We're writing a text editor like tool for our internal accounting package system that has actions that can be done by our own Xml language specs. These macro commands are specified in Xml files and we need the ability to monitor if files openned have bean modified externally. The only problem is that there maybe 20-30 files with differe...
I am using FileSystemWatcher to monitor a folder, and it seems to be preventing the folder's parent from being deleted. For example, I have the file structure: C:\Root\FolderToWatch\... with the FileSystemWatcher targeting FolderToWatch. While my program is running, if I go to Windows Explorer and try to delete Root, I get an error ...
I'm trying to monitor a folder using C# and FileSystemWatcher. everything works well, except the fact that i can delete the folder i'm actually watching I used to do this in C using ReadDirectoryChangesW, by creating a handle to the folder, and locking it, which prevented delete or rename from the user to that folder (i'm talking about ...
I am wondering whether watching a file/directory for changes using the FileSystemWatcher class is extremely memory intensive. I am developing a desktop application in C# that will be running behind the scenes continuously on low-performance computers, and I need some way of checking to see if various files have changed. I can think of a ...
Im looking for a tool that will watch directory(with sub-dirs) and give me the list of files that has changed and what has changed in them. Ive found some tools that show me files that has changed, but that is not enough for me. P.S. I dont want to write it if someone has already written it. P.S.2. Feel free to close this question if y...
I have a small vb.net application utilising the FileSystemWatcher hooked up to a UNC path, after an undetermined period of time (< day) events from the watcher are not raised. Im capturing the file created event and passing the path to a processfile code block: Private Sub fsWatch1_Created(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e AsSystem.IO.Fi...
How can I get the window directories being accessed by user in C# on Windows 7? I do have a list of recent directories here but it is not realtime. Also when I start my system the list is empty. RegistryKey reg = Registry.CurrentUser; reg.GetValue(@"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TypedPaths") Following location ha...
FileSystemWatcher provide us different kind of events from changed to deleted. I was wondering why I'm getting deleted event whenever I used visual studio 2005 to edit a file and changed event if I'm using notepad or notepad++ and other editor? ...
I have two C# applications, one is reading a file (File A) line by line and writing its contents to a different file (File B). The second application is using FileSystemWatcher for File B to see when it is updated and reporting the difference is line numbers between when the program was started and when the file was changed. Thats all ...
I am using JDK 7's WatchService to monitor directories. The ENTRY_DELETE event tells me an entry has been deleted. I can get the name of that entry doing something similar to: WatchEvent<Path> ev = cast(event); Path name = ev.context(); Path child = dir.resolve(name); I want to know if the deleted entry was a file or folder. Naturall...
I am writing a tool that monitors a network directory and is running off of a Windows Server 2008 machine, the OnChanged event for the FileSystemWatcher is being fired correctly from files placed on the network drive by any computer that is not using Windows 7, for some reason if the amount of files copied is more than 19 on a windows 7 ...
Is there a way to determine with the FSW if a file or a directory has been deleted? ...
I added FileSystemWatcher in Form1_Load like this - Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load .................... Dim watcher As New FileSystemWatcher() 'For watching current directory watcher.Path = "/" 'For watching status.txt for an...
On Linux, I need to know which files were added/modified/moved/deleted after compiling and installing an application from source code, ie. the command-line, Linux equivalent to the venerale InCtrl5. Is there a utility that does this, or a set of commands that I could run and would show me the changes? Thank you. Edit: The following...
Consider this code: string dir = Environment.CurrentDirectory + @"\a"; Directory.CreateDirectory(dir); FileSystemWatcher watcher = new FileSystemWatcher(dir); watcher.IncludeSubdirectories = false; watcher.EnableRaisingEvents = true; Console.WriteLine("Deleting " + dir); Directory.Delete(dir, true); if (Directory.Exists(dir)) { Cons...
Hey guys / gals, I have come across several "solutions" here and across the web but none seem to fit the bill. What I am looking to do is have an app monitor a folder for new files (either by creation, a move, or a copy) and perform actions on those objects. That being the scenario, I turned to the FileSystemWatcher class to perform t...
I'm monitoring a folder using a FileSystemWatcher like this: watcher = new FileSystemWatcher(folder); watcher.NotifyFilter = NotifyFilters.Size; watcher.Changed += changedCallback; When I open a new file in notepad in that folder and save it, I get a notification. If I keep writing and then I save, I get a notification. If I close the...
I get the following exception when I open a file for unzipping it's contents. It happens when I have the file selected in Windows Explorer, or mouse over it showing a tooltip. System.IO.IOException was unhandled Message=The process cannot access the file 'D:\Documents\AutoUnZip\Zips\MVCContrib.Extras.release.zip' because it is being u...
I'm using FileSystemWatcher to check when a file is modified or deleted, but I'm wondering if there is any way to check when a file is read by another application. Example: I have the file C:\test.txt on my harddrive and am watching it using FileSystemWatcher. Another program (not under my control) goes to read that file; I would like t...
How to access internet location with domain username/password from windows service running in local system account if system is not in domain. I hava a windows service running in local system account and there is a filesystem watcher which is watching a internet location which is accessible using domain username/password. Now i want th...