Copy all files in subfolders to another folder using c# with subfolder name

Question

My source path is C:\images\ in which I have hundreds of folders called Album-1, Album-2 etc. I create a target path F:\AllPics. And then I want to move all the files inside my albums to the target path, so that I get all the images in one folder with subfolder names like album-1_img1,album2-img2. How can I do this ?

Answer 1

Look at the File & Directory classes. You can iterate through the files in a directory similar to this (may need tweeks) There are options to include directories etc.

// Process the list of files found in the directory.
string [] fileEntries = Directory.GetFiles(targetDirectory);
foreach(string fileName in fileEntries)
    ProcessFile(fileName);

// Recurse into subdirectories of this directory.
string [] subdirectoryEntries = Directory.GetDirectories(targetDirectory);
foreach(string subdirectory in subdirectoryEntries)
    ProcessDirectory(subdirectory);

Answer 2

namespace MassFileMoverConsole
{
    class Program
    {
        string _sourcePath;
        string _targetPath;

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Program massMover = new Program();
            massMover.MoveThemAll();
        }

        void MoveThemAll()
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Enter source path : ");
            _sourcePath  = Console.ReadLine();
            Console.WriteLine("Enter target path : ");
            _targetPath = Console.ReadLine();

            var subFolderNamesTargetPath = Directory.GetDirectories(_sourcePath);
            foreach(var subFolderName in subFolderNamesTargetPath)
            {
                var subFolder = new DirectoryInfo(subFolderName);
                var subFolderFiles = subFolder.GetFiles();
                foreach(var subFolderFile in subFolderFiles)
                {
                    var fileNewName = subFolder.Name + "_" + subFolderFile.Name;
                    subFolderFile.CopyTo(Path.Combine(_targetPath, fileNewName));
                }
            }

        }
    }
}