Looking for assistance in searching for existing file folders

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I am building a bot that must create a file folder for an individual that does not currently have a folder created. For each instance, the individual “identifier” will be a variable.

For example:
candidateName = “Smith001”

I must search through a directory to see if folder “Smith001” already exists.

Folder Path to search: C:\xxxx\xxxxxxx\xxxxxxxx\Candidate Files\N to Z\Smith001

I tried using the “Path Exists” options; however, it’s not allowing to use wildcards in the path name. I need to use the wildcards to allow for a different subfolder to be searched. (ie. A to M instead of N to Z)

I tried the following and it worked…

Folder Path to search: "C:\xxxx\xxxxxxx\xxxxxxxx\Candidate Files\N to Z"+candidateName

But in an attempt to create a wildcard for the \N to Z, I tried the following and it did not work…

Folder Path to search: “C:\xxxx\xxxxxxx\xxxxxxxx\Candidate Files\N to Z"+”*"+candidateName

How do I search for a file folder (…or a folder containing the candidateName variable) in a directory?

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@ecullison

Welcome to forums

If i understand you correctly you have a folder with other subfolders

Now you want a folder to create before that you need to check the sub folders is contains already the folder or not

Is it this you want to do?

Thanks

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Please try this…SearchOption.AllDirectories will search all the subfolder under “CandidateFiles”

 Directory.getfiles("C:\xxxx\xxxxxxx\xxxxxxxx\Candidate Files\","Smith001",SearchOption.AllDirectories)
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Ugh…I’m not exactly sure what you mean. Would I put this in the path location in the search folder command?

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Yes…I’ll explain a bit more.

An incoming email contains a candidate’s name identifier along with a specific job they are applying. Every time an email comes in, we must create a folder using the candidate’s name identifier as the name of the folder. We then populate the folder with other job-related documents. If the given candidate already applied for a job in the past, they would already have a folder in the directory (named by their name identifier) and we would not need a new folder. In that case, we could store all the job-related documents in the folder already created.

So…if the current variable is the name identifier. I need to search the directory for this folder…if it exists, move to next step. If not, create this folder.

Hope this helps.

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SearchOption.AllDirectories will browse through all the folder inside MoveFiles…in the below example…

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I have three folders under MoveFiles and one of the folder has Smith001

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So my above code Returned 1, you can use that code in the if condition as shown below…

Directory.GetDirectories("YourFolderPath","Smith001",SearchOption.AllDirectories).Count >= 1

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Let me know , if this is what you are looking for??