Access to the path 'c:\$Recycle.Bin\S-1-5-18' is denied

Question

I have this code to copy all files from source-directory, F:\\, to destination-directory.

public void Copy(string sourceDir, string targetDir)
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Answer 1

That folder is a secure system folder (your bin, each drive has its own bin). Just place your file.copy into a try catch statement and ignore/log all the failures. That way you will only copy actual files and skip system files/folders.

If you really want to avoid the try catch statement. Use the fileinfo and directory info classes to figure out which folders/files are of the system and will throw an exception.