How to find a subfolder name and iterate the files and delete after iterating was done.

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I have a folder with in that folder i have some subfolder's, each subfolder contains some files, so first i need to take first subfolder and get the files from directory and send to my application after iterating all the files need to be deleted as well as the subfolder also need to be delete, next move to second subfolder and do the same procedure until the Main/root folder is empty.

Posted 23-Jun-15 18:38pm

Vijay533

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Suvendu Shekhar Giri 24-Jun-15 0:47am

So, what is the problem implementing your logic?
Why not copying all the files at once and then delete the complete structure ?
Is there any specific reason for doing that?

Vijay533 24-Jun-15 4:50am

Hi shekhar giri, the problem has solved, but i have a question, i need to send multiple files to my exe for indexing/stores the documents how to do that thing.

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2015-06-23T19:09:00

There are loads of ways you could do this, but the easiest is just to get all the files:

C#

string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(pathToFolder, "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories);

This returns an array of strings which contain the full path to each file in the specified folder, or any subfolder.
You can then process the files sequentially via a simple loop, and use File.Delete to remove each of them when finished.
When complete, you can use Directory.GetDirectories to list each of the folders in the main path, and delete them with:

Directory.Delete(path, true);

Alternatively, delete the base folder, and recreate it.