I have to create a windows service which Monitors a specified folder for new files and does someprocessing on it and moves it to other location. I started with using FileSystem Watcher. But my boss doesn't like FileSystemWatcher and wants me to use polling on Timer or any other mechanism other than File System Watcher.
View 8 RepliesI am making a file monitoring tool, what's the best approach in doing that and it returned that I should use filesystemwatcher, others suggested a polling program.
Here's my the current scenario:
My server path (local): C:FilServer
List of folder to monitor for created event:
C:FilServerAB_Incoming - zip files
C:FilServerAC_Incoming - xml and tif files
List of folder to monito for deleted event:
C:FilServerAB_Outgoing - zip files
C:FilServerAC_Outgoing - xml and tif files
When the folder raises event, the detected file will be following this routine:
Move the file to d:ackup and copy to e:source[date][time] and write sumary log.
FileSystemWatcher quits monitoring during execution?
View 1 RepliesCan i monitor changes to the registry like monitoring the files and folders using filesystemwatcher?
View 10 Repliesi tried several ways to monitor the File System of one of the external drives that are connected to my PC using the FileSystemWatcher. But nothing seems to work..[code]
View 2 RepliesI'm having a problem trying to work out how to watch a folder for changes. This is how far I've got:
Class MainWindow
<PermissionSet(SecurityAction.Demand, Name:="FullTrust")> _
Private Sub Window_Loaded(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
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The problem is when a change occurs in the folder the program exits with no error code. I've read a few related posts and I know it has something to do with thread safety. However I've no idea how to make this program "thread safe".
build a program for monitoring specific folder for example : C:MyFolder
i want the program check the bove folder and give me information about the following:
Files with date modified 'current day'
The number of files with date current day
The size for that files
Send that information by e-mail
I am trying to make an app that launches a window(Form Window) whenever a user click a folder in Windows. My app will be running in the background all the time and it will be monitoring the double click of a particular folder.
I have found this[URl]..But the problem is that, it checks attributes of the folder instead of the double click.
Is there anyway i can check the double click of a folder in Windows?
My program needs to monitor two folders and if any files arrives in any of those it needs to be processed.So i created two filewatch tasks & the OnChanged event for both This does not work when the files are already in the folders before i start to run my program.It works for just the new files coming in.having a for each loop files loop in the onChanged event will this work I would like to know what's the best way to achieve this
View 1 RepliesI have developed a tool to watch a folder using the below thread.
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Issues i am facing
1. Its not working on Samba Server
2. I need it to watch on predefined times only. (i.e., may be every 5 Hrs)
PBL (Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate)
I am going to be creating an application which will monitor a folder, which could be a network folder and when new files are added in that folder it will notify the application. On notification application will import those files names into a listbox and will give the option to user to organize(move) those files into a different directory.
1. I have to implement a logic for monitoring the new files in the folder.
2. I have to move it into new directory and in some cases I will have to create those new directories as user specify.
For the first step I am confused to either implement it as a windows service using FileSystemWatcher class, example can be seen here. [URL] or do a file check based on timer, lets say every 5 minutes. If I do it as a service how can the service notify application?
I have created a Windows service in VS 2005 that monitors a folder for XML files, reads some data elements from the XML using XmlDocument, then copies the files to another location. I find that when I drop 2 or more XML files into the folder simultaneously, it processes them with no problems, but when I drop the same files into the folder one at a time, I will get an error on the second file: "The process cannot access the file <my file> because it is being used by another process." If I stop my service, restart it, and drop the second file into the folder again, it works the second time. I am confident that no other program is accessing this file at the same time as my service. My impression is that the processing of file # 1 is somehow not releasing all of the resources, leading to the processing of file # 2 mistakenly thinking that it can't access that second file.
Dim FileWatcher As New FileSystemWatcher()
It points the watcher to my folder, sets up an event handler, then enables the watching:
FileWatcher.Path = InputFolderPath
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IVS 2008 [RESOLVED] Directory & Folder Creation
View 2 RepliesI've written the following code. It works fine for creating, deleting and renaming files. However when I set a file to read only, or modify the file (i.e open it in notepad and change the contents) nothing happens (it doesn't hit the change breakpoint)
I have the following
VB.NET
Private fsw As FileSystemWatcher
Public Sub WatchFiles(ByVal tblMappings As DataSet)
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We can watch the file action by FileSystemWatcher but it give us to only create,rename,delete or replace action report, can we get file access action ? for example when user double click any file? or when run any application?
