When I first wrote the original version of the Mask Email Image Generator (Email Obfuscator), I didn’t bother to add any code to periodically remove the images from the server. Yesterday I discovered it had almost 50,000 images in that folder. Not to repeat the same mistake, I wrote a function to delete image files that are older than 3 minutes. Sample code follows.
protected void CleanImageFolder() { string imgFolder = Server.MapPath("~/lab/maskemail/img/"); string[] imgList = Directory.GetFiles(imgFolder, "*.jpg"); foreach (string img in imgList) { FileInfo imgInfo = new FileInfo(img); if (imgInfo.LastWriteTime < DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(-3)) { imgInfo.Delete(); } } }
