Could not find a part of the path

c# fileinfo
Abhash786 picture Abhash786 · Sep 2, 2013 · Viewed 8.8k times · Source

I am getting " Could not find a part of the path" error while copying a file from server to local machine. here is my code sample:

 try
            {
                string serverfile = @"E:\installer.msi";
                string localFile = Path.GetTempPath();
                FileInfo fileInfo = new FileInfo(serverfile);
                fileInfo.CopyTo(localFile);
                return true;
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                return false;

            }

Can anyone tell me what's wrong with my code.

Answer

Ehsan picture Ehsan · Sep 2, 2013 
Path.GetTempPath

is returning you folder path. you need to specify file path as well. You can do it like this

string tempPath = Path.GetTempPath();
string serverfile = @"E:\installer.msi";
string path = Path.Combine(tempPath, Path.GetFileName(serverfile));
File.Copy(serverfile, path); //you can use the overload to specify do you want to overwrite or not

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