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isl65
isl65

Reputation: 21

Getting 'PermissionError: [error 13] permission denied when using shutil.copyfiles

I'am using the following code to copy content of folder PStool into folder c:/WINDOWS/System32. I am running the program as admin 

import shutil

import os

programSourcePath = "C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\Utilities_Installers_new\Programs"

pstoolfiles = os.listdir(programSourcePath + '/PSTools')

for name in pstoolfiles:
        srcname = os.path.join(programSourcePath + '/PSTools', name)
        shutil.copyfile(srcname, r'c:/WINDOWS/System32')

Getting 

PermissionError: [error 13] permission denied : 'c:/WINDOWS/System32'

Upvotes: 0

Views: 312

Answers (1)

emunshi studio
emunshi studio

Reputation: 11

copyfile() destination should be complete filename. As per Pythons docs:

shutil.copyfile(src, dst)

Copy the contents (no metadata) of the file named src to a file named dst.
dst must be the complete target file name; look at shutil.copy() for a copy 
that accepts a target directory path.

Try this:

import shutil
import os

programSourcePath = "C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\Utilities_Installers_new\Programs"

pstoolfiles = os.listdir(programSourcePath + '/PSTools')

for name in pstoolfiles:
    srcname = os.path.join(programSourcePath + '/PSTools', name)
    dstname = os.path.join(r'c:/WINDOWS/System32', name)
    shutil.copyfile(srcname, dstname)

Upvotes: 1

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