Get Files from folder and sub folders that contains a restricted folder or file.

[Tyler Wiebe]

Okay, I need to get every audio file on a hard drive, and move them to a single location sorted by the first letter of the artists name, artists name, album, and song title.

I have the code to do that, and it worked on one of the hard drives I'm organizing files from, but the other two contain secured folders and files, and I get an exception when I try and get access to them, and my program justs stops and won't continue.

I'm using something like the following

        public System.Collections.Generic.List<string> GetFiles(string StartingDirectory)
        {
            System.Collections.Generic.List<string> Extensions = new System.Collections.Generic.List<string>();
            Extensions.Add("mp3");
            //More Extensions

            System.Collections.Generic.List<string> Files = new System.Collections.Generic.List<string>();
            foreach (string Extension in Extensions)
            {
                foreach (string File in System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(StartingDirectory, "*." + Extension, System.IO.SearchOption.AllDirectories)) Files.Add(File);
            }
            return Files;
        }

Any help would be appreciated, and sooner the better.

[PsychoCoder]

You could run the application in admin mode (not sure that would help though) other than that I cannot think of a way since the Windows installation has restricted folders & files that aren't accessible (for security purposes)

[Tyler Wiebe]

Thank you, I'm assuming it worked since it's actually running longer then 1 second. I'm still going through all the files, but it's moved about 250 files that it wasn't before.

Thanks you again.

[GaryTexmo]

Another option you might want to consider is catching your exceptions. In general, code that can generate exceptions should be placed within a try/catch block. This block can surround any code you wish, so there would be nothing stopping you from doing something like...

foreach (string folder in foldersToProcess)
{
  try
  {
    // Do whatever...
  }
  catch (Exception exception)
  {
    someLog.AddMessage(string.Format("Could not process folder, '{0}', reason: {1}", folder, exception.Message));
  }
}

That might help your program recover more gracefully from exceptions :)

[Tyler Wiebe]

Okay, I hadn't had a chance to reply yet, but it turns out that giving it administrator privileges doesn't help, the only reason it was working for a bit was because I accidentally set it to search only the top directory and not all of the directories.