Hi Wes,
Mmm, I don't think the first idea is gonna work. Here's what I'm getting
for
FileCreated and FolderCreated:
Folder Created: C:\temp\new folder
File Created: C:\temp\new text document.txt
I may have to go down that second route, with two separate FSW's, which
seems a real pain for something this simple...
Thanks for the help!
JON
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Hello Jon,
For my application I didn't have to distinguish between file/dir on the
delete event. However I have couple ideas/workarounds that may work.
1) Maybe the e.FullPath ends in a '\' char and if so then you could use that
to determine that it is a directory.
2) You could setup Two FileSystemWatchers, one for Files and one for
Directories, ie one with NotifyFilter.FileName and the other with
NotifyFilter.DirectoryName
I haven't tried either of these, they are just possible ideas that I'm
throwing out there.
HTH
Wes Haggard
http://weblogs.asp.net/whaggard/
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From: "Jon Maz" <
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Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: FileSystemWatcher - distinguish file and folder events?
Hi Wes,
Your workaround's a good idea... Have got it working for Created / Renamed /
Changed, but not for Deleted (presumably for the simple reason that once
something - file or folder - is deleted, Directory.Exists will return
"false").
Any ideas for distinguishing between a FileDeleted and a FolderDeleted
event?
Cheers,
J
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Hello Jon,
Here is what I did to determine if it was a directory or not.
protected void FileCreated(object sender, FileSystemEventArgs e)
{
if (e.ChangeType == WatcherChangeTypes.Created)
{
if (Directory.Exists(e.FullPath))
// Do what you need to do with a directory
else
// Do what you need to do with a file
}
}
HTH
Wes Haggard
http://weblogs.asp.net/whaggard/
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Maz" <
[email protected]>
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sharp
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 4:20 PM
Subject: FileSystemWatcher - distinguish file and folder events?
Hi there,
I am experimenting with the FileSystemWatcher object. I have set the
NotifyFilter as follows:
myFileSystemWatcher.NotifyFilter = NotifyFilters.Security |
NotifyFilters.CreationTime |
NotifyFilters.LastWrite |
NotifyFilters.Size |
NotifyFilters.Attributes |
NotifyFilters.DirectoryName|
NotifyFilters.FileName;
and am looking for these events:
myFileSystemWatcher.Created / Changed / Deleted / Renamed / Error
My question is, how do I distinguish between a FSW Event being fired by the
creation of a FILE, and being fired by the creation of a FOLDER? I've
looked around in the docs and can't find anything.
Is it simply that files have a ".something" suffix and folders do not?
TIA,
JON
