Find all files in a folder

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I am looking to create a program that finds all files of a certain type on my desktop and places them into specific folders  for example  I would have all files with  txt into the Text folder   Any ideas what the best way would be to accomplish this  Thanks   I have tried this   string startPath      userprofile  Desktop   string   oDirectories   Directory GetDirectories startPath       Console WriteLine oDirectories Length ToString      foreach  string oCurrent in oDirectories      Console WriteLine oCurrent    Console ReadLine      It was not successful in finding all of the files

User · Accepted Answer

A lot of these answers won t actually work  having tried them myself  Give this a go   string filepath   Environment GetFolderPath Environment SpecialFolder Desktop   DirectoryInfo d   new DirectoryInfo filepath    foreach  var file in d GetFiles    txt            Directory Move file FullName  filepath      TextFiles      file Name       It will move all  txt files on the desktop to the folder TextFiles

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First off  best practice would be to get the users Desktop folder with  string path   Environment GetFolderPath Environment SpecialFolder Desktop     Then you can find all the files with something like  string   files   Directory GetFiles path     txt   SearchOption AllDirectories     Note that with the above line you will find all files with a  txt extension in the Desktop folder of the logged in user AND all subfolders   Then you could copy or move the files by enumerating the above collection like     For copying    foreach  string s in files       File Copy s   C  newFolder newFilename txt              Or for moving foreach  string s in files       File Move s   C  newFolder newFilename txt        Please note that you will have to include the filename in your Copy    or Move    operation  So you would have to find a way to determine the filename of at least the extension you are dealing with and not name all the files the same like what would happen in the above example   With that in mind you could also check out the DirectoryInfo and FileInfo classes  These work in similair ways  but you can get information about your path- filenames  extensions  etc  more easily  Check out these for more info   http   msdn microsoft com en-us library system io directory aspx  http   msdn microsoft com en-us library ms143316 aspx  http   msdn microsoft com en-us library system io file aspx

User · Answer

You can try with Directory GetFiles and fix your pattern   string   files   Directory GetFiles   c        txt      foreach  string file in files         File Copy file                Or Move   foreach  string file in files         File Move file                     http   msdn microsoft com en-us library wz42302f

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