File or Directory events which can be monitored:
Contents changed (data written) Creation Deletion Renamed
Use the Add and Delete buttons to add and remove event monitoring commands. Each monitor command contains the following information:
When a monitored event occurs it is reported in the lower panel. Similar file events are reported on a single line, with the Count column tracking the duplicate events. Only 100 events are kept. Any additional events causes older report lines to be deleted. Each captured event contains the following information:
Enable Checked to enable, unchecked to disable Base Directory Starting point to monitor (see subdir) Subdir Check to enable monitoring of base directory and all subdirectories below it Pattern File name or file pattern.
A pattern uses * or ? to mark undefined characters.
Ex: *.txt matches on all files which end in .txt
Any non-pattern matches an exact match.
Ex: foo.dat matches exactly the file foo.dat.Change Checked to monitor for any changes (writes or updates) Create Checked to monitor creation.
Fire when a matching object is createdDelete Checked to monitor deletion.
Fire when a matching object is deletedRename Checked to monitor name changes.
Fire when a matching object name is changedColor This is a cosmetic attribute.
It is used to help associated event reports with the event monitoring command.
You can Right Click over entires in the lower panel to popup additional commands such as:
First Time of the first event on this file or directory Last Time of last event on this file or directory Count Count of events on this file for directory Color Color associated with monitor command which captured this event. Event Description of event which was captured (Change, Create, Delete, Rename) Directory Directory path of object which caused event Name Name part of object which caused event Ext Extension part of object which caused event Size Size of object at time of event (only for files) Modified Time of last modification Attributes Access attributes of object Owner Owner of object
Clear All Clear (remove) all monitored event report lines Clear Selected Clear (remove) all selected event report lines Launch Explorer Launch Windows Explorer with the selected object defining the directory to browse. Launch cmd.exe Launch DOS command prompt with the selected object defining the directory to browse.