I need my program to count the number of files on a disk drive.
What is the fastest way to do so?
Directory.GetFiles() is not an alternative, as it is very slow.
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I need my program to count the number of files on a disk drive.
What is the fastest way to do so?
Directory.GetFiles() is not an alternative, as it is very slow.
Did you try import
kernel32.dlland use it?There is a good implementation example someone posted before here : https://stackoverflow.com/a/724184/912851. It might be worthwhile looking at.
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The fastest one I saw in my life is this application. It uses ntfs journals. and within seconds it lists millions of files on my harddisk.
I think they have a sdk and sources on C++ or c. Maybe you can create a managed dll and use on c#?