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andybruner
Joined:: 2019-02-07
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help with excluding subfolder in C#

2020-12-10 21:47

Sorry to bother you but I'm having a terrible time trying to exclude a subfolder.

my directory structure looks like this. /parcs/download/PNB/Processed
I have an xml file in /parcs/download/PNB that I am moving to a local server. That works fine. However, my code is also finding the /Processed folder and transferring those files as well. How do I make it so that it only gets the files in /parcs/download/PNB and excludes /Processed?

TransferOptions transferOptions = new TransferOptions();
transferOptions.TransferMode = TransferMode.Binary;
transferOptions.FileMask = "*/"; 
 
TransferOperationResult transferResult;
transferResult =
  session.GetFilesToDirectory("/parcs/download/PNB/", mApplicationDataPath,"*/",false, transferOptions);

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martin◆ Site Admin
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Re: help with excluding subfolder in C#

2020-12-11

TransferOptions transferOptions = new TransferOptions();
transferOptions.FileMask = "|*/"; 
 
TransferOperationResult transferResult;
transferResult = session.GetFilesToDirectory(
  "/parcs/download/PNB/", mApplicationDataPath, options: transferOptions);

See https://winscp.net/eng/docs/faq_script_non_recursive

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Re: help with excluding subfolder in C#

2020-12-11 15:44

This does not work. GetFilesToDirectory requires another argument for filemask within it that you did not show. If I include it I get an error.

session.GetFilesToDirectory(
    "/parcs/download/PNB/", mApplicationDataPath, "|*/", false,
    transferOptions);

I tried just using

transferResult = session.GetFiles(
  "/parcs/download/PNB/", mApplicationDataPath, options: transferOptions);

but this did not work either.

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andybruner
Joined:: 2019-02-07
Posts:: 7

2020-12-14 16:21

Hi Martin,
Just want to make sure this is still on your radar. I still would really appreciate your help on this one. Can you just layout in very straightforward code what I need to do to use GetFilesToDirectory to exclude subfolders? As I mentioned earlier, GetFilesToDirectly asks for a filemask as a parameter but it also include transferoptions. It is not like PutFiles where PutFiles does not include filemask as a parameter. I have tried different combinations and nothing works.

session.GetFilesToDirectory(
    "/parcs/download/PNB/", mApplicationDataPath,"|*/", false,
    transferOptions);

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andybruner
Joined:: 2019-02-07
Posts:: 7

2020-12-14 17:26

I finally succeeded.

session.GetFilesToDirectory(
    "/parcs/download/PNB/", mApplicationDataPath, null,
    options: transferOptions);

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martin◆ Site Admin

2020-12-15

I believe that's the very same code I've suggested in my previous post. The third argument of the Session.GetFilesToDirectory is optional and defaults to null:
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/library_session_getfilestodirectory#syntax
You just explicitly pass the default null value.

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