Copy files from a folder in c#

Adriaan Stander Adriaan Stander k 28 28 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. And an important thing to note is that you can specify whether the destination file must be overwritten or not by adding the third argument as true or false. It not suport for 2 server different — Tran Anh Hien.

What is the purpose of the? Alfie In C , the sigil is used to declare a verbatim string. Check What is the difference between a regular string and a verbatim string? CopyTo Method Use this method to allow or prevent overwriting of an existing file. Rubens Farias Rubens Farias I tried to copy an xml file from one location to another.

I did this because I needed to name the copied files with respect to time. Combine destinationPath, destinationFileName ; if!

Sajib Mahmood Sajib Mahmood 3, 3 3 gold badges 34 34 silver badges 49 49 bronze badges. Copy can rename already Thorsten Dittmar Thorsten Dittmar You do not have to copy and rename, you can do this in one step using File. Copy — Adriaan Stander. Makes sense I've done so much file renaming in code lately using File. Move that I didn't even think of File. Copy being able to rename, too :- — Thorsten Dittmar.

Copy sourceFileName, destinationFileName ;. Kiran k g Kiran k g 11 11 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. A9S6 A9S6 6, 10 10 gold badges 48 48 silver badges 81 81 bronze badges. This is what I did to move a test file from the downloads to the desktop. I hope its useful. GetFolderPath Environment. Add "Starting: Copy shortcuts to dektop. Copy Path. Combine sourcePath, shortcuts[i] , Path. Combine targetPath, shortcuts[i] , true ; listbox1.

Altaf Ansari89 Feb am. Posted Sep am sirazuddin. I would suggest create FileSystemWatcher on specified folder Posted Sep am Sibeesh KV. Posted May pm Thomas Nielsen - getCore. Try with, Code:. Posted Sep am Member Use task scheduler that is available at your web hosting if exists. Posted Apr am adriancs.

Create a windows service and use timer control to copy the files as required. Shown below is bare bones example. Posted Apr am Kaushik S Murthy. Generic; using System. ComponentModel; using System. Data; using System. Diagnostics; using System. Linq; using System. ServiceProcess; using System. Text; using System. IO; using System. Posted Aug am ambesh kumar. Beside that after reading your question I don't think so you are required code for coping folder or files.

Posted 4-Sep pm Manoj B. George Jonsson 5-Sep am. You might have noticed that the question is a year old. Manoj B.

Your code will be executed sequentially, not concurrently. Besides that, you're also including the execution time of Directory. If your really want the time it took to copy the files, you might want to start your timer right before the loop and end it right after the loop. Oh, and the code will stop executing if an error occurs - until you've closed the message box which may falsify your time while it's open.

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