Flies deletion with recent date

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I want to delete more than 1000 txt files in Folder...

and i want to delete all files but except recently recreated 5 text files..

Posted 28-Aug-12 19:22pm

rajamuthaiahv

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Nithin Sundar · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-28T19:27:00

Solution 1

Probably you can iterate through your files and use the function below for each file according to whatever time you want to set

File.GetCreationTime (MSDN)[^]

This gets you the time the file was created and you can use the time you have set for deletion to compare with this.

Posted 28-Aug-12 19:27pm

Nithin Sundar

rajamuthaiahv · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-28T19:36:00

DirectoryInfo dinfo = new DirectoryInfo(@"D:\c sharp and asp\files");
FileInfo[] Files = dinfo.GetFiles("*.pdf");
foreach (FileInfo file in Files)
{//File.GetCreationTime
if (file.Exists)
{
System.DateTime dtToday = DateTime.Now;
TimeSpan tdDiff=dtToday-file.LastWriteTime;
int i = 0;
i = tdDiff.Days;

if (i >5)
{
file.Delete();

}
else
{

}
}

I am using like this to using TimeSpan but is code delete all files but except recent 5 days files ..

but i need recently created 5 files and delete older date files...