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  • Subject: Monitor Folder For Changes
  • From: "Frank W. Walker" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 15:10:22 -0500
  • Thread-topic: Monitor Folder For Changes

I am trying to write a script which will monitor a folder and copy any files which are newly added or updated to another location. So far, I have a folder action script which launches when a file is added to the folder. I check the creation date of files in the folder and copy recently-created files to another folder.
The problem is this:
the files are very large so they take a minute or two to copy. During this time, another file or files might be added to the folder, in which case they are ignored by my script once it is done copying. Is there some way I can avoid missing any changes to the folder as far as new/updated files? I'm hoping someone has a ready-made script which does just this, since it seems like a generally useful tool.

FWW
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