Getting file structure off system

Im trying to create a program which can read the directory stucture of a system and put it in a list of sum sort so i can process it.
my aim is to be able to represent the file structure in an xml document
i am totally lost and would just like to get a bit of a push in the right direction

The code snippet below shows how to move through all the directories of a specific drive on a computer.
public void traverse (File root) {
    // get all the files in this location
    File [] files = root.listFiles();
    System.out.println ("Visiting " + root.getPath());
    // move through each of them and look for directories
    for ( int i=0; i < files.length; i++) {
        // if this is a directory then investigate it by calling traverse again
        if ( files.isDirectory() ) {
traverse (files[i]);
else {
System.out.println ("File: " + files[i].getPath());
You can get the drive letters (on a windows machine) that are valid by calling the static .listRoots method of the File class. Be warned that running the above code on a big drive will take some time!
Jonathan

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I researched on how to grab a file properties such as file size, file modified date, etc and I came across the following
link:
I followed exact steps and when I went to execute the package, I got the following error:
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// Fill SSIS variables with file properties
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.IO; // Added to get file properties
using System.Security.Principal; // Added to get file owner
using System.Security.AccessControl; // Added to get file owner
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Failure = Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.DTSExecResult.Failure
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Dts.VariableDispenser.LockForWrite("User::FileCreationDate");
Dts.VariableDispenser.LockForWrite("User::FileExists");
Dts.VariableDispenser.LockForWrite("User::FileInUse");
Dts.VariableDispenser.LockForWrite("User::FileIsReadOnly");
Dts.VariableDispenser.LockForWrite("User::FileLastAccessedDate");
Dts.VariableDispenser.LockForWrite("User::FileLastModifiedDate");
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Eventually I am looking to just grab the Modified Date from the Windows Explorer folder and insert into table. Any suggestions? Thank you in advance!
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Hi SSISJoost,
I am so glad you responded to this thread. You are absolutely right. I copied the entire code including the project name (guid) and that solved the error problem.
Now, what did you do to get the message box? I added the watch and I could see the values but how do I get these values in a table? If I remember correctly, in your blog, you mentioned something about using derived columns. I am familiar with Derived Columns
but how do I do that? I appreciate your response.
Thank you.
Sanjeev
Sanjeev Jha
I used a second script task to show all variable values. It has a
MessageBox in it and between all
variables I added a
newline to make it more readable...
But with an Execute SQL Task and parameters you can also put these values in a Table... or you can read the file in a Data Flow Task and add those variables (as metadata) to each record with a Derived Column
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For some reason, when trying to use Time Machine to recover, it bypasses the top level ‘Denise’ folder which contains the correct files and goes into the ‘Time Capsule’ folder and finds the outdated backup files.
I would assume that both my backup files and my wife’s should be at the same level of the Time Capsule.
I was eventually able to use Migration Assistant to recover the files after installing a fresh OS and mounting the correct Sparsebundle image.
So, my question, how do I get this fixed so that if I have to recover a drive with Time Capsule, it will find the correct files.
Sorry for the long post and thanks in advance for any help.

John Ormsby wrote:
What I was trying to determine is why different backups for one particular machine are located at different file structure levels on my Time Capsule and why the most resent one for that machine is at a different level that for my other machine. Also, what is the correct level that both machines backups should be at.
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