View 8 RepliesI have a FileSystemWatcher and whenever a file is changed/created it is uploading the file for me to an FTP. My problem is that it keeps uploading the same file 3 times.
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I'm using FileSystemWatcher to monitor a file on a windows server which links into a news ticker on our desktops. The ticker watches the file and updates accordingly. I've successfully got the ticker to watch for a creation and deletion which is great but the changed function doesn't seem to trigger. Out of interest, I tried this function on the network drive AND a local disk with the same results.
I've upped the buffer but I can't see what else I can do to change it! In the short term, we can probably live with just deleting and recreating the file with any changes that are required, but it would be nice if the ticker would just watch for file changes.
I have a filesystemwatcher that watches a certain folder.. Now i use system.thread.sleep to be sure that the file is completely copied to the folder that i watch..But this is not a good way!
I know there is a way to check if the file is open or used by another process, but i dont know the code..
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I have a filesystemwatcher that checks for any changes on the files in a directory, it will then copy them to a new directory. I am getting an error saying that "could not find file C: TMPEFD.tmp", so basically when i edit the[code]...
View 4 RepliesI'm trying to write a simple program to monitor a folder for new files in VB.NET 2010, and am having some trouble. Here's a simplified version of what my program looks like:
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I am working on a file access monitor wrapped up in a VB .Net Class. The ileSystemWatcher is working and my log file shows files when they are accessed. However, I am having trouble returning who or what accessed the files. For example....system services and processes should return something like NT-ATHORITYSYSTEM while a network share being accessed by another computer should return DOMAINUSERNAME and finally a process running in the background via "Switch User" should be returned as DOMAINSOMEOTHERUSER ....anybody have any ideas? I have searched high and low and have found nothing but other people asking the same question and people saying how it is not possible. the Sysinternals Process Monitor is able to output the correct results and its documentation states it was created using NET API however I can not find any references to any such API calls or combination of such. Should I be using something else other than the FileSystemWatcher? My code is below
View 3 RepliesI'm using FileSystemWatcher in an application.it monitors the files in a folder, then do some processing. I monitor FileCreate, Change, Rename, Delete event.the problem is: when I copy some images to that folder, it fired the create event, but the file is not actually ready, so, when I load the file in the event handler, it failed.how can deal with this correctly?
View 2 RepliesI created a VB Windows service with a FileSystemWatcher (VS 2005). When someone places an XML file into a folder, I want the service to read it, then move it to another folder. I do the move with this type of command:
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I have found many pages referring to having the date be part of a txt file being created, but not like the way I need. Having said that, this is what I've got.. [code] I read a page on working with txt files and learned what I could from it. It said to use the method in the beginning of my code for creating the file. It works great, but I would like to have a new file name everday, hence the date being integrated. So even if program was running, when midnight hits, a new txt file is created and new entries are written to that file. But I can't even get the date to be put in there. Everytime I try to make this work by using methods I read about in other pages, I get a syntax error, or a warning saying an end of statement is expected. I'm not sure those methods are compatible with what I've already got going.I was actually trying to store these values in a database, and I got real close I think, but I couldn't get any help to fix my problem so I'm trying to write to daily txt files instead. url....
View 6 Replieshow should i copy a file in system32 folder from resources folder .resx file of my windows application?
View 1 RepliesI have a files list which contain the directory of file. I want to know file creation date of that files. I used fileInof.CreationTime. But It is not displayed creation date. How I can know about this.
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how can i write <p> <br/> hello this is my creation </p> in xml file while i am creating it by the use of asp.net .
it is showing <P> text </P>
i wants to create an dll (classlibrary) file for displaying selected data form database by using a gridview control.for this iam creating an dll file , in that how to declare gridview1 [code]
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to make my application append to a simple log file when it executed and when it's closed. So far, so good (see code)
However, what I would like to do, is have future lines of text to be written on the next line instead of the same line. And possibly a date stamp.
I'm not quite sure how to implement this as far as syntax goes.
My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText("C:log.txt", "Application was closed ", True)
I'm trying to save a files save date, modify that file and then restore the file back to it's original date. I can't get it to work, I've tried it several ways and cannot get it to work.
My code so far is
origdate = My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFileInfo("inspection").L astWriteTime.ToShortDateString()
' changing file content here
System.IO.File.SetLastAccessTime("inspection", origdate)