How to move files older than today's date to other folder

[postwick (Paul Ostwick)]

This is how to get a list of the files you want…

Using DirectoryInfo.GetFiles instead of Directory.GetFiles, advanced filtering

Most times it’s recommended to use Directory.GetFiles to get the files in a folder. I’ve found DirectoryInfo.GetFiles to be more useful. It gets the files as an IEnumerable of FileInfo, which makes filtering easier and gives you more info about the files. You can later For Each through it and get any of the attributes of the file you want: filename (currentItem.Name); extension (currentItem.Extension), full path and filename (currentItem.FullName) etc. Here is the full definition of FileInfo …

New System.IO.DirectoryInfo("C:\temp").GetFiles("*").Where(Function(s) (CDate(s.CreatedDate) < Today))

Just put that into a For Each: