Delete a large number (>100K) of files with c# whilst maintaining performance in a web application?

Question

I am trying to remove a large number of files from a location (by large I mean over 100000), whereby the action is initated from a web page. Obviously I cou

Answer 1

Can you put all your files in the same directory?

If so, why don't you just call Directory.Delete(string,bool) on the subdir you want to delete?

If you've already got a list of file paths you want to get rid of, you might actually get better results by moving them to a temp dir then deleting them rather than deleting each file manually.

Cheers, Florian