searching entier hard disk

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hi ,

i wanna to know how to search all or specfic files in our computer hard disk...actually i did using

using system.io namespace and directoryinfo.getfiles()

but the probs s its returns files only from its very first sub dir but i wan to search whole machine itself...

pls post code for it....thanks in advance

Posted 2-Aug-10 19:53pm

Balaji_Reddy

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Yusuf · Answer 1 · 2010-08-02T19:57:00

Solution 1

you can either shout post code or RTFM[^]

Posted 2-Aug-10 19:57pm

Yusuf

Rajesh Sajjanar · Answer 2 · 2010-08-02T20:15:00

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Hi
Use SearchOption.AllDirectories as shown below to search the file from directory and subdirectory.

string[] filePaths = Directory.GetFile(@"c:\MyDir\,*.*,SearchOption.AllDirectories);

Posted 2-Aug-10 20:15pm

Rajesh Sajjanar