Retrieving files from directory that contains large amount of files
I have directory that contains nearly 14,000,000 audio samples in *.wav format. All plain storage, no subdirectories. I want to loop through the files, but when I use DirectoryInfo.GetFiles() on that folder the whole application freezes for minutes! Can this be done another way? Perhaps read 1000, process them, then take next 1000 and so on? Haris Hasan Have you tried EnumerateFiles method of DirectoryInfo class? As MSDN Says The EnumerateFiles and GetFiles methods differ as follows: When you use EnumerateFiles , you can start enumerating the collection of FileInfo objects before the whole