trying to use Directory .EnumerateFiles("*.jpg", SearchOption.AllDirectories); [duplicate]

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So i'm using Directory.GetFiles(folder, "*.jpg", SearchOption.AllDirectories). When i try it on the c:\ drive in windows 7, since windows 7 still had c:\documents and settings (for legacy systems like xp), it's a protected folder. It's only protected because it's not really a folder. It's kind of a dummy folder. So when I run this code:

try
{
    string[] folders = Directory.GetFiles(@"C:\\","*.jpg", SearchOption.AllDirectories);
    foreach (string item in folders)
    { 
       //blah blah
    }
catch
{
}

It always throws an UnauthorizedAccessException. It doesn't let me past that. What I'm trying to do is have it skip over any folder that it doesn't have permis开发者_如何学Pythonsion to access, but just continue to search, don't get caught up on the catch block, just continue. Any ideas?

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I would try one of the two workarounds in this article (click on workarounds tab near the bottom):

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/94751/optionally-prevent-directoryinfo-getfiles-from-throwing-unauthorizedaccessexception