Don't show hidden files in a directory listview [closed]

Answer 1

Something like this should work

var folders = Directory.GetDirectories(@"C:\")
.Where(d => !new DirectoryInfo(d).Attributes.HasFlag(FileAttributes.System | FileAttributes.Hidden));

foreach (string dir in folders)
{
   .....

Let me expand on the answer as some people may find it difficult to understand, This will ignore SystemHidden directrories.

ie:

"C:\\$Recycle.Bin"

"C:\\Documents and Settings"

"C:\\System Volume Information"

If you want to ignore all hidden directories you can simply omit the FileAttributes.System attribute from the linq statement but this would result in losing directories like ProgramData in your ListView which I'm not sure you want.

Answer 2

Run an iterate over the listview items and remove items which they extension is .bin.

you can find .bin with this piece of code (pseudonymous):

for(int i=0;i<items_count;i++)
{
  if(listview1.items[i].Substring(listview1.items[i].length-3,listview1.items[i].length)=="bin")
   listview1.items.remove(i);
}

another pseudonymous : if you want to generalize this , you should use file attribute class like this for a list view item :

string filePath = listview1.items[i];

// get file attributes
System.IO.FileAttributes fileAttributes = System.IO.File.GetAttributes(filePath);

Now you should check if fileAttributes is hidden , remove the correspond item.

Note : Next Time , Please send some of your code lines , it is better for problem salvation.

Answer 3

var dirs = Directory.GetDirectories(@"C:\")
             .Select(d => new { Attr = new DirectoryInfo(d).Attributes, Dir = d })
             .Where(x => !x.Attr.HasFlag(FileAttributes.System))
             .Where(x => !x.Attr.HasFlag(FileAttributes.Hidden))
             .Select(x => x.Dir)
             .ToList();

This will not only ignore System+Hidden directories like C:\$Recycle.Bin but also C:\$AVG8.VAULT$ which is not a System directory and used by virus scanner.