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looked all over and found plenty of stuff regarding this but none are using variables to form paths. What I need to do is move a folder, sub-folders and files to a new path on button click. So far none of what I found worked. At the moment, i'm getting no files or folders moved what so ever. The current solution I tried is from MSDN and tried to adapt it to my code. If you could correct the code and show me an example it would be great. I don't know what i'm doing wrong here. Here is the code:

private void CopyPartsToProject()
 
 string sourcePath = (pathToQuotes + "/" + client_name.Text + "/" + quote_id.Text);
 string targetPath = (pathToClient + "/" + client_name.Text + "/" + project_number.Text);

 string sourceFile = sourcePath + "/" + "*.*";
 string destinationFile = targetPath + "/" + "*.*";

 System.IO.File.Move(sourceFile, destinationFile);

 System.IO.Directory.Move(sourcePath, targetPath);

 

pathToQuotes and pathToClient are retreived from a MySQL database (from user input) in another method. The info is getting retreived without any problems and the paths are correct. If you could give me a hand it would be appreciated. Thanks.

You need a recursive method to achieve moving directories including all files and sub-directories:

private void moveDirectory(string sourcePath ,string targetPath)

 if (!System.IO.Directory.Exists(targetPath))
 
 System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(targetPath);
 
 String files = Directory.GetFiles(sourcePath);
 String directories = Directory.GetDirectories(sourcePath);
 foreach (string f in files)
 
 System.IO.File.Copy(f, Path.Combine(targetPath,Path.GetFileName(f)), true); 
 
 foreach(string d in directories)
 
 // recursive call
 moveDirectory(Path.Combine(sourcePath, Path.GetFileName(d)), Path.Combine(targetPath, Path.GetFileName(d)));
 

then the usage is like this:

private void CopyPartsToProject()

 string sourcePath = (pathToQuotes + "/" + client_name.Text + "/" + quote_id.Text);
 string targetPath = (pathToClient + "/" + client_name.Text + "/" + project_number.Text);

 moveDirectory(sourcePath, targetPath);