DirectoryInfo.MoveTo Method (String)

DirectoryInfoMoveTo Method (String)

Moves a DirectoryInfo instance and its contents to a new path.

Namespace: Alphaleonis.Win32.Filesystem
Assembly: AlphaFS (in AlphaFS.dll) Version: 2.0

Syntax

public void MoveTo(
	string destinationPath
)

Public Sub MoveTo ( 
	destinationPath As String
)

public:
void MoveTo(
	String^ destinationPath
)

member MoveTo : 
        destinationPath : string -> unit

destinationPath

Type: SystemString

The name and path to which to move this directory.

The destination cannot be another disk volume or a directory with the identical name.

It can be an existing directory to which you want to add this directory as a subdirectory.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
ArgumentException	Passed when the path parameter contains invalid characters, is empty, or contains only white spaces.
ArgumentNullException	Passed when path is .
DirectoryNotFoundException	Passed when the directory was not found.
IOException	Passed when an I/O error occurs.
NotSupportedException
UnauthorizedAccessException

Remarks

Use this method to prevent overwriting of an existing directory by default.

This method does not work across disk volumes.

Whenever possible, avoid using short file names (such as XXXXXX~1.XXX) with this method.

If two directories have equivalent short file names then this method may fail and raise an exception and/or result in undesirable behavior.