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C# Get files, folders and subfolders path

Hi,
I am trying to develop a little app that retrieves all the files, folders and subfolders for an specific directory, but It is only doing it for the main folder, not subfolders.
Can someone please check what I am doing wrong?
Thanks.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace listaEstructura
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void btnListar_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            GetFiles();
        }

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

        }

        private void GetFiles()
        {
            List<String> Myfiles = new List<string>();
            string[] allFiles = System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(txtRuta.Text, "*.*");

            if (allFiles.Length > 0)
            {
                try
                {
                    foreach (string filename in allFiles)
                    {
                        this.richTextBox1.Text = string.Join(Environment.NewLine, allFiles);
                    }
                }

                catch (SystemException excpt)
                {
                    this.richTextBox1.Text = excpt.Message;
                }
            }
        }

        private void btnDir_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (folderBrowserDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
            {
                txtRuta.Text = folderBrowserDialog1.SelectedPath;
            }
        }
    }
}

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José Perez

ASKER

ups, it was so good that it It now hang my computer :(

Thanks a lot for your quick answer!

José Perez

ASKER

btw is there someway to cancel it? :(

Tapan Pattanaik

Hi José Perez,

Please add "SearchOption.AllDirectories" in your code. Please check the below code.

string[] allFiles = System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(txtRuta.Text, "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories);

Regards,
Tapan Pattaniak

kaufmed

btw is there someway to cancel it?

With that option, no. But you can switch to Directory.EnumerateFiles and be able to do such.

e.g.

private void GetFiles()
{
    List<String> Myfiles = new List<string>();
    IEnumerable[] allFiles = System.IO.Directory.EnumerateFiles(txtRuta.Text, "*.*", System.IO.SearchOption.AllDirectories);

    try
    {
        foreach (string filename in allFiles)
        {
            this.richTextBox1.Text = string.Join(Environment.NewLine, allFiles);
            
            if (someCondition)
            {
              break;
            }
        }
    }

    catch (SystemException excpt)
    {
        this.richTextBox1.Text = excpt.Message;
    }
}

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José Perez

ASKER

It displays an error "Can not convert System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<string> into IEnumerable[]" :(

kaufmed

My fault: I changed the type incorrectly. Corrected:

IEnumerable<string> allFiles = System.IO.Directory.EnumerateFiles(txtRuta.Text, "*.*", System.IO.SearchOption.AllDirectories);

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