CODEWITHSUNDEEP
c#asp.net
Izzy
Izzy

Reputation: 6866

Store uploaded file to a created directory

I am currently working on a website which is developed in asp. One page allows users to send messages and upload files. The file gets uploaded and I can save it to a directory no problem. However the client requires a directory to be created for each logged in user and then to save the uploaded file to that particular directory. I have managed to created the directory using the following code. 

if (!Directory.Exists("\\Users\\uploads " + User.Identity.Name + " " + User.Identity.GetUserId()))
        {
            Directory.CreateDirectory("\\Users\\uploads " + User.Identity.Name + " " + User.Identity.GetUserId());
        }

The directory gets created as required. However I can't seem to save the file to that particular directory. Instead it saves the file to the uploads directory. Does anyone know how I can do that. Thanks in advance

My code for saving the file

FileUpload1.SaveAs("\\Users\\uploads " + User.Identity.Name + " " + User.Identity.GetUserId()));

Upvotes: 0

Views: 157

Answers (4)

andrey.shedko
andrey.shedko

Reputation: 3238

I suppose you must change your code to be as follow:

FileUpload1.SaveAs(Server.MapPath("pathtodirectory" + FileUpload1.FileName));

Upvotes: 0

Yuliia Ashomok
Yuliia Ashomok

Reputation: 8598

Your solution:

string targetPath = "\\Users\\uploads " + User.Identity.Name + " " + User.Identity.GetUserId());
string filePath = Path.Combine(targetPath, Server.HtmlEncode(FileUpload1.FileName));
FileUpload1.SaveAs(filePath);

Upvotes: 0

tdragon
tdragon

Reputation: 3329

I think you are missing file name in FileUpload1.SaveAs(...) method. According to MSDN you need to retrieve FileUpload1.FileName.

Upvotes: 0

CodeCaster
CodeCaster

Reputation: 151594

Clean up the code to create the directory by introducing a variable:

string userDirectory = "\\Users\\uploads " + User.Identity.Name + " " + User.Identity.GetUserId();

if (!Directory.Exists(userDirectory))
{
    Directory.CreateDirectory(userDirectory);
}

And then when saving to that directory, make sure to specifiy a filename instead of a directory:

string filename = Path.Combine(userDirectory, FileUpload1.Filename);

FileUpload1.SaveAs(filename);

See Don't overwrite file uploaded through FileUpload control to make sure you don't overwrite files having the same name.

Upvotes: 4

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