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Traverse a Hard Disk

I have a two checked listboxes, I would like to go through a harddisk
using the drive and directory enumerations. But I would like to keep the
program from going into the system info directory. Then put this in the
checked list and when the user clicks a directory, the program put the
filenames and extension in a ini file like this:

file1="filename.ext","dir"

How is this done?

John


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Nov 20 '05 #1
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In article <#q**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>, rb**@vei.net says...
I have a two checked listboxes, I would like to go through a harddisk
using the drive and directory enumerations.
The System.IO.Directory class should allow you to do this (see the
GetDirectories and GetFiles methods).
But I would like to keep the
program from going into the system info directory.


The "System Volume Information" directory? I don't think any user (even
an Administrator) can get into that directory. Just skip it if it's
name comes up.

--
Patrick Steele
Microsoft .NET MVP
http://weblogs.asp.net/psteele
Nov 20 '05 #2
In article <#q**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>, rb**@vei.net says...
I have a two checked listboxes, I would like to go through a harddisk
using the drive and directory enumerations.
The System.IO.Directory class should allow you to do this (see the
GetDirectories and GetFiles methods).
But I would like to keep the
program from going into the system info directory.


The "System Volume Information" directory? I don't think any user (even
an Administrator) can get into that directory. Just skip it if it's
name comes up.

--
Patrick Steele
Microsoft .NET MVP
http://weblogs.asp.net/psteele
Nov 20 '05 #3

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