filesystemwatcher Questions

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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 ...
Ladykiller asked 9/8, 2010 at 0:11

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I have made a tiny application that responds to changes to files in a folder. But when I edit the file in Visual Studio 2008, it never detects anything. If I edit the file in Notepad instead, every...
Sarraceniaceous asked 25/3, 2009 at 8:37

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My program inside a docker container uses FileSystemWatcher to monitor a local folder. I mounted the directory with: docker run -v /c/Users/Support/Desktop/inbox:/Users/Support/Desktop/inbox -v ...
Hip asked 13/11, 2017 at 22:5

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I am writing a c# program to let me know when a file has been added or deleted. I run it on my Windows 7 machine and watch an FTP server on our network. It works fine but will suddenly stop catch...
Adventurous asked 31/5, 2011 at 7:9

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How can I monitor a whole directory tree for changes in Linux (ext3 file system)? Currently the directory contains about half a million files in about 3,000 subdirectories, organized in three dire...
Villanovan asked 2/1, 2012 at 9:37

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I am trying to get a notification when a file is updated on disk. I am interested in getting this notifications as soon as a flush occurs, yet, it seems that the FileSystemWatcher would only send a...
Calendar asked 5/3, 2012 at 7:26

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I have an application where I am looking for a text file and if there are any changes made to the file I am using the OnChanged eventhandler to handle the event. I am using the NotifyFilters.LastWr...
Lundt asked 19/11, 2009 at 16:55

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For some reason, my FileSystemWatcher is not firing any events whatsoever. I want to know any time a new file is created, deleted or renamed in my directory. _myFolderPath is being set correctly, I...
Disgrace asked 29/4, 2013 at 12:35

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I'm using a FileSystemWatcher on my C# application (running on Windows) in order to update in my app the files that I'm currently browsing. It's work well when I browse a local directory. I am noti...
Oil asked 3/7, 2012 at 7:25

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I need a .Net's FileSystemWatcher analog in raw C++/WinAPI. I almost started to code one myself using FindFirstChangeNotification/FindNextChangeNotification, but then it occurred to me that I am pr...
Dunn asked 21/1, 2010 at 6:13

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When I try to debug a Python file with PyCharm Community Edition, the IDE opens a new tab (highlighted in yellow) despite me having that file open already in a pre-existing tab. Sometimes, that d...
Shirtmaker asked 13/4, 2014 at 11:15

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When a file is being copied to the file watcher folder, how can I identify whether the file is completely copied and ready to use? Because I am getting multiple events during file copy. (The file i...
Lunchroom asked 4/9, 2012 at 16:55

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I have this complicated code-base that is listening for FileCreated events on a certain folder. When the file is Created (which also includes moving a file to that folder), I want to read in that f...
Morril asked 12/2, 2014 at 20:48

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I am new to PowerShell and I am trying to use the System.IO.FileSystemWatcher to monitor the presence of a file in a specified folder. However, as soon as the file is detected I want to stop monito...
Counterintelligence asked 3/8, 2015 at 20:11

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I'm trying to watch for changes in a specified directory using the FileSystemWatcher class. Based heavily off of the example on the MS docs which works fine on my windows machine. The problem thoug...
Posterity asked 22/4, 2021 at 13:59

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I'm trying to use watchdog to run a sync script whenever anything changes in a dir (except for one specific file). I simply copied the code from the readme (pasted below), which does what it says; ...

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I realise that FileSystemWatcher does not provide a Move event, instead it will generate a separate Delete and Create events for the same file. (The FilesystemWatcher is watching both the source an...
Premise asked 17/8, 2009 at 4:10

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Everywhere I find these two lines of code used to set filter for file system watcher in samples provided.. FileSystemWatcher watcher = new FileSystemWatcher(); watcher.Filter = "*.txt"; //or watch...
Irrefragable asked 6/8, 2011 at 6:22

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I am using a FileSystemWatcher in my code to track any change/rename/addition of file under the monitored directory. Now I need a notification if the monitored directory itself gets deleted. Any s...
Peterus asked 9/1, 2020 at 14:31

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Given the program: using System; using System.IO; namespace fsw_bug_poc { class Program { private static FileSystemWatcher _fileSystemWatcher; static void Main(string[] args) { _fileSystem...
Erstwhile asked 14/7, 2019 at 4:37

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I have browsed around but cannot find any information on what I am seeking, if there is another post that already goes over this then I apologize. I am seeking help with code that will monitor a s...
Prompter asked 8/2, 2013 at 19:6

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I want to monitor the following New File being created/copied to the directory Existing file edited I use the following code to subscribe to the created and changed event of the FileSyst...
Jujube asked 6/3, 2019 at 3:37

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I am very new to powershell. The following code is created by BigTeddy and he gets the full credit (I also made some Changes using the While Loop) I want to know how can I create an if/else statem...
Spartan asked 8/2, 2019 at 0:58

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I have the following sub: Private Sub Watcher_Changed(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As FileSystemEventArgs) If Path.GetExtension(e.Name) = ".p2p" Then Exit Sub Else Try ' multiple c...
Diffusivity asked 19/12, 2008 at 19:33

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I have the following code: Imports System.IO Public Class Blah Public Sub New() InitializeComponent() Dim watcher As New FileSystemWatcher("C:\") watcher.EnableRaisingEvents = True AddHa...
Festoonery asked 16/1, 2009 at 10:19

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