Access to the Path Is Denied

Access to the path is denied

You need to find out from the application pool for the website what is the identity it is running under (by default this is Application Pool Identity) and grant that the correct permissions.

.NET Directory.Move results in Access to path is denied with network paths

There are a number of things that could be causing it to deny access and it would be hard to point you in the right direction without seeing your code. But here are 2 scenarios that might help you.

Scenario 1 - The filepath you are using is in the wrong format, Usually I have had a access denied because the format of the network filepath was actually wrong. I would recommend looking up examples of how you should pass the filepath. Also have a talk with your network engineers and ask them about the rights that have been setup for that filepath.

Scenario 2 - You might be passing a filepath when you also need to specify a name. Now I dont have all the details but I also had issues in the past using the Directory.Move function where I actually had to specify a filename to move it to. You do this by just adding the file and extension to the end of the target path to copy to.

If you could post some more information I might be able to point you in the right direction but this is what I can think of for now. I hope this works for you or atleast brings you closer to an answer. Good luck!

*Edit: It looks like I am wrong on the scenarios, Have a look at this link Can you move a file/folder across a network share in .NET?

You will have to first manually create the filepath and then copy all the files into the new filepath you have created. It seems like Directory.Move has problems when different machines are used.

Exception Folder: Access to the Path is denied

You could check the permissions before write the file with richardwiden's answer : Checking for directory and file write permissions in .NET

Or you could use try catch in your WriteTree() function to ignore the UnauthorizedAccessException exception like :

try {
    writer.WriteAttributeString("name", info.Name);
    [...]
} catch (Exception ex) {
    // If is a permission error, ignore exception
    if (ex is UnauthorizedAccessException)
         return size;

    // custom error log
    string errorMsg = string.Format("Exception Folder : {0}, Error : {1}", info.FullName, ex.Message);
    Console.WriteLine(errorMsg);
    writer.WriteElementString("Error", errorMsg);
}

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