Copy files skipping duplicates VB.NET

Question

I am copying some folders with:

My.Computer.FileSystem.CopyDirectory(folder, destination)

And they obviously do have content. So I want to skip the duplicate files, how do I do that?

Thanks in advance,

Luca

Answer 1

You could try setting the parameter overwrite to false

My.Computer.FileSystem.CopyDirectory(folder, destination, false)

This will raise an exception when, in the destination folder, a file to be copied exist, but the missing files in the destination are still copied.

See the documentation on CopyDirectory(source, dest, overwrite) to know how to handle the exception