Not getting all files due to special directory...

abhijit walke

16y22.2k

Hello friends,

foreach (FileInfo fi in new DirectoryInfo(filePath).GetFiles("*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories))
{

}

I am using above code to get all files in selected path, if i select E:\ then "System Volume Information" folder will not be accessible and foreach will throw exception and its come out of loop. not getting other folder/files.

please suggest how can we get all files/folder except special folder???

Thanks and Regards,

Abhijit

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Ankur16y ago
Accepted answer
Hello Abhijit,

i think following might help:

string filePath = "your path here";
DirectoryInfo[] DInfo = new DirectoryInfo(filePath).GetDirectories();
for (int i = 0; i < DInfo.Count(); i++)
{
            try
            {
                FileInfo[] files = DInfo[i].GetFiles("*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories);
                foreach (FileInfo fInfo in files)
                {
                    //implement your logic here
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {

                //Match Criteria if access permission then ignore
            }
}

the trick is to ignore the error caused by access permission.

Thanks and Regards
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abhijit walke16y ago

Hello ankur,
Here i found best answer using recursion

public static void SearchDirectories(string directory, bool recurse)

{

DirectoryInfo info = new DirectoryInfo(directory);

try

{

Console.WriteLine(info.FullName);

if (recurse)

{

foreach (string subDir in Directory.GetDirectories(directory))

SearchDirectories(subDir, recurse);

}

catch

{

Console.WriteLine("Unable to access directory {0}", directory);

}

Thanks and REgards,
Abhijit