How to delete multiple files with IFileOperation::DeleteItems

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Hi, could you please tell me how to delete multiple files with IFileOperation::DeleteItems? I'm not able to build IShellItemArray with file names. Thank you!

Posted 2-Dec-11 2:57am

Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

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Ștefan-Mihai MOGA · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-02T03:37:00

If you really want to do it with IFileOperation::DeleteItems, your options are listed in the documentation. Easiest in this case is probably SHCreateShellItemArrayFromIDLists. Get the ID Lists from ILCreateFromPath. Second choice would be SHCreateShellItemArrayFromDataObject where your data object contains a CF_HDROP. But it sounds like you aren't all that familiar with manipulating the shell namespace; you should familiarize yourself with that first. Shell items and item arrays and ID Lists are pretty fundamental.