How To use sessions, files and directories

This topic describes how to use file server sessions, files and directories effectively.

• How to use file server sessions
  This topic describes how to use file server sessions.
• How to share file handles between processes
  This section describes the sharing of file handles between two processes, and the APIs provided for this purpose. This feature is only supported on Symbian platform versions with EKA2 architecture.
• How to use sessions efficiently
  This topic describes how to use file server session effectively.
• How to list directories and files
  This topic describe show to list directories and files together and separately.
• How to create directories
  This topic describes how to create directories.
• How to delete files and directories
  This topic describes how to delete an empty directory and a file.
• Automatic file deletion on closure
  This topic describes how a temporary file can be destroyed automatically when the owning thread closes it or if the owning thread crashes.
• How to create and open a file
  This topic describes the interface used to create, open, read from and write to a single file.
• How to get and change file details
  This topic describes how to get and change file details.
• How to move a file
  This topic describes how to move a single file to a different directory without renaming it.
• How to read and write a file
  This topic describes how to reading transfer data from a file to a descriptor, and writing transfers data from a descriptor to a file.
• How to track changes
  This topic describes hoe to track changes made to file and free disk space.
• How to retrieve drive and volume information
  This topic describes how to retrieve drive and volume information.
• How to rename files
  This topic describes how to rename files.
• How to finalize a drive
  This topic describes how to finalize a drive.
• Using RFormat
  This topic describes how to format a device.
• Using TFileText
  This topic describes how to read the data.