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Hi All,

C# How to get the files from the folder for a particular date range without traversing through the entire folder in Fastest way.

I am having around 1.5 lakhs of files in the folder and my windows application is taking more than 20 minutes to fetch the files for the given date range. Please help me.

Note:Files are coming to the folder at random times.
Thanks In Advance.

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Prashant

Posted 9-Jan-13 0:05am

Prashant Bangaluru

Updated 9-Jan-13 0:06am

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*Suvabrata Roy* · Answer 1 · 2013-01-09T00:39:00

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Hi,

try it and reply me how much time it takes

var List = new System.IO.DirectoryInfo("[Path]").GetFiles("*.*").Where(p => p.CreationTime > Convert.ToDateTime("25 Jan 2012") && p.CreationTime > Convert.ToDateTime("30 Jan 2012"));

Posted 9-Jan-13 0:39am

Suvabrata Roy

Updated 9-Jan-13 0:45am

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