Question

I’ve read several different questions from SO about this already but still haven’t been able to get it to work. I’m using public static string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(CurrentDirectory, "*.wav", SearchOption.AllDirectories); to get an array of file paths that will then be passed of to a filestream. The operations the filestream does were taking too long with just one thread handling all of the files. So I decided I’d split the array and pass those smaller arrays to different threads.

The code I was using for that I got from another SO question, and used it to pass the split array, but it only worked with just one file in the first array, but I know what the problem was:

var thing = from index in Enumerable.Range(0, files.Length) 
          group files[index] by index/600;
foreach(var set in thing)
    string.Join(";", set.ToArray());

(This isn’t exactly how I used it, I’ve messed with it so much I can’t remember.) The problem with this is that everything was treated as just one massive file path, I have a foreach loop that gets each file from the smaller array, but it treated every file in it as just one, throwing the filepathtoolong exception when there was more than one file returned from the search. My function takes an array and then uses foreach (string file in smallerArray) to write to each one. What I need to do is break up the files array into 4 smaller arrays and start the new threads like new Thread(() => { DoWork(newArray); }).Start(); but nothing I’ve tried has worked.

Answer 1

So I decided I’d split the array and pass those smaller arrays to different threads.

Sounds like you’re doing it the hard way 🙂 Let the framework handle it for you with Parallel.ForEach:

Parallel.ForEach(files, file => 
{
    // Do stuff with one file
});