Saving multiples files to a directory in a way that names them differently

[ppr (Peter Preuss)]

@drewyorker
Have a look here

Duplicate Validation

@balaji.nama Another technique is to fill up maintain the filenames and uplicates within a dictionary (of String, string) While downloading check if the filename is available as key in the dictionary e.g. dictNames If Not avaialable: insert the filename as Key and Value: e.g. dictNames(“Abc.txt”) = Abc.txt If Available: retrieve the value val = dictNames(“Abc.txt”) do the modification on the filename e.g. Abc_2.txt store the new filename back dictNames(“Abc.txt”) = Abc_2.txt Sure you can …

Another technique is to retrieve the files with Directory.GetrFiles(“C:\FolderPath\ABC*.ext”)
and counting the results for using it in the new filename

and more direct with Directory.GetrFiles(“C:\FolderPath\ABC*.ext”).Length

Therefore the methods below are helping much:

Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension Method (System.IO)

Path.GetExtension Method (System.IO)