Writing A File Directory Watcher
Sep 19, 2009
I need to write a small program that monitors a group of file directories for files being written to them and them move them as quickly as possible to a different process directory.I was very happy to find FileSystemWatcher in .NET. The event fires immediately. Unfortunately it fires when the very frist byte hits the directory.I'm using the following event:[code]My problem with this is, I am following up with code to move this file and if the file is big enough I will get the error:"process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process".That make sense to me but I'm struggling with finding a "file complete" event or some other programmatic indication that the file has completly arrived and can be "moved".I don't want to set an arbitrary timer.These files are on their way to a printer and I don't want to stick delays in a process that the users will notice and complain about.
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May 13, 2008
I am using WritePrivateProfileString for writing INI file in Windows directory and GetPrivateProfileString for reading INI file from Windows directory. In one of my system, I found that writing is not working but reading is working fine. On further investigation, I surprised to find another another Windows folder in C:document and Settings<username>windows. And WritePrivateProfileString is writing INI File in that folder, but reading from C:windows. Any Idea why it is happening? More information Windir Environment variable is returning C:windows and I am passing only file name not full path in the API function. This thing is working fine in all other systems.
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May 4, 2011
I am developing an application that Monitors a specific folder for file changes such as modify deletion, update, etc. The only problem I have is , the application doesn't fire up File events.
Here is the code:
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Diagnostics
Public Class Form1
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Mar 19, 2012
I am trying to make a handle for a custom control I made. The user control consists of many additional controls within.I am using this code to add the user control to my Form.
Dim ToolBox As New ToolboxPanel
It's created and works fine.
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Jul 11, 2009
I have downloaded 5 apps so far to get an idea on watching a dir for a file created, but every app i run i get an error like this
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May 25, 2011
I created a VB.NET 4.0 program that uses the FileSystemWatcher class to monitor a file for changes. I have one user who is on a Mac running a Windows virtualization. Here is her description of her setup (p.s. Revit is not my program, mine is suplementary to Revit and works with the keynote file mentioned):
I work on an iMac (Snow Leopard,) and have Revit 2012 installed in a Boot Camp partition of Windows 7, which I then run through a Parallels 6 window. I used to run Revit just through Parallels, sans Boot Camp, but this seems to work better (faster.) I do store my Revit files in the Mac OS, but the keynote file is in Windows 7. Obviously this is a non-standard setup, but it is causing the FileSystemWatcher to fail. Is anyone familiar with this or know why it's failing or if it can be fixed?
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Jan 13, 2010
I am using FileSystemWatcher in order renaming files within a Watched directory.The problem occurs if the number of files copied simultaneously to the watched directory exceeds the number of 50...The rename event is fired successfully for the first 50 files, but after that nothing happens?
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Jan 7, 2010
I am using standalone application vb.net(2.0) and using filesysystem watcher class to find any new xml coming into that specified directory then application take that file and continue the process but the direcotry have been located in network machine. Now my problem is, once the path is not available it mean the shared path server going to offline, then my application not intimate me.
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Aug 21, 2009
What exactly does a System File Watcher do? And what can you do with it?
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Jul 12, 2010
Does the File Watcher class in VB.NET only watch one folder? Or can I have it notify me of any change in the whole drive?
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Mar 15, 2009
Here is my stuck in a rut kind deal.I am using Visual Basic Express Editoin 2008. (Most of these forums and samples and stuff is either C# VB 2005). I just want to simply know how I can "View or Monitor" the access.log file that is on my server?
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May 21, 2009
I have created a file watcher but I have a problem with the file watcher.here is the
vb.net
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
Private watchfolder As IO.FileSystemWatcher[code]....
And I have the Following error
InvalidOperationException
"Cross-thread operation not valid: Control 'txtmonitor' accessed from a thread other than the thread it was create on."
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Jul 12, 2009
My application creates a file by writing to System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory() & "data/" & filename...Now this works fine usually, but I just added a setup utility to the app, so now it installs to the program files directory. It installs correctly and creates the data folder, however when it tries to write the file it gets an exception "unauthorized access".
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Jul 20, 2010
I'm creating a simple .NET console application where I want to save a file in a folder that's part of the root project, like so: SolutionName.ProjectNameTestData. I want to put test.xml into the TestData folder. However, when I go to save my XDocument, it saves it to SolutionName.ProjectNameinx86Debug Console est.xml.
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Feb 9, 2012
copying the file from one Directory to another directory by create the folder if that folder is not exists in destination directory.Example:
Source path: C: emp est1.txt
destination path: C:Data
if C:Data doesn't contains "temp" or "test" folder, it should create the folder before copy the 1.txt.[code]....
