Deleting Internet Explorer Temporary Files in C#

Can anyone tell me why this wont work? I got the right folder path but it will not remove the files in that folder.

Code:

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DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.InternetCache));
foreach (FileInfo fl in di.GetFiles())
{
fl.Delete();
}

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Originally Posted by 2MuchRiceMakesMeSick

Can anyone tell me why this wont work? I got the right folder path but it will not remove the files in that folder.

Code:

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DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.InternetCache));
foreach (FileInfo fl in di.GetFiles())
{
fl.Delete();
}

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By doesn't work, what do you mean, just not deleting or throwing exceptions?

Bill

it doesnt delete anything. no errors no exceptions

That folder requires some additional coding. Since index.dat amongst other files will not let you delete them, you have to take into account the access violations. There may be a quicker, cleaner method, but you can do this with recursive searching:

Code:

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        private void safeRecursiveDeleter(string path)
        {
            foreach (string FileName in Directory.GetFiles(path))
            {
                try
                {
                    File.Delete(FileName);
                }
                catch { Exception ex; }//Certain files WILL give you access violations (index.dat)
            }
            foreach (string DirectoryName in Directory.GetDirectories(path))
            {
                safeRecursiveDeleter (DirectoryName);
                try
                {
                    Directory.Delete(DirectoryName, true); //Will kill the recursive search if there is no undeletable files
                }
                catch {Exception ex;}
            }
           
    }
//Called via:

                    safeRecursiveDeleter(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.InternetCache));

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Bill

I don't have enough expertise in C# to play with InterOp and APIs yet. :(

I guess you can use the DeleteUrlCacheEntry API to do this. Here is a VB6 example. May be it woun't be hard to convert it in C#

Edit:

found a related page in MS Support pages. It may help ? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326201/EN-US/