Pastable version of DirectoryInfo.CopyTo

<pre class='prettyprint' language='cs'>public static class DirectoryInfoExtensions
{
    public static void CopyTo(this String Source, String Destination, Boolean Overwrite)
    {
                // Hold directory information
                var SourceDirectory = new DirectoryInfo(Source);
                var DestinationDirectory = new DirectoryInfo(Destination);
                
                // Throw an error is the source directory does not exist
                if (SourceDirectory.Exists == false) {
                        throw new DirectoryNotFoundException();
                }
                
                // Create the destination directory
                if (DestinationDirectory.Exists == false) {
                        DestinationDirectory.Create();
                }
                
                // Loop through the files and copy them
                var SubFiles = SourceDirectory.GetFiles();
                for (int i = 0; i &lt; SubFiles.Length; i++) {
                        var NewFile = Path.Combine(
                                DestinationDirectory.FullName,
                                SubFiles[i].Name
                        );
                        SubFiles[i].CopyTo(NewFile, Overwrite);
                }
                
                // Loop through the directories and call this function
                var SubDirectories = SourceDirectory.GetDirectories();
                for (int i = 0; i &lt; SubDirectories.Length; i++) {
                        var NewDirectory = Path.Combine(
                                DestinationDirectory.FullName,
                                SubDirectories[i].Name
                        );
                        SubDirectories[i].CopyTo(NewDirectory, Overwrite);
                }
        }
}

var SourceDirectory = new DirectoryInfo(@&quot;C:\Users\&quot;);
SourceDirectory.CopyTo(@&quot;C:\Users_Backup\&quot;, true);</pre>
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