Getfiles - Find Most Recent File In Directory?
Feb 20, 2012
I'm trying to load the most recent file from a directory, but my following code doesn't work. Am i getting something obvious terribly wrong?!
Dim myFile = Directory.GetFiles("C:UsersJoeDesktopXML Logs").OrderByDescending(Function(f) f.LastWriteTime).First()
I get two error messages:
Data type(s) of the type parameter(s) in extension method 'Public Function OrderByDescending(Of TKey)(keySelector As System.Func(Of String, TKey)) As System.Linq.IOrderedEnumerable(Of String)' defined in 'System.Linq.Enumerable' cannot be inferred from these arguments. Specifying the data type(s) explicitly might correct this error.
And:
'LastWriteTime' is not a member of 'String'.
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Jun 9, 2012
I have a directory 'C:Test' with three files in it:
A23456789.txt
A1.txt
G 5.txt
And I run this command:
Dim FileArr = Directory.GetFiles("C:Test", "*1.txt", SearchOption.AllDirectories)
All three files are returned.I understand that this is by design and .NET searches the 8.3 short file names as well.But is there any way to override this and search the actual file names only?Surely, in this day and age there must be a function to do this. Or do I have to write my own?I would like the search function to have the same behavior as the Windows Explorer for consistency.
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Apr 6, 2011
I can't figure out how to use the (because im noob)ystem.io.directory.getfilesIf I try to put it in a textbox for example textbox1.text = system.io.directory.getfiles("my directory") then I just get the error message "Value type of '1-dimensional string of array' cannot be converted to 'string'. First of all I have no idea what the '1-dimensional string of array'thing is.And if I try to put in a msgbox for example sgbox(system.io.directory.getfiles("my directory")) then I can run the program but when I click my button then it says "it can not convert argument prompt to string(google translated)". And second, I don't know what the prompt thing is either
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Apr 27, 2009
I am wondering if there is a simple method to filter the result returned by Directory.GetFiles(). Basically I am looking to retrive all of the jpg files in a selected folder into an array. My current code works fine if the folder only has jpgs in it which should be the case in operation but I would like to make sure it works correctly when the folder contains other types of files as well. The line I am currently using is..
Code:
files = Directory.GetFiles(IMAGE_DIRECTORY) files is defined as an array earlier in the program and as I mentioned my program works fine when the folder has nothing but jpegs within. The problem is that I am creating a listview with thumbnails from these files and run into some indexing issues when there are non jpgs in the target folder. The easiest solution would seem to be a filter on the getfiles method that would return only files witht he given extension.
Anyone know how to do this or will I need to parse the files out of the array in a second process?
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Jan 18, 2010
i need to set more filters (or patterns) in:
vbcode
System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(path, "*.jpg")
i need to get not only jpg but more extension,how?
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Sep 20, 2011
I'm using Silverlight 4 OOB & elevated trust.
I need to get all the filenames on specific directory & populate an object List(Of String)
The compiler throws an error "Method not found" on .Getfiles() method.
Dim files() As String = System.IO.Directory.Getfiles(Path) 'this line is failing..
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Aug 18, 2010
In the code below I got a UnauthorizedAccessException unhandled, access is denied to the directory
'c:WindowsSystem32LogFilesWMIRtBackup'.
A first chance exception of type
'System.UnauthorizedAccessException'
occurred in mscorlib.dll.
How can I make the search only in allowed access directory's???
Dim searchResults As String() = Directory.GetFiles("c:", "*.idw", SearchOption.AllDirectories)
For Each result As String In searchResults
MessageBox.Show(result)
Next
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Mar 4, 2011
I am using this to loop through a directory and grab the last modified date for all of the files. How I do find the last or most recent modified date?
Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal er As EventArgs)
Dim info As DirectoryInfo = New DirectoryInfo("C:InetpubwwwrootG269_FocusUploads")
Dim files As FileInfo()
files = info.GetFiles("*.pdf")
[code]....
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Apr 26, 2010
This is the code I have set up to scan a directory of files:
Dim fileArray() As String
fileArray = Directory.GetFiles(System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory & "help")
And it successfully gets all files in the directory, but it gets their absolute paths as well. For example, one of the entries in fileArray() is:
F:ProjectProjectinx86Debughelpook_troubleshoot.html
And I want it to just be:
book_troubleshoot.html
Is there a way to do this without parsing through all the array entries to trim off the path?
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Jan 2, 2012
When I have a directory setup with a subdirectory and both the top directory and sub directory have files in them I get a list of all the files with no directory info. That's OK, but I need to restore them to another location with the same directory structure in place. I'm essentially copying all files in a directory and it's subs to another location. The problem is the sub directory info is not in the files list so everything goes into the main directory. How do I get around this or can I? Here is what I'm using now.
I have a directory, NewProg in Program Files and a sub directory under it called Sub.
files=dir.getfiles("C:Program FilesNewProg",searchoption.alldirectories)
My.Computer.FileSystem.CopyFile("C:Program FilesNewProg" & File.Name, "C:NewProg" & File.Name,True)The Sub directory is not created and even when it is there, it always comes up empty with all it's files copied into the main NewProg.
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May 13, 2011
the application is used to find a given file name in a given file directory and put messages to remind user at a given time.
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Dec 6, 2009
im trying to find a file in a directory with a specified file path
filePath(j) = B:\Movies\Action\Transformers 2
im searching for front cover, when i find it im loading it into my picture box
If path.Contains(trimFilmTitle) = True Then
'find Front Cover
file_names = My.Computer.FileSystem.FindInFiles(filePath(j), "folder-front", True,
[Code]......
