Why am I getting an access denied error for the Documents and Settings folder?

Question

I\'m writing a program that gets all directories and sub-directories. I\'m using the following code:

DriveInfo[] drives = DriveInfo.GetDrives();
foreach (Dri         


        

Answer 1

This directory is what is known as a junction point, which should be pointing to c:\users.

From the MSDN documentation:

These junction points can be identified as follows:

They have the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN, and FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SYSTEM file attributes set.

They also have their access control lists (ACLs) set to deny read access to everyone.

Applications that call out a specific path can traverse these junction points if they have the required permissions. However, attempts to enumerate the contents of the junction points will result in failures.