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

C:\logs\hw-healthways-prod_2009-08-26.tar should be C:\\logs\\hw-healthways-prod_2009-08-26.tar. \ means the next character is an escape character.

Answer 2

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?).

Answer 3

You may want to check your file permissions. Your computer may not have permission to the file.

Answer 4

May be the name of the file is "hw-healthways-prod_2009-08-26.tar.tar" instead of "hw-healthways-prod_2009-08-26.tar", I had this problem because by default the extension files are hidden on windows