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Apr 20, 2011
I am using Directory.Getfiles(DirPath,"Pattern")to locate specific files in a folder. This works fine unless no files are found. How can I get my code to determine whether no files have been found?
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May 21, 2009
I have a fairly straight forward peice of code that just tries to set the default saved directory for a standard .net save dialogue to a specific folder. If that folder doesn't exist, it sets it to the desktop. This works fine for everyone but one user who is getting the following error: Could not find special directory 'Desktop' How is that even possible?
[Code]....
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Sep 5, 2011
I have a process serves as an application updater.It checks it's local cache of files and compares this against list of files online.On it's first run there are no files in the local cache and it therefore downloads ~100 of these files.[code]This appears to work very well, since Explorer confirms that all files are extracted and available.However when I later run this process again, it cannot verify the existence of 6 of these files and therefore tries to download them despite the fact that they are clearly both present and up to date.The offending code is a simple File.Exists call which appears to deny the local existence of these files, and therefore tries to get them again.The system continues to work well, but over time the continual downloading of these 6 files is going to get kind of silly.
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May 23, 2012
i am trying to create a recent files list. [Code] I've looked and i don't want to use a MRU list as i want it so that it can be used on several devices, i.e. running off a memory stick.
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Mar 11, 2011
How to add a file history to my Main Menu. I open my windows application and select a txt file to open called "File 1". Later I open "File 2" and "File 3". I have now closed the windows application. A day later I open my windows application again. How do I view the recent files selected to my FILE menu? For example, I would expect to see "File 1", "File 2", and "File 3" under recent files. This would allow the user to easily reference the past recent files that were opened. Word and Excel have the feature and I am sure it can be done in VS2005.
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Nov 11, 2011
I'm using the following code.
Dim dir As New IO.DirectoryInfo(FolderBrowserDialog.SelectedPath)
Dim files As IO.FileInfo()
Dim filename As IO.FileInfo
If (rbNoSubfolders.Checked) Then
[Code]...
I'm getting an "Illegal characters in path" error. How can I fix this?
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Jan 6, 2012
I have a project where I am looping thru specific files in a directory using a For Each FileInfo in DirectoryInfo.GetFiles() statement. My question is if I overwrite the current FileInfo object, will it still retain the reference to the object even though the file is no longer the same?
Code Snippet:
For Each fi In folder.GetFiles("*.idx")
Dim reader As IO.StreamReader = fi.OpenText()
index = reader.ReadLine()
values = index.Split(",")
[code]....
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Jun 10, 2011
I'm doing a project now. I'm having a problem on getting specific file type from my computer using the .getfiles function.
Here's my codes.
Private Sub dlgOpen_FileOk(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) Handles dlgOpen.FileOk
Dim filepath as String = "C:"
dlgOpen.CheckFileExists = True
[CODE]...
What I wanted to happen is when the openfiledialog prompted and once I've selected the file, the file information I've specified above must show on the application as a label. But nothing appears. The file name only appears on the text box beside the open button. It should also appear above the button and the text box as a label. How could i possibly do that? And how could I select just one file at a time from a folder with 150 other files in it? When I use getFiles, it only gets all at the same time everything that's in the folder even if i've only just selected one file.
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Feb 20, 2011
I am trying to find a specific file in a specific directory and then i need to get the full path of the file.Is this possible i cant find any help topics about a specific file.
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Jul 20, 2010
I'm creating a simple .NET console application where I want to save a file in a folder that's part of the root project, like so: SolutionName.ProjectNameTestData. I want to put test.xml into the TestData folder. However, when I go to save my XDocument, it saves it to SolutionName.ProjectNameinx86Debug Console est.xml.
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Feb 9, 2012
copying the file from one Directory to another directory by create the folder if that folder is not exists in destination directory.Example:
Source path: C: emp est1.txt
destination path: C:Data
if C:Data doesn't contains "temp" or "test" folder, it should create the folder before copy the 1.txt.[code]....
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Jun 30, 2009
I'll tell you what I'd like to do which is to create a directory listing of every file inside a specified directory and then use a loop to upload each file in this directory to a remote folder via FTP.
[Code]...
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Mar 21, 2012
I've written an application [Visual Studio 2005 / VB) that works fine when I build it on my Win 7 PC.But when I try to install it XP as a test it falls over imediately on a 'file.exists' call made to establish if the data file exists or not (and if not then create it).
But it raises an exception because it can't find the directory that the file is supposed to be in. For the files location I was using Application.ExecutablePath but on the XP machine it is some weird directory like
Code:
[Code]...
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Jun 28, 2010
I'm trying to look in the program files for a directory(the gimp directory). I could hard code it but they change the file name and the exe name with the versions. So I only know that the folder contains the word gimp. How do I search for it only knowing a portion of the file name.
My.Computer.FileSystem.FindInFiles(Environment.SpecialFolder.ProgramFilesX86, "gimp", True, FileIO.SearchOption.SearchTopLevelOnly)
This is the code that I've tried but it just doesn't work.
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Dec 29, 2005
I've been trying to find the size of a directory with vb.net but not having much luck. I've tried things like: My.Computer.FileSystem.GetDirectoryInfo(basePath). but no appropriate methods or properties are coming up.
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Dec 7, 2009
I have a vb.net program that initially finds the directory where application data can be stored with the following command.[code]....
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Nov 20, 2010
i am trying to use code to find search for a folder and it will give me back the full directory root. I am using this code:
[Code]...
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Mar 8, 2012
I am trying to find out the Active Directory Group that the current user belongs to. I have the current users username stored in strUserName and have got this [code]....
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