Improve the performance for enumerating files and folders using .NET

Question

I have a base directory that contains several thousand folders. Inside of these folders there can be between 1 and 20 subfolders that contains between 1 and 10 files. I\'d

Answer 1

The method Get1 in above answer (#itsnotalie & #Chibueze Opata) is missing to count the files in the root directory, so it should read:

private static int Get1(string myBaseDirectory)
{
    DirectoryInfo dirInfo = new DirectoryInfo(myBaseDirectory);
    return dirInfo.EnumerateDirectories()
               .AsParallel()
               .SelectMany(di => di.EnumerateFiles("*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories))
               .Count() + dirInfo.EnumerateFiles("*.*", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly).Count();
}