Access to path denied exception

[rpajyoti_wagh (jyoti wagh)]

Hi everyone, Can we copy folder from source to destination using copy file or we just copy files using it?
I tried copying folder its giving me “Access to path is denied”
System.UnauthorizedAccessException

[NIVED_NAMBIAR (NIVED N)]

Hi @rpajyoti_wagh

we can only copy files with that

To copy the entire folder, you can use some simple Powershell cmdlets as well for the purpose.

Regards,
Nived N

[Gresilda_Balla]

Hi @rpajyoti_wagh
You can just copy files with ‘copy file’ activity.
But you can use ‘create folder’ and then ‘copy file’ to copy all the files in the old folder to the new one.

[lukasziebold]

Here is a sample from the forum how to use Invoke Method Activity to copy a directory.

How to move a directory and its files to a new path

we can use Copy Directory method of FileSystem. here is the exampleCopyLogs.xaml (7.4 KB) If destination folder is exist even though it will execute.

[rpajyoti_wagh (jyoti wagh)]

Thanks everyone I am clear now

[prasath17 (Guru)]

@rpajyoti_wagh - Please check this for your reference…

Create folders and sub folder if doesn't exists while copying a file

@Krithi1 - I think I figured it out…In the below code, Guru and Test folder does not exist and when I ran the code, it created and copied the folder… [image] My.Computer.FileSystem.CopyFile("C:\Users\giris\Documents\UiPath\Studio\String_Manipulation\DeleteFiles\201872 Invoice Penalty Charge.pdf.txt", "C:\Users\giris\Documents\UiPath\Studio\String_Manipulation\DeleteFiles\Guru\Test\201872 Invoice Penalty Charge.pdf.txt") [image] [image] [image] Hope this helps…

[Rubens_F_Vaz]

to workaround the copy activity, i had to use power shell, so there is a activity called “Invoke Power Shell”.

That is the code: “& { $xcopyCommand = 'xcopy “”” + str_pathWindows + “”" “”" + str_pathSharepoint + “”" /E /I /Y’; Invoke-Expression $xcopyCommand }" on powershell UiPath activity. And it worked great.