Copy And Pasting A Folder And Sub-Folders?
Jul 18, 2009All i want to to in VB is copy a folder + sub folders, and paste it somewhere else.I cant figure out what it is, and nothing i find online is working
View 1 RepliesAll i want to to in VB is copy a folder + sub folders, and paste it somewhere else.I cant figure out what it is, and nothing i find online is working
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View 1 RepliesI have a program that creates folders with current date. I want to paste my files into folder that uses current date as name of the folder. My code below works great but i have to provide the folder name that the files will be paste into. How can i paste files into folder that uses current date as folder name?
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Xml.Linq
Module Module1
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Have built a project and associated it with a Setup&Deployment Project. The S&D project needs to contain 2 main folders (under User's Desktop) with various formats of files (xmls, txts, dlls) inside them and several subfolders. How can i copy/import these 2 folders and there sub-files/folders into my s&d project?
When adding them in the usual way, they are copied and defined a source path onto the current pc. You can understand what errors this might create when an another targeted pc does not contain those files to the exact location. Is there any way to copy them locally or somehow import them?
I have the following directory structure in my asp.net webdirectory i want when any body access anypage inside my admin folder then it auto redirect to login page of admin folder until they login
View 1 RepliesBasically I am trying to enable the user the ability to select a folder and the folders music files populate a list box. I want two list boxes on the page, one with all the contents of the folder and then the other one for files selected from the first box. I have no clue on how to do this at all...
View 4 RepliesIs there a quicker way to check directories? For example I want to check if the folder "A Folders" contains folders from 000A all the way to 999A then lists the folder that are missing? Do you think this is possible?
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I have a button I use to copy a folder from one location to another.
The code looks like this:
Private Sub Button8_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button8.Click
Const FOLDER_FROM As String = "C:Testcopy1" ' Folder to copy from
Const FOLDER_TO As String = "C:Mappestruktur" 'Folder to create above folder in
Dim newDir As DirectoryInfo = Directory.CreateDirectory(FOLDER_TO & "" & New DirectoryInfo(FOLDER_FROM).Name)
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Now I have a folder in my project I would like to copy to an optional location. How do I set the "Folder from" const to a location inside my project and how can I set an optional location to copy the folder to at runtime?
I'm trying to copy the directories located on a root drive (J:) to another location (c:vagtilleder..)The problem is, the first folder isn't beeing copied.Example:
J:
ootfoldersubfolder1subfolder2
After the copy it should look like this at the destination:
c:vagtilleder..
ootfoldersubfolder1subfolder2
But for some reason, "rootfolder" is not created at the destination, making the destination look like this:
c:vagtilleder..subfolder1subfolder2
where the error is located? OS: Win XP Pro VB 2008 Express.
Dim copytardir As String
Dim copydestdir As String
copytardir = ("J:")
copydestdir = ("C:VagtBilleder" & StrInput)
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I am wanting to get a complete file/folder listing and then copy these files to another folder.
Here is my
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This happens on many folders. How can I get a listing of these folders and also copy these files?
I was assigned a project to create a program of cloning two file servers. It will copy all folders (about 500, one day one folder, there are about 200 files in each day) from one file server (S1) to another file server (S2). If any error occurred while in processing, program will send an email to someone.
View 5 RepliesI have managed to list folders in my listbox1 and the add them to listbox 2.Now, what i need now is to be able to copy the list of folder in listbox2 to another location.below is the code i am using.Browse drive and and fill listbox1 with the folders on that drive.Path.text hold the path to where the folders.
If FolderBrowserDialog.ShowDialog() = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then
Path.Text = FolderBrowserDialog.SelectedPath
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how to copy the foldera nd files in the folder that are listed in listbox2 to another location.
This one has been troubling me for some time , i keep coming back to it researching it for a couple of days on and off then get disheartened and give up for a while.Basically i want to copy one file in to multiple folders that have the same structure except for one distinction
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I want the user to have the option to choose between a lot of pictures in a project folder. So I made a new project folder called: Images.
