I have filed a Ticket #5403 and applied a patch here some time ago: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5403 Hope it works for you. -----Original Message----- Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:48:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Kiah08 <tonycaver2007@gmail.com> Subject: [Boost-users] Directory Iterator / Directory "access denied" exception Does anyone know of a way to handle exceptions when a directory is inaccessible? I would like to be able to resume the directory scan after the inaccessible directory. Please give an in depth example if possible. Using Boost 1.46.