c# copy folder

This article demonstrates how to use I/O classes to synchronously copy the contents of a directory to another location.

This example copies a subdirectory by  setting the CopyDirectory method's  recursive argument to  true . CopyDirectory Method copies each subdirectory recursively by calling its own method on them until there are no more subdirectories to copy.

using System.IO;

CopyDirectory(@".\", @".\copytest", true);

static void CopyDirectory(string sourceDir, string destinationDir, bool recursive)
{
    // Get information about the source directory
    var dir = new DirectoryInfo(sourceDir);

    // Check if the source directory exists
    if (!dir.Exists)
        throw new DirectoryNotFoundException($"Source directory not found: {dir.FullName}");

    // Cache directories before we start copying
    DirectoryInfo[] dirs = dir.GetDirectories();

    // Create the destination directory
    Directory.CreateDirectory(destinationDir);

    // Get the files in the source directory and copy to the destination directory
    foreach (FileInfo file in dir.GetFiles())
    {
        string targetFilePath = Path.Combine(destinationDir, file.Name);
        file.CopyTo(targetFilePath);
    }

    // If recursive and copying subdirectories, recursively call this method
    if (recursive)
    {
        foreach (DirectoryInfo subDir in dirs)
        {
            string newDestinationDir = Path.Combine(destinationDir, subDir.Name);
            CopyDirectory(subDir.FullName, newDestinationDir, true);
        }
    }
}