filesystemwatcher

We have built a window service that listens to folders with FileSystemWatcher , when created we process the file and so on. But after couple of days the event stops working. Is it possible that it being collected by the garbage collector (GC)? Does the GC collect it holding class (which is a singleton)? Should I use a weak event? Do I have a bug that means the event gets unregistered? What i think the problem is, that FSW has an internal buffer, when it overflows its an error, take a look in this article that offer code to solve this problem. Hope this help anyone. Gustavo Mori A couple of

I am downloading a file and want to execute the install only after the download is complete. How do I accomplish this? Seems like FileSystemWatcher onCreate event would do this but this happens in a different thread, is there a simple way to force the waiting part to happen in the same thread. Code I have so far FileSystemWatcher w = new FileSystemWatcher(@"C:/downloads"); w.EnableRaisingEvents = true; w.Created += new FileSystemEventHandler(FileDownloaded); static void FileDownloaded(object source, FileSystemEventArgs e) { InstallMSI(e.FullPath); } I looked at SynchronizingObject and

How can I implement a FileSystemWatcher for an FTP location (in C#). The idea is whenever anything gets added in the FTP location I wish to copy it to my local machine. Any ideas will be helpful. This is a follow up of my previous question Selective FTP download using .NET . You're going to have to implement a polling solution, where you keep asking for the directory content periodically. Compare this to a cached list from the previous call and determine what happened that way. There's nothing in the FTP protocol that will help you with this unfortunately. The FileSystemWatcher class works by

I monitor files that are dropped on a ftp via filesystem watcher then move to another dir. Now I trigger the copy off the create event of the filesystem watcher but obviously in the case of ftp the create is just a stub file and the data comes in and fills the file as it uploads till complete. Anyone have an elegant solution for this, or do I have to do what I think I have to do 1 wait till last access time is about n ms in past before I copy 2 throw a control file in there to state that that file is done being copied, then delete control file 3 pound the crap out of it this is a very naive

I am using Java 7, java.nio.file.WatchEvent along with the WatchService. After registering, when I poll for ENTRY_MODIFY events, i cannot get to the absolute path of the file for the event. Is there any way to get to the absolute path of the file from WatchEvent object? irreputable You need to get the parent directory from the WatchKey to resolve the full path WatchKey key; WatchEvent<Path> event; Path dir = (Path)key.watchable(); Path fullPath = dir.resolve(event.context()); This piece of code reads like it needs accompanying documentation to be grasped, it makes little sense on its own. What

I am very new to coding and I'm writing an application which will rename files by appending milliseconds to the existing filename of files which have been scanned in from an MFD. The folder is a shared folder and the renamed file should stay within it and not be copied elsewhere. From doing a lot of searching, I know that File.Move is my way forward, however, I can't seem to get it to work. Here's my code: private void MonitorToggle_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { // Create a new FileSystemWatcher object. FileSystemWatcher fsWatcher = new FileSystemWatcher(); switch (MonitorToggle.Text) {