How to rename file from directory shared Temp folder into timestamped folders

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Please help, I have a file that gets dumped into a temp folder. Example file name testimageYYMMDDHHMMSS.JPG, what I am trying to do is a foreach loop that will automate moving it to the new location within the same FTP directory, which the new location folder and subfolder will have; 1 folder for the year,12 folder for the months, 31 folder for the days of the weeks, with 4 time of day folders in each day of the week (every 6 hours 0000,0600,1200,1800).

Thanks in advance

Posted 28-Jul-14 15:53pm

@SkyHigh34

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PIEBALDconsult 28-Jul-14 22:31pm

Seems easy enough. So what problem do you have?

@SkyHigh34 28-Jul-14 22:36pm

I am very new to this and would appreciate some pointing to examples of how to does this.

PIEBALDconsult 28-Jul-14 23:23pm

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.file.move(v=vs.110).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.regularexpressions.regex(v=vs.110).aspx

@SkyHigh34 30-Jul-14 23:09pm

I do not get an error but the file does not move?? static void Main(string[] args)
{
string name = "imagenine14073012535800.jpg";
var match = Regex.Match(name, @"(?i)[a-z]+(\d{10})$");

if (match.Success)
{
DateTime dt = DateTime.ParseExact(match.Groups[1].Value, "yyMMddHHmmssff", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

string path = string.Format(@"A:\Camera1\{0}\imagenine\{1}\{2}\{3}\{4}",
dt.ToString("yyyy"),
dt.ToString("MMMM"),
dt.ToString("dd"),
dt.ToString("HH00"),
dt.ToString("00mm"));

}
}

???
help; I don't understand how the code would know where to search for the temp file folder and move into the folders named with the time.

PIEBALDconsult 31-Jul-14 0:34am

So far so good, now call Move.

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