How to check multi level folders

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Hi All,

How to check multilevel folders mean to say I will have one directory path and I go to that path and remove all the files in all folder... That may contains sub folder and with in that again sub folders. So I am not getting how to do that...

We have some period to keep the files. I have to remove the file only after checking the file created on versus given period. Once that period is over then only I can delete the file.

Can you please give an idea how to do that...

Thanks in advance.

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Naveen

Posted 24-Jul-14 21:31pm

NaVeN Kumar

Updated 24-Jul-14 22:15pm

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2014-07-24T21:40:00

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Directory.Delete[^] has an overload which takes a bool value: when true, all files and sub folders are automatically removed.

Posted 24-Jul-14 21:40pm

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NaVeN Kumar 25-Jul-14 4:12am

We have some period to keep the files. I have to remove the file only after checking the file created on versus given period. Once that period is over then only I can delete the file.

Sorry I did not mention this before.

OriginalGriff 25-Jul-14 4:22am

In which case use Directory.GetFiles - it has an overload that takes options which allow "All Directories".
You can then use FileInformation to identify the creation period and delete the "older" material. If necessary, you can then recursively traverse the folders deleting "empties".

NaVeN Kumar 25-Jul-14 4:34am

Yes It worked when I used

Directory.GetFiles(directoryPath, "*", System.IO.SearchOption.AllDirectories);

Thank you so much... :)

OriginalGriff 25-Jul-14 4:40am

You're welcome!