I want to use function ReadDirectoryChangesW() in asynchronous mode with I/O completion routine supplied. The question is I don't know how to retrieve the exact information about the change in th...

I want to know any change files of the specific directory. So, I figured out ReadDirectoryChangesW() and FindFirstChangeNotification() - FindNextChangeNotification() APIs. Then, I implemented using...

I want my code to be notified when any file under (either directly or indirectly) a given directory is modified. By "modified", I mean I want my code to be notified whenever a file's contents are a...

I’m using ReadDirectoryChangesW to spy a folder, if I’m copying a large file to the folder, I can receive multiple FILE_ACTION_MODIFIED messages, it seems each time windows writes a large chunk of ...

There are many posts on the internet about the ReadDirectoryChangesW API function missing files when there is a lot of file activity. Most blame the speed at which the ReadDirectoryChangesW functio...

I use ReadDirectoryChangesW to watch a specified directory and update indexing structures whenever a change is detected. I use the following code (roughly) var InfoPointer : PFileNotifyInformatio...

The following is a minimal program which uses ReadDirectoryChangesW. The problem I am having is that only the first call to GetQueuedCompletionStatus returns. The second time through the loop it bl...

I have a thread that uses ReadDirectoryChangesW to notify me when a file is added or deleted in a folder. For each new image, I open the file and create a thumbnail of the image. It would seem ho...

Exactly as it sounds, I'm attempting asynchronous ReadDirectoryChangesW with IO Completion and it isn't working, specifically, GetLastError repeatedly returns 258 (GetQueuedCompletionStatus timeout...

I am developing a piece of C code that uses ReadDirectoryChangesW() to monitor changes under a directory in Windows. I have read the related MSDN entries for ReadDirectoryChangesW() and the FILE_NO...

I've read the documentation for ReadDirectoryChangesW() and also seen the CDirectoryChangeWatcher project, but neither say why one would want to call it asynchronously. I understand that the curren...