FlatCopy Profile Exporter

FlatCopy Profile Exporter is a Windows 10/11 desktop utility for copying user-profile data to another folder with no compression. It is a straight file-and-folder copy tool with a graphical interface, progress bar, cancel button, and plain-text logging.

Features

• Native Windows GUI built with WinForms
• Select one or more local user profiles
• Copy either:
  • selected standard profile folders
  • the entire profile
• Flat file copy only
• Progress tracking during long copy jobs
• Plain-text log written to the destination folder
• Optional destination-drive BitLocker requirement
• Optional Windows EFS encryption for copied output
• Skip reparse-point directories to avoid recursion problems

Supported Folder Mode

When folder mode is used, the app can copy:

• Desktop
• Documents
• Downloads
• Pictures
• Music
• Videos
• Favorites
• Contacts
• Links
• Saved Games
• Searches

Whole Profile Mode

If Copy entire profile is enabled, the app copies the full user profile tree into the destination and ignores the folder checklist.

Output layout:

<destination>\
  <profile-name>\
    ...

Destination Layout

Standard folder mode creates output like this:

<destination>\
  <profile-name>\
    Desktop\
    Documents\
    Downloads\
    Pictures\
    ...

Logging

Each run creates a plain-text log file in the selected destination folder:

FlatCopyLog_yyyyMMdd_HHmmss.txt

The log includes:

• start time
• selected profiles
• selected mode
• missing folders
• skipped files
• copy failures
• final totals

Optional Security Controls

The app includes two optional Windows security controls:

• Require BitLocker-protected destination
  • Verifies that the destination volume reports BitLocker protection before the copy begins.
• Encrypt copied data with Windows EFS
  • Applies Windows Encrypting File System (EFS) encryption to the copied output folders and the generated log file after the copy completes.

Notes:

• EFS requires an NTFS destination volume.
• BitLocker verification depends on Windows being able to report the destination volume status.
• These options use built-in Windows security features. They are intentionally labeled as BitLocker and EFS rather than as a formal certification claim.

Build

This project targets .NET 8 Windows desktop.

dotnet build FlatCopyProfileExporter.csproj

Publish

dotnet publish FlatCopyProfileExporter.csproj -c Release -r win-x64 --self-contained false

Run

After publishing, launch:

bin\Release\net8.0-windows\win-x64\publish\FlatCopyProfileExporter.exe

Notes

• The app does not compress, archive, or package files.
• The destination folder cannot be inside a selected source profile.
• Some locked or protected files may still fail to copy depending on permissions.
• EFS encryption may not be available on all Windows editions or destination filesystems.

License

This project uses a custom license that allows personal use, internal commercial use, modification, and free redistribution with attribution, but does not allow selling the software itself. See LICENSE.txt.