[Help] Delete last file ordered by name

[alinghi100]

Hi all,

I need to create a process that will list all file names inside a folder and then delete only the last file in this list (ordered by descending name).
I found a snippet online and I think it can be useful.
How can I change the fact that this snippet use the creation time instead of the name sorted by descending?

Thank you in advantage

[Palaniyappan (Forum Leader)]

Hi
kindly have a view on this once buddy, on how to get the last created file in the folder while fetching the files with get files method itself

Trigger when a new pdf file is placed and only read the newly pasted pdf file not the remaing files

Buddy @vekatesh_chowdary while getting filename in your xaml pass the value like this and change the type from string to string like this filename = system.IO.Directory.GetFiles(“C:\Users\JaYaKriShNa\Desktop\PDF”).OrderByDescending(Function(d) new fileinfo(d).CreationTime).First And so there would be no need to iterate through the filename array as it is no more a array, because it has got the latest file string with it. So you can directly pass the filename variable to read pdf activity Ho…

Cheers @alinghi100

[Pablito (Pawel Wozniak)]

Hi @alinghi100,
You could use PowerShell script for this:

$path = "(path to folder)"
ls $path | sort-object -Property {$_.Name} | Select-Object -Last "1" | Remove-Item -force

[Vijay_Tulsalkar (Vijay Kumar C Tulsalkar)]

@alinghi100

Directory.GetFiles(PathOfYourFolder).OrderByDescending(function(x) Path.GetFileName(x)).last

can use this in Delete activity

[alinghi100]

Thank you guys,

it worked like a charm

[Palaniyappan (Forum Leader)]

Great
Cheers @alinghi100