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Sebastian
Sebastian

Reputation: 514

Delete folder with C#

I'm new on C# and I will make a simple tool that has a button to delete all folders in documents and settings, but not the administrator folders.

Can some one tell me how I can do this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2223

Answers (3)

David
David

Reputation: 218827

There's a lot of argument going on here, and the answers provided so far will technically work. But let's try a different approach... Why do you want to do this? As you may have surmised by the responses so far, this is probably not a good idea. So maybe with some background on the need being addressed by this software we can perhaps provide more useful answers?

Edit: So you're planning to walk around to each PC with a USB stick and mass-delete? Still doesn't seem like a good approach. Some quick Googling just turned up this, which may work for you. Best part, it works remotely. So that'll remove the "walking around to each PC" part of your task.

Upvotes: 0

msarchet
msarchet

Reputation: 15242

You can use System.IO.DirectoryInfo and then call the Delete(true) method to recursively delete all of the Folders and files within your specified folder.

MSDN Directory Info

Now to only delete the non-Administrator folders do you mean the ones owned by administrator or the ones owned by an administrator. Also you won't be able to Delete folders that the current user doesn't own, so you are going to get some exceptions off of this anyways just blindly deleting.

Edit in response to some various comments

You can actually do some iterating over the DirectorySecurity and FileSecurity (I think that's the file one) to figure out the owners group for the Directory or File, and from there determine if it's an admin.

Upvotes: -1

bmancini
bmancini

Reputation: 2028

You can use DirectoryInfo 

System.IO.DirectoryInfo dir = new System.IO.DirectoryInfo("your path");
if (dir.Exists)
     dir.Delete(true);

Upvotes: 2

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