find files

[musefan]

what string are you passing in as the file to find?

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[Baeltazor]

I agree with musefan LOL... but yep, it does work :D

[michaelgr1]

for example; 061_pmr_c0_txhb_cut_rxhb_to_smx.vl.GIF

[Luc Pattyn]

Yes it works. There are some disadvantages: it will search all before it returns anything. (And the results may be huge). .NET 4.0 will offer some new methods, enumerating while searching, rather than building an array. And a limitation: it only works well as long as a single filter is all you need. Finding all BMP, GIF, PNG, JPEG would need many of those (resulting in a different order), or another tactic. :)

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[WinSolution]

Just open visual studio 2005 / latest add one button (to intiate click event ), one textbox (contains expression you want to search ), and one listbox to show the results add click event on Button1 by double clicking on it and paste following code //replace mine path with your own DirectoryInfo DirInfo = new DirectoryInfo(@"F:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\"); FileInfo[] DirFiles = DirInfo.GetFiles(textBox1.Text, SearchOption.AllDirectories); listBox1.Items.Clear(); foreach (FileInfo FileObj in DirFiles) { listBox1.Items.Add(FileObj); } goto top of file and add a namespace >> using System.IO; press F5 and run insert expression to search. click on button. result will be displayed to list box. if this doesnot work the provide me email address i will mail my project to you

[Lost User]

Luc Pattyn wrote:

Yes it works.There are some disadvantages: it will search all before it returns anything.

Yes that is right !! :)

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[Lost User]

Why you didn't use my code ? (The first Comment ?) :confused: No offense , it's just a kind of discussion ... :rose: thank you ...

I know nothing , I know nothing ...

[Mike Devenney]

Yep. I use it in a homebaked app to catalog my picture collection.

Mike Devenney

[michaelgr1]

Hello, I tried many ways to do it (as you wrote and another ways) but in all of them it doesn't always find the file i need. For example if the starting path is the immediate folder that contains the file it works fine and finds the file, but when the starting patch is a higher (maybe 2-3 folder upper) it doesn't find this file (i write exactly the same name). It seems it doesn't enough time to the program to collect all the files names inside the folder. I did a little delay but it didn't help. This is my code: foreach (string d in Directory.GetDirectories(Start_dir)) { if (!d.Contains("Shared Documents")) { System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(200); foreach (string f in Directory.GetFiles(d)) { //MessageBox.Show(f); if (f.Contains(search)) { Process.Start(f); review_file_found = true; return; } } dirsearch(d, search); } }

[michaelgr1]

Or it even seems as it doesn't have enough memory to do this search. Because files (in directories) that are located in the "beginning of the list" it finds (and opens), But files that are located a little "deeper" in the list he can't file and even the application get stucked in such situations

[WinSolution]

If there is way so i can send you the project just replace the path, recompile, run the project. put expression and click on the button. list will be displayed. It is working on my PC.

[michaelgr1]

OK, You can send me it to michgr@nana.co.il thanks very much

[WinSolution]

here is it download it http://rapidshare.com/files/238592801/WindowsApplication1.rar.html[^]

[WinSolution]

i have sent a mail also to you i was in hurry so without subject

[michaelgr1]

OK thanks, I will try it and let you know

[michaelgr1]

Hi, The code you sent me works fine, but very very slow. My code works much faster: foreach (string d in Directory.GetDirectories(Start_dir)) { if (!d.Contains("Shared Documents") && !d.Contains("Anna") && !d.Contains("CE Group") && !d.Contains("DEF") && !d.Contains("DtReport") && !d.Contains("images") && !d.Contains("Lists") && !d.Contains("MMGBD") && !d.Contains("Site") && !d.Contains("SP Requests") && !d.Contains("STAM") && !d.Contains("Training") && !d.Contains("uptest") && !d.Contains("X5") && !d.Contains("X8") && !d.Contains("Form") && !d.Contains("Yonah")) { //System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(200); foreach (string f in Directory.GetFiles(d)) { //System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(200); //MessageBox.Show(f); m=f.Replace("\\"+"\\moss.ger.ith.intel.com\\sites\\MPGBD-03\\HAL\\PD\\",""); //MessageBox.Show(m); if (m.Contains(search1)) { MessageBox.Show("found"); //System.Net.WebClient client = new WebClient(); //client.UseDefaultCredentials = true; //client.DownloadFile(f, @"c:\\123.gif"); //Process.Start(@"c:\\123.gif"); //System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(500); //Process.Start(f); review_file_found = true; return; } } dirsearch(d, search1); } } The problem is that with this code (with the messagebox.show("found") it finds the file (the message appears). But when i usethe process.start and try to open the file or even to download it it seems as it doesn't see the file at all (some files it sees and some not). It seems as it doesn't enter the if condition at all (even don't do the - review_file_found=true because outside this method i check the status of the bool and show a messagebox says the file not