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.

• 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
• Temp-file staging to avoid partial output or destructive overwrites
• Skip reparse-point directories to avoid recursion problems

When folder mode is used, the app can copy:

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

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>\
    ...

Standard folder mode creates output like this:

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

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
• overwrite mode
• missing folders
• skipped files
• copy failures
• final totals

The app includes one optional Windows security control:

• Require BitLocker-protected destination
  • Verifies that the destination volume reports BitLocker protection before the copy begins.

Notes:

• BitLocker verification depends on Windows being able to report the destination volume status.
• This option uses a built-in Windows security feature and is intentionally labeled as BitLocker rather than as a formal certification claim.

This project targets .NET 8 Windows desktop.

dotnet build FlatCopyProfileExporter.csproj

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

After publishing, launch:

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

• The app does not compress, archive, or package files.
• The destination folder cannot be inside a selected source profile.
• Files are copied to temporary paths first and then moved into place so canceled or failed runs do not leave partial destination files behind.
• Some locked or protected files may still fail to copy depending on permissions.

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.