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Post New Requests Here / Re: Idea: Directory/File Monitor Change Notification

« on: March 13, 2007, 04:25 PM »

Crush-
I would be using it to notify others of updated files so that I don't have to go around telling everyone 'check your directory for new files' or relying on them to check for updates. Has nothing to do with viruses or such. I suspect that once past the initial code of the directory structure. That it could easily scale to several directories. If it monitors a directory and it's subdirectories then all I would need is 1. If it didn't do subdirectories then I would need to monitor 6 individual directories.

Back in the 'Old' days when I ran a BBS that received files from a satellite system, I had written a program that did this in order to initiate other actions... zip/unzip, create a message to notify users of file availability & automatically re-distribute files to other BBS's. I was one of the area hubs for fidonet mail & file distribution.  But that was a Dos based environment, I haven't done any windows programming.


jgpaiva-
Thanks, I'll check it out.

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Post New Requests Here / Idea: Directory/File Monitor Change Notification

« on: March 13, 2007, 11:42 AM »

Program to monitor a directory or set of directories and simply notify if a file has changed or files have been added. A button or option to indicate that the change has been noted and to start a fresh monitor.