Question

The following was given by my instructor and on my friends Win 7 it works just fine. I have tried my work laptop and my personal desktop…keeps finding the following error

I dont get it…I went as far as changing permissions to the directory to everyone just for kicks…it works on his copy paste but not mine.

“Could not find a part of the path ‘c:\Users\Wookie\My Documents\’.”

using System;
using System.IO;

class Program
{
 static void Main()
 {

 // This line of code gets the path to the My Documents Folder
 string environment = System.Environment.GetFolderPath
 (System.Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal) + "\\";

 Console.WriteLine("Enter a file name in My Documents: ");
 string input = Console.ReadLine();

 // concatenate the path to the file name
 string path = environment + input;

 // now we can use the full path to get the document
 StreamReader myFile = new StreamReader(path);
 int n = int.Parse(myFile.ReadLine());
 Console.WriteLine("read {0}", n);

 Console.ReadLine();
 }//End Main()
}//End class Program

Answer 1

Try whether the file actually exists from your program’s point of view. Of course, replace yourfile.txt with the filename of the file you are looking for.

string path = Path.Combine(System.Environment.GetFolderPath
    (System.Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal), "yourfile.txt");
Console.WriteLine(File.Exists(path));

If it doesn’t, try the same in your file system explorer. Otherwise, are you sure you’ve entered the file name correctly? Try hard-coding it temporarily. The above code also shows how you should combine paths (note the lack of a slash (\) as it is inserted automatically) and how to check whether a file (or directory, using Directory.Exists()) exists. This may be of use in finding where the problem is.