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How To Control The Size Of A File??
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I have a consoleApp written in VB .Net, that writes data to a text file. What I want to accomplish is this - prior to data being written to the text file - if the file.length is over 4.5MB then we deleted 500 lines from the beginning of the file.
Could someone please show me how to trim or delete 500 lines of data from the beginning of the file in this scenario.
Thank-you
mb
I have a consoleApp written in VB .Net, that writes data to a text file. What I want to accomplish is this - prior to data being written to the text file - if the file.length is over 4.5MB then we deleted 500 lines from the beginning of the file.
Could someone please show me how to trim or delete 500 lines of data from the beginning of the file in this scenario.
Thank-you
mb
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What is writing the file, and what is accessing the file?
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StreamWriter is writing to it //
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Your first option does indeed seem more efficient - however, the data that gets written to the file is actually appended. So essentially what I am trying to do is create a file that gets filled from the bottom, and as it grows (when it gets to 4.5MB) data or rows start dropping off or out of the top.
Any thoughts??