File not found Exception.. But it's there

Question

Hey this is going to be one of those dumb questions. I am trying to pick up a file on my local system and I keep getting a FileNotFoundException thrown.

Som

Answer 1

Try doing Directory.GetFiles(@"C:\logs"). It's possible that the file in question has odd characters that are getting interpreted one way by Windows Explorer (presumably where you're reading "the file's property" from?) but a different way by the .NET Framework. This can happen if you have UTF-8 characters in the filename (perhaps an en dash?).