How to use sdelete to remove non empty folders file in C#

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string PathToClean = @"C:\sdelete -p 1 -s -a " + repositoryUrls[i];

What I have tried:

here repositoryurls[i] is a string array to used sdelete. But i want to delete only files from particular path not a folder. if folder is empty then it should not be deleted.

Posted 20-Apr-16 22:04pm

Shrikesh_kale

Updated 4-Sep-19 9:25am

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phil.o 21-Apr-16 4:05am

And what is sdelete exactly? Where does this executable come from?

Shrikesh_kale 21-Apr-16 5:12am

it is Microsoft utility for deleting files from folder or dir

ZurdoDev 21-Apr-16 8:03am

You should refer to the documentation for sdelete to know what its options are.

snorkie 21-Apr-16 11:03am

SDELETE doesn't have any flags that will do this. Do you have to use sdelete? A simple recursive function would do this.

Philippe Mori 21-Apr-16 12:30pm

Don't use external code for that. And by the way, don't assume it is available in C:\. It should not be here anyway.

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C#

using System;
using System.IO;

namespace EmptyDirectory
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            RecursiveSearch(@"c:\music");

            Console.WriteLine("Finished.");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        private static void RecursiveSearch(string folder)
        {
            foreach (string s in Directory.EnumerateDirectories(folder, "*", SearchOption.AllDirectories).reverse())
            {
                if (Directory.GetFiles(s).Length == 0 && Directory.GetDirectories(s, "*", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly).Length == 0)
                {
                    Directory.Delete(s);
                    Console.WriteLine("Deleted: " + s);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Posted 4-Sep-19 9:25am

Fahad Khan Lashari

Updated 4-Sep-19 9:30am

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Dave Kreskowiak 4-Sep-19 20:55pm

Copying and pasting someones answer as your own? It's really obvious what you did.

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snorkie · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-21T05:05:00

If you don't have to use SDELETE, try messing with the following program. It deletes empty directories from the base directory. You could use this as a starting block and reverse the logic to delete directories with content. Then if you must use SDELETE, you can call it to delete a single directory when one is found.

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C#

using System;
using System.IO;

namespace EmptyDirectory
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            RecursiveSearch(@"c:\music");

            Console.WriteLine("Finished.");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        private static void RecursiveSearch(string folder)
        {
            foreach (string s in Directory.EnumerateDirectories(folder, "*", SearchOption.AllDirectories))
            {
                if (Directory.GetFiles(s).Length == 0 && Directory.GetDirectories(s, "*", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly).Length == 0)
                {
                    Directory.Delete(s);
                    Console.WriteLine("Deleted: " + s);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}