Delete Multiple Files That Are Named Same But Have Different Extensions?
Jan 6, 2010
I have certain files that need deleted every time I run my program. There are some files that start with f. and then end with .00000668 or .00005396 and so on. Here is my coding that is not working to delete the f files.
I'm trying to delete all the files in the same folder that have the same name but different extensions, such as CurrentWallpaper.bmp, CurrentWallpaper.jpg, CurrentWallpaper.png, without putting them in a separate folder. How could I go about doing this? I tried doing
Dim bg As String = dir + "" + Login.UsernameTextBox.Text Kill(bg + "CurrentWallpaper.*")
but it didn't work. PS: I would also like to use the same technique for loading the image as a background image instead of having to do this:
Try If My.Computer.FileSystem.FileExists(Login.UsernameTextBox.Text + "/CurrentWallpaper.jpg") Then Me.BackgroundImage = Image.FromFile(Login.UsernameTextBox.Text + "/CurrentWallpaper.jpg") End If
I'm working on trying to split a large file from say 3gb to multiple 500mb files with a .1, .2, .3 etc... extension. My output is one 500mb file and one 28kb file. What I'm missing to continue reading the filestream into the 2nd split file.
Sub SplitFiles(ByVal inFile As String, ByVal newFileSizeBytes As Integer) Dim i As Short = 1 Dim fsInput As New System.IO.FileStream(inFile, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read) Dim fsOutput As System.IO.FileStream Dim bytBuffer(4096) As Byte 'holds a block of bytes for processing [Code] .....
I was trying to do something like this (that worked with the Kill method of VB6) System.IO.File.Delete(OrderInfo.ParentFolderPath & "NJ0*.DTA") because there are several files that start with NJ0 and end with .DTA
I am trying to delete multiple files (.reg files) by using following code.
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My.Computer.FileSystem.DeleteFile(Environ("%systemdrive%") & "*.reg")ut its is generating an exception: Argument Exception was Unhandled.Illegal Characters in path.
How is it possible to delete all the items from a ListBox that have the same extension? This is in particular to video files that have have extensions of .mpg, .modd and .moff. I can populate the ListBox with just the .mpg files but I would like to know how I can remove the other file types should I put the whole lot in.Also, presumably using similar coding, it it posssible to highlight all lines with a particular extension?
have a script which puts multiple files into a folder periodically. I have a code to delete file. this code should run but gives me error that file does not exist.
' for each objFile1 in FSO.GetFolder(strPath2&""&acctdir&""&acctsubdir).Files ' acctno1 = Mid(objFile1.Name,1,11) ' if acctno1 = acctno then
i am using the getfiles function to have all the files in a specific path but i want to use the getfiles to find .rar and .mp3 getfiles("c:program files",)
Dim dir As New IO.DirectoryInfo(FolderBrowserDialog.SelectedPath) Dim files As IO.FileInfo() Dim filename As IO.FileInfo If (rbNoSubfolders.Checked) Then
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I'm getting an "Illegal characters in path" error. How can I fix this?
Path = "C:" For Each FoundFile In My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFiles(Path, FileIO.SearchOption.SearchTopLevelOnly, "FILE*.10") _ And For Each FoundFile In My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFiles(Path, FileIO.SearchOption.SearchTopLevelOnly, "FILE*.09") 'do code
Next My goal is simply to search for multiple file extensions. I cant use FILE* as my search parameter as this returns other files e.g FILE2012.10z which i don't want.
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I want to design an application that can open file of certain extensions. For ex. There is a software called ARJ32 which can open file with extensions .a00 ,.a01...................,.a19. Also there is application called apk emulator which can open .apk files. So eve I want to design an application that an open certain file extensions. Is it possible? How do I start? I am well versed with c, c++, Java, VB.NET
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Private Sub SaveAsToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles SaveAsToolStripMenuItem.Click timedate.Stop()[code]......
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Have the following code which creates a table of all the images in a folder.[code]What I want to do now is group all these by the first two characters and get the total number for each and insert them into individual strings. So for the above example it would be something like:[code]
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I've got some advice about how to do this; named pipes looks likes the best "technical" solution. However I'm wondering if communicating with simple very small text "status" files would be a better, less complicated and less error-risk, way. I prefer the solution that is the most resource friendly.
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How should I handle this:
A site map for each web.config file - don't know how this will work Removing the sub web.config file to only use a single one
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Module Module1 Sub combine() Dim img1 As New Bitmap("i1.jpg")
I'm developing an application to help law enforcement retrieve and analyze logs and other files left by the use of Pidgin (a multi-protocol messenger client). Right now I'm nearly done, but I want to add the ability to search chat logs for user-defined words or phrases and I don't even know where to begin.
Chat logs are stored as html documents in a folder/sub-folder/sub-folder/sub-folder fashion, where each sub-folder can have dozens of sub-folders inside of it, and the final sub-folder can have dozens if not hundreds of chat logs. If anybody could point me in the right direction, I'd be very grateful.
(Also, this is the first program I've written since about 2005, and I'm essentially teaching myself VB as I go. If you'd like to see what I've cobbled together so far, you can find the program here.)
I am trying to delete multiple rows from a GridView but I am struggling to find out if a check box was checked.At the moment my code isn't attempting to delete anything just check which checkboxes were checked and which weren't. My attempt isn't showing any checkboxes as being checked and also seems to loop though the GridView rows twice!
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