How to find a file on the computer

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How to find a file on the computer with certain characters and three unknown character in C #

Posted 18-Sep-12 18:49pm

javad asadi

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Sep-12 0:51am

What, with two unknown characters is not good enough? :-)
Anyway, what did you try?

...and, with ASP.NET, do you want to find it on client or server host? Do you know you won't have access to the client, and not to all of the server computer, for a good reason?
--SA

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**AmitGajjar** · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-18T19:04:00

Hi,

First of all Searching for a file in computer is not good practice if you have web application, As it will search in the Server for the file. Hosting server will not allow you to search for the file in system, instead you can search within folder in your application.

Secondly if you have windows application then you can create recursive function to read each files and folders for your searching criteria. Although it will take a lot of time to execute so you need to implement BackgroundWorker to process for this.

Let us know further information or try something.

Best luck