Versioning a file.

[udaykatakam]

Hi, I have an application which transfers file from one location to another specified by the path given by the user.Right now it overwrites the file if the same path and file name is given. But I want it to version the file and store it instead of overwriting it to have all the versions of the file transferred. I want to know the best way to do it in C#.

Uday

[Wendelius]

I would believe that this is purely a naming issue. For example keep all the files but vary the name like ..ver1, ...ver2 etc or place the older files in a different directory and separate different versions in history directory with a different name. File system doesn't typically allow several files with the same name so this cannot be overridden using c# Mika

[udaykatakam]

The problem is the file transfer is predefined so the naming would also be.So the application should check and add version to the file automatically.

Uday

[Wendelius]

Let's take an example. If your destination directory is named DirA and it already contains a file named AnyFile.txt. When you transfer a newer version of this file (for example by greater timestamp), what would you like the directory to contain? \DirA\AnyFile.txt (<- older version) \dirA\??? Mika