And when the user presses a certain button this folder should be opened.I want to achieve this like this:
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Public Class Form1
Private Delegate Function CopyProgressRoutine(ByVal totalFileSize As Int64, ByVal totalBytesTransferred As Int64, ByVal streamSize As Int64, ByVal streamBytesTransferred As
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What I would want, is a way to get a count of how many sub-folders another folder consists of. For instance, if "c:TestAppTestFolder" contains the sub-folders "Videos", "Pictures and "Audio", I would somehow want to get the code to get the value '3' in this case.
View 4 RepliesI want to create a destination path having folders inside the folder.
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How to find all files from a folder and from all sub-folders?
View 4 RepliesMy application is very simple:
In my Resources folder, there are four folders. Each has a couple .png images in them.In my form, I have four checklists and one picturebox.
When my application loads, I want each checklist to populate with the names of the images (one checklist for each folder)
When the user clicks on a checklist, the Picturebox will display the corresponding image.
I have downloaded Visual Basic 2010 express.My application is very simple:In my Resources folder, there are four folders. Each has a couple .png images in them.In my form, I have four checklists and one picturebox.When my application loads, I want each checklist to populate with the names of the images (one checklist for each folder)When the user clicks on a checklist, the Picturebox will display the corresponding image.I managed to do pretty much everything, but my problem is, how the heck do I access the Resources folder (and the four folders it holds), when my application is built and shared to other people?
View 1 RepliesHow do I iterate each item in my Resources folder? How do I iterate each item in a folder in my Resources folder?
View 1 RepliesHow can i How to move files,folders from one folder to another using vb.net
View 1 RepliesCan i copy files into folders without providing full name of the file? Different files will be distributed into different folder, my files have current date at the end, it also has split before the date. I would like to copy the files name before the split. Here is an example
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I have been trying to create folders for database backup purposes. These folders were to be based on the current date and time as the name of the folder.[code]...
View 8 Repliesi want to get a random directory from a specified directory, for example, the desktop.
im not sure how to do this, this and the only thing I'm having trouble with for my application
for example i have 5 different directories on the desktop called
Dir1
Dir2
Dir3, etc...
i would like to get Dir3, then maybe Dir1, after that maybe Dir3 again, and so on. i want to get a random directory from the desktop...dont really know how to explain it any better...
A specified a directory - a directory that i specify maybe in a text box for example. or a folder browser dialog
also i just want to get the path of the directory, i dont want to do anything to it.
how do I move couple of folders all into another folder
View 3 RepliesI'm trying to select the files and folders inside a folder to zip up, but what it seems to be doing is selecting all the folders up to the folder i've selected and the files in the final folder but not the folders in there and zipping them up. So for example in tbFolder I have the string: "C:Users ombDesktopDeOldMota7" I want to select this folder and zip up the entire contents of this folder, images and all. But whats happening is the following:
Its creating the folder structure up to the folder i want zipped and adding just the files in side this and not the folders. I'm guessing I need to tweak the line:
System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(DirectoryToZip)
Here is the entire code:
Private Sub btnCreate_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnCreate.Click
Dim ZipFile As String = "C:Releases" & drpService.Text & "-" &
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I have been trying to get a .jpg files from subfolders that get's updated and a new subfolders is created. I have been trying to figure how to code to read the folders/subfolders and to get the .jpeg files copy or move to different folder.
View 8 Repliesi am creating an app that will display the contents of a folder containing hundreds of other folders. these folders are in the following format <Movie.Name>[<Year>]i am trying to create a function that will filter out the years i.e. if i wish to search for movies from 2009 i could use the code 'FilterMovies("2009")' etc... and remove/hide the others.
View 14 RepliesI want to be able to add a folder (and inturn, all of it's contents including subfolders) to a setup project. I can manually add a folder, then manually add all of the files for that folder; but this is a NetHelp folder with lots of subfolders and files.
Is there a way to tell the setup to add everything in a folder to the setup files to be distributed??