Name
Directory.Move Method
Class
System.IO.Directory
Syntax
Directory.Move(sourcedirname, destdirname
)
-
sourcedirname
Use: Required
Type: String
The name of the directory to be moved
-
destdirname
Use: Required
Data Type: String
The location to which the source drive and its contents are to be moved
Return Value
None
Description
Moves a directory and all its contents, including nested subdirectories and their files, to a new location
Rules at a Glance
sourcedirname
can be either an absolute path (a fully qualified path from the root directory to the directory to be moved) or a relative path (starting from the current directory to the directory to be moved).sourcedirname
anddestdirname
can be either a path on the local system, the path of a mapped network drive, or a UNC path.Neither
sourcedirname
nordestdirname
can contain wildcard characters.destdirname
must be either a fully qualified path or a relative path.destdirname
can also be an absolute path or a relative path, except that it must include the name to be assigned to the moved directory. This allows you to rename the directory at the same time as you move it.If the directory indicated by
destdirname
already exists, an error occurs.
Example
Suppose that the C drive contains the following folders:
c:\docs\letters c:\Documents and Settings
Moving the letters
folder to make it a
subdirectory of c:\Documents and Settings
is
done by the following code:
Directory.Move("c:\docs\letters", _ "c:\Documents and Settings\letters")
Thus, the ...
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