Efficient way to get files and copy from Remote to local

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I was trying to get the list of files in my remote directory and check only the file has name "test", then copy to my local directory.

Just did a simple thing here, but can someone please let me know the best way to handle this scenario.

C#

class Program
   {
       static void Main(string[] args)
       {
           var getfiles = new fileshare.Program();
           string[] filteredfiles =getfiles.GetFileList();


           foreach (string file in filteredfiles)
           {
               if(file.Contains("test"))
               {
                   getfiles.copytolocal(file);
               }

           }

       }

       private string[] GetFileList()
       {
           string[] filepaths = Directory.GetFiles(@"\\testserver\dev");
           return filepaths;
       }
       private void copytolocal(string filename)
       {
           File.Copy(filename, @"C:\" + filename);
       }
   }

Even I just stuck up when I was copy the file, the filename contains the whole directory inside the filename so filename look like "\\\\testserver\\dev\\test.txt".
It failed to copy in to local folder.

Posted 3-Mar-12 20:44pm

shan1395

Updated 3-Mar-12 20:53pm

André Kraak

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El_Codero · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-04T02:54:00

Hi,

maybe you try this way to copy your remote testfile to local server.

C#

string[] fileEntries = Directory.GetFiles(@"YOUR_SERVER_DIRECTORY");
           foreach (string fileName in fileEntries)
               ProcessFile(fileName);

C#

public static void ProcessFile(string filename)
{
             FileInfo finfo = new FileInfo(filename);

             //finfo.Name = only the name of the file, finfo.FullName = full path of the file including filename,
             if (finfo.Name == "test")
             {
                 File.Copy(finfo_fir.FullName,@"C:\DESTINATION_PATH");
             }  
}

If you try to increase the performance of copying a file, the delivered File.Copy()-Method is pretty robust.
In some cases it's certainly possible to increase the Performance by taking care of a few things like using Asynchcronus FileStreams in Multithreading and taking care of your buffersize and adjusting it to the RAM.
Here's a very good discussion about it:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1286354/how-to-make-my-application-copy-file-faster[^]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1246899/file-copy-vs-manual-filestream-write-for-copying-file[^]

Regards