Delete all the files from folder

Question

Hi,

I have a folder called C:\MyFolder. This folder has pdf and excel files. I just want to delete all files from folder. I see lot of forums showing code to loop thru all files in a folder and delete each. In other examples,  delete code deletes entire folder that mean MyFolder also gets deleted. Need to recreate everytime. What I am looking is something like

directory.deleteAllFiles

syntax which deletes all files, but keeps the folder empty.

We are using asp.net c#. I need this to work both in 2.0 and 4.0

Please let me know if there are any links.

Thanks,

Spunny.

Answer 1

HI

Have you tried this

IO.Directory.Delete("folderPath",true)

ref :http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.directory.delete(v=vs.110).aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fxeahc5f(v=vs.110).aspx

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Shridhar J Joshi Thanks a lot

Answer 2

Thank you Shridhar for quick response. As I said in my post it deletes directory, subdirectory and files. In my case, your code deletes 'MyFolder' also. I don't want that to happen. I want only files to be deleted and not main directory.

Answer 3

Try this code

System.IO.DirectoryInfo dirinfo = new DirectoryInfo(@"C:\MyFolder");

foreach (FileInfo file in dirinfo.GetFiles())
{
    file.Delete();
}
foreach (DirectoryInfo dir in dirinfo.GetDirectories())
{
    dir.Delete(true);
}

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Ashish Pandey

Answer 4

Try this

For Each s As String In IO.Directory.GetFiles("Your folder name")
            IO.File.Delete(s)
        Next
        For Each s As String In IO.Directory.GetDirectories("Your folder name")
            IO.Directory.Delete(s, True)
        Next

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Shridhar J Joshi Thanks a lot

Answer 5

Thank you Shridhar and Ashish. I requested to know if there is any single line of code to delete all files without deleting directory with out looping through each file.

Spunny.

Answer 6

Spunny :  Back up your folders and try this below which deletes main folder and sub folders..

  new DirectoryInfo(@"C:\temp\").GetFiles("*",SearchOption.AllDirectories).ToList().ForEach(x => File.Delete(x.FullName));