If files are posted to my webapp, then I read them via MultipartFormDataStreamProvider.FileData
.
I Initialize the provider like this:
string root = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/App_Data");
var provider = new MultipartFormDataStreamProvider(root);
And the provider nicely stores them as "~App_Data/BodyPart_{someguid}"
But how do I clean up those files after I'm done with them?
I know this question is old, but the best way I found to delete the temporary file was after processing it.
string root = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/App_Data");
var provider = new MultipartFormDataStreamProvider(root);
foreach (var file in provider.Files)
{
// process file upload...
// delete temporary file
System.IO.File.Delete(file.LocalFileName);
}
You could delete all files that are older than a certain timespan. e.g.
private void CleanTempFiles(string dir, int ageInMinutes)
{
string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(dir);
foreach (string file in files)
{
var time = File.GetCreationTime(file);
if (time.AddMinutes(ageInMinutes) < DateTime.Now)
{
File.Delete(file);
}
}
}
Then call it with something like:
CleanTempFiles(root, 60); // Delete all files older than 1 hour