo(sourceFolder);
    DirectoryInfo destinationDirectory;

    if (!sourceDirectory.Exists)
    {
        throw new DirectoryNotFoundException("Source folder not found: " + sourceFolder);
    }

    if (!Directory.Exists(destinationFolder))
    {
        destinationDirectory = Directory.CreateDirectory(destinationFolder);
    }
    else
    {
        destinationDirectory = new DirectoryInfo(destinationFolder);
    }

    DirectorySecurity security = sourceDirectory.GetAccessControl();

    security.SetAccessRuleProtection(true, true);
    destinationDirectory.SetAccessControl(security);

    var filesToCopy = sourceDirectory.GetFiles();

    foreach (FileInfo file in filesToCopy)
    {
        String path = Path.Combine(destinationFolder, file.Name);
        FileSecurity fileSecurity = file.GetAccessControl();

        fileSecurity.SetAccessRuleProtection(true, true);

        file.CopyTo(path, false);

        FileInfo copiedFile = new FileInfo(path);

        copiedFile.SetAccessControl(fileSecurity);
    }
}

Chris