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

After looking for an answer for some time - I decided to write the code on my own.

I'm sharing here the basic idea and not the full code - Take the important part and use it implement it in your code.

Worked for me.

public void directoryCrawl(string startFolder)
    {

    try
    {
        System.IO.DirectoryInfo dir = new System.IO.DirectoryInfo(startFolder);

        /* here you can add "dir" to some kind of list of your choice. */

        foreach (System.IO.DirectoryInfo directory in dir.GetDirectories())
        {
            try
            {
                directoryCrawl(directory.FullName);
            }
            catch
            {
                Console.Writeline("Access denied to: \"" + directory.FullName + "\".");
            }
        }
    }
    catch
    {
        if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(startFolder))
        {
            Console.Writeline("Access denied to: \"" + startFolder + "\".");
        }
        }
        return;
    }