Attempts to delete each file and subdirectory in . Not guaranteed to succeed, but will not throw an exception - CSharp System.IO

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Attempts to delete each file and subdirectory in . Not guaranteed to succeed, but will not throw an exception

Demo Code


using System.Text;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.IO;//  w w  w.  ja v a  2  s .  c om
using System;

public class Main{
        /// <summary>
        /// Attempts to delete each file and subdirectory in <paramref name="path"/>. Not guaranteed to succeed, but will not throw an exception
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="path"></param>
        public static void TryDeleteFolderRecursively(string path)
        {
            if (!Directory.Exists(path))
                return;

            
            foreach (string file in Directory.GetFiles(path, "*.*", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly))
            {
                try
                {
                    File.Delete(file);
                }
                catch { /* carry on */ }
            }


            foreach (string directory in Directory.GetDirectories(path, "*.*", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly))
            {
                TryDeleteFolderRecursively(directory);
            }


            try
            {
                Directory.Delete(path);
            }
            catch  { /* carry on */}

        }
}

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