Search for a directory by its name only

[garfild Baram]

Hi,
Till now I was using the following to find the existance of "myDirectory" directory:

File currentDir = new File("c:" + File.separator + myDirecory");
boolean dirExist = currentDir.isDirectory();

I would like to search myDirectoryon in my whole computer with just specifying its name (without a path).
Can I do that?

Thanks

Yossi

[Joe Ess]

Yes. File has methods to determine the root drives. File also has methods to list out the contents of a particular file and whether the child is a file or a directory. If it is a directory, search it. If it is a file, compare its name to the one you want.

[garfild Baram]

yes, you are right, we have the File[] ff = File.listRoots();
The question here is how to iterate all root folders for a search of my specific folder?
What is the function that lists the content of folders in each root?
thanks man
Yossi

[Joe Ess]

There's several. Have a look at the API documentation and look for the various list methods.

[garfild Baram]

thanks Joe, I have found the solution for that :-)