Question

I have one folder called OLD. There is a directory structure inside it like:

Old  
---DSL  
---------CI  
------------AppFolder1    
------------AppFolder2  
---------------------------FUN2    
--------CA  
------------AppFolder1  

Inside each folder there may or may not be files.

I have one folder called NEW, which has the updates and the depending upon the changes appropriate directory structure is inside it. The point is that it will be same as OLD. For example:

NEW  
---DSL  
---------CI  
------------AppFolder2  
---------------------------FUN2  
--------CA    

As you can see the directory structure (including folder names) as same. I want all files in NEW to replace appropriate files in OLD.

Please provide me a starting point for it.

Answer 1

I created a folder Old with the structure:

Old Root C:\Old for example.

-Old
--CI
---AppFolder1
---AppFolder2

And New which had nothing in it.

Then ran the console app I made setting the NewRoot to C:\New and got:

-New
--CI
---AppFolder1
---AppFolder2

Not sure if this is the sort of thing you were looking for – if not advise what you want to be done differently 🙂

private static void SyncDirectories(string oldRoot, string newRoot)
{
  CreateDirectoriesRecursive(Directory.GetDirectories(oldRoot), newRoot);
}
private static void CreateDirectoriesRecursive(string[] oldDirectories, string root)
{
  foreach (string oldDirectory in oldDirectories)
  {
    string directoryToCreate = root + @"\" + new DirectoryInfo(oldDirectory).Name;
    if (!Directory.Exists(directoryToCreate))
      Directory.CreateDirectory(directoryToCreate);
    if (Directory.GetDirectories(oldDirectory).Count() > 0)
      CreateDirectoriesRecursive(Directory.GetDirectories(oldDirectory), directoryToCreate);
  }
}