System.IO.IOException help

Question

I have this code

using Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO;  
  
DirectoryInfo d = new DirectoryInfo(@"C:\Users\egome\OneDrive - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid\Desktop\speckyboy-free-avatar-icon-set\SVG\1 de 3 Avatars FLAT");  
FileInfo[] infos = d.GetFiles();  
foreach (FileInfo f in infos) {  
    FileSystem.RenameFile(f.FullName, f.Name.Remove(0, 3));  
}  

I got this error

System.IO.IOException: 'Could not complete operation since a file already exists in this path 'C:\Users\egome\OneDrive - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid\Desktop\speckyboy-free-avatar-icon-set\SVG\1 de 3 Avatars FLAT\mexican.svg'.'

this is happening because I have duplicates names

But the this is I just want to remove the XX-
I do not care if is duplicated, I want the duplicated

Answer 1

Seems like a duplicate post of this.

The issue is when you strip off the XX- from some files you are left with a file name that already exists. How exactly do you want to deal with the dups? You cannot have 2 files in the same folder with the same name. It isn't allowed. Perhaps you want to add a (1) to the filename.

   var files = Directory.GetFiles(@"C:\Users\egome\OneDrive - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid\Desktop\speckyboy-free-avatar-icon-set\SVG\1 de 3 Avatars FLAT"))  
   foreach (var file in files)  
   {  
      //Assuming all files begin with XX- here...  
      var adjustedName = Path.GetFileName(file).Remove(0, 3);  
     
      //Ensure unique  
      var index = 1;  
      var newName = adjustedName;  
      while (File.Exists(newName))  
      {  
          newName = adjustedName + $" ({index}++)";  
      };  
     
      File.Move(file, Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(file), newName), true);  
   }