Monitor File Events Help

Monitor File Events allows you to monitor a File System for major file and directory events. The interface is split into two panels. The upper panel contains the monitor commands. The lower panel contains the captured events.

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:

    Enable Checked to enable, unchecked to disable
    Base Directory Starting point to monitor (see subdir)
    SubdirCheck to enable monitoring of base directory and all subdirectories below it
    PatternFile 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.
    ChangeChecked to monitor for any changes (writes or updates)
    CreateChecked to monitor creation.
    Fire when a matching object is created
    DeleteChecked to monitor deletion.
    Fire when a matching object is deleted
    RenameChecked to monitor name changes.
    Fire when a matching object name is changed
    ColorThis is a cosmetic attribute.
    It is used to help associated event reports with the event monitoring command.
    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:
    FirstTime of the first event on this file or directory
    LastTime of last event on this file or directory
    CountCount of events on this file for directory
    ColorColor associated with monitor command which captured this event.
    EventDescription of event which was captured (Change, Create, Delete, Rename)
    DirectoryDirectory path of object which caused event
    NameName part of object which caused event
    ExtExtension part of object which caused event
    SizeSize of object at time of event (only for files)
    ModifiedTime of last modification
    AttributesAccess attributes of object
    OwnerOwner of object
    You can Right Click over entires in the lower panel to popup additional commands such as:
    Clear AllClear (remove) all monitored event report lines
    Clear SelectedClear (remove) all selected event report lines
    Launch ExplorerLaunch Windows Explorer with the selected object defining the directory to browse.
    Launch cmd.exeLaunch DOS command prompt with the selected object defining the directory to browse.