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Re: Folder Watcher issue
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Re: Folder Watcher issue


  • Subject: Re: Folder Watcher issue
  • From: "Fleisher, Ken" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:21:00 -0400
  • Thread-topic: Folder Watcher issue

Ahh, you are right. I mis-read what the issue was...

Perhaps you could get the Javascript to write a temporary file (a new file
with a unique name) simply to trigger the script. The folder action could
then delete the temporary file.


On 4/9/07 11:16 AM, "Michelle Steiner" <email@hidden> wrote:

> On Apr 9, 2007, at 7:50 AM, Fleisher, Ken wrote:
>
>> Well, the obvious solution is to maintain a list of modification
>> dates for
>> files in that folder and have the script check modification dates
>> against
>> that list.
>
> I think that that will not work.  Apparently, when the Java script
> replaces the file, it does not trigger the folder action, so the
> folder action's script won't run.


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Ken Fleisher

Photographer
Imaging & Visual Services
National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.

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