System.IO.File.Delete invalid characters

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I'm trying to delete all files in a directory by doing this:

System.IO.File.Delete(directoriodestino_imagenes + @"\*.*");

Where, directoriodestino_imagenes = "C:\\dcm\\patients\\NAME_LASTNAME\\DCM\\".

And I get this:

{"Illegal characters in path."}

Any hints what I may be doing wrong?

Quoting from the ONLINE REFERENCE: `path: The name of the file to be deleted. Wildcard characters are not supported.` — 500 - Internal Server Error, Aug 29 '14 at 00:05

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:25

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It's the wildcard character. You cannot delete multiple files using Delete method. You either need to delete the whole folder (look at the Delete folder method at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fxeahc5f(v=vs.110).aspx) or just remove them one by one. E.g. like in Deleting multiple files with wildcard

edited May 23 '17 at 10:25

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answered Aug 29 '14 at 00:05

Petr Podhorsky

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 29 '14 at 01:01

Actually it is possible to delete Files in a folder. Here is how I do it.

 string directory = @"C:\File Downloader\DownloadedFile\";
 string[] file = Directory.GetFiles(directory); // get all files in the folder.
 foreach (string fileName in file )
 File.Delete(fileName );

System.IO.File.Delete invalid characters

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