UnauthorizedAccessException when gettings shortcut files

[NitroFrench]

Hi, thanks for this very good looking program.

When initiazing, inStrmenu.cs there is an instruction to get all shortcut files from various path :
foreach (var shortcut in Directory.GetFiles(path, "*.lnk", SearchOption.AllDirectories))

The GetFiles throws an UnthaurizedAccessException when accessing my appdata folder.

Tried to change the appmanifest, run as admin, security settings of folder, but I found no way the fix this, any idea ?

[gerardbalaoro]

@NitroFrench I can't replicate this issue. The application should ask trigger UAC when launched which should give read access to the shortcuts folder.

Can you provide additional information?

[NitroFrench]

Thanks for replying @gerardbalaoro
It does as for administrator priviledge when started, but even though I have an Unauthorized access when calling Directory.GetFiles on ProgramData folder (not on AppData/roaming...).

Google that and found many people had this issue which seems related to some subdirectories beeing readonly or protected.
The workaround is to recursively scan each subdirectory in order to catch exception and skip the subdirectories which cause the issue.

I made a PR which a fix to this problem, as I finaly found what was going on.