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Jun 30, 2009
I'll tell you what I'd like to do which is to create a directory listing of every file inside a specified directory and then use a loop to upload each file in this directory to a remote folder via FTP.
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Feb 1, 2010
I am attempting to compare two directory trees. I have the program map the network drive and copy a directory. I need it to verify that the files copied successfully by comparing the source to the destination. If comparison returns equal then perform action1, if comparison returns unequal then perform action2.
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Aug 17, 2011
Is there any simple way to copy a single file out of one directory to a new one?
I tried this:
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Dec 14, 2009
I Want to filter a file using filesystem watcher. In that, I want to filter more than one type. Let it be, *.exe, *.java..
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May 11, 2009
How to create a windows registry watcher application using .Net,I want this application to watch all the registry hocks and fire an event when a value change, this event will tell the old and new value for that value.
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Mar 5, 2011
how can i watch multiple directories with the filesystem watcher at the same time?
I am making a backup program that detects changes in certian folders and backs up the change
If it is not worth it, it is not fun - you say programmers are boring but i say they are worth it.
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Apr 29, 2011
There is a Folder where our client downloads the ".BCH" files on a daily basis. I want to be notified via the E-mail once there is a new file downloaded. I am using a Folder Watcher to accomplish this. Here is the code:
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Mar 7, 2010
I'm trying to detect the insertion of a USB-Serial COM port device. I found an example that shows how to detect a new USB device - and that part is now working well in my project. The question is, how do I pass on that event back to my Form1 class? In the example, I can create a MsgBox just fine, but if I try to manipulate any of the controls on my form, or raise a user-defined event, I get this message: 'System.InvalidOperationException' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dll
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Feb 9, 2012
I have some problem with copying the file from one Directory to another directory by create the folder if that folder is not exists in destination directory.
Example:
Source path: C: emp est1.txt
destination path: C:Data
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Mar 26, 2010
I am trying to use the filesystem watcher to monitor a folder on a ftp site for files added. Does anyone know how to do this? I have even read that the filesystem watcher was not meant for ftp's but rather local monitoring, which doesn't make sense to me.
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Jul 5, 2009
So I need to write out an object to a text file as well as read in objects from text files.How do I accomplish this? This is the code i've used to read and write just simple lines of text. Is there a small modification to this or just a different function i use to read in an entire object?
Code:
Dim path As String
path = "Security.txt"
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Jul 17, 2010
I have just recently been using VB 2010 after using VB5. I have noticed a lot of changes. The problem I have is that I wish to open and save text files to and from arrays in the background. I've attached what I would do in VB5. I have searched around, but all the examples I find use a Textbox instead of an array. Can anyone show me how I can do this with VB 2010?
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Jun 9, 2011
I am creating a text file using a save file dialog and copying the path to the text box which file is used to write from vb.net. when i try to write i get an error "The process cannot access the file '....fileName.txt' because it is being used by other program".
The code is below
Public Sub writeInTextFile()
Try
Dim oWrite As New StreamWriter(TxtOutputPath.Text)
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Mar 11, 2010
I am attempting to gather a group of file names from a directory. I am able to do this. I tested the code by having the list populate into a listbox and all desired items were added to the list.
Here is my code:
Dim di As New IO.DirectoryInfo(strPath)
Dim dir1 As IO.FileInfo() = di.GetFiles("*.txt")
Dim dFiles As IO.FileInfo
ListBox.Items.Add(dFiles)
However, a listbox is not my desired output. I am attempting to write these file names to a text file for purposes of then parsing the information to a datatable to compare with another datatable. How to get my filenames written to a textfile.
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Apr 12, 2011
I am working on a program using VB.Net 2010 which will enable me to setup groups of files & folders for back up with syncing capabilities etc. I have a concept program which is based on some sample code I found out in one of the VB.Net forums. I have modified it from a command line based program to a form based program. At the moment I consider this code to be a "concept" program which once I have the various copy/sync routines developed and debugged will be integrated in to another program I wrote for
creating "Back Up" groups to automate the process. There are some 3rd party programs that do similar things that I want to do such as Microsofts Sync Toy, but none of them offer the grouping and exclusions options that I am going to program in to this backup/sync program.
So here is my problem, I have the included code taking two folders, a source and a destination, and copying everything from the source to the destination. It will skip over any unchanged files/folders and will delete anything found in the destination folder that is not found in the source folder and it will update all files in the destination folder that have a newer version in the source folder. In other words it will mirror image the source to the destination but will be smart enough not to copy unchanged items from the source to the destination thereby saving a lot of time. The sync part of the program is working fine, the displaying of the progress and results is not.
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