Use Terminal to Monitor a Folder for Changes

With a FileSystemWatcher, you can monitor folders for file changes and respond immediately when changes are detected. This way, you can create “ ...

With a FileSystemWatcher, you can monitor folders for file changes and respond immediately when changes are detected. This way, you can create “drop” folders.

With a FileSystemWatcher, you can monitor folders for file changes and respond immediately when changes are detected. Simple Mode (synchronous) · Learning Points · Advanced Mode (asynchonous)

First you need to create a FileSystemWatcher and subsequently you subscribe to an event that the watcher is generating using Register-ObjectEvent.

You can monitor a folder and then specific extensions within the folder. And then you set up a PowerShell scriptblock to handle any accesses.

A powershell implementation that will raise an event to let you know if a file was added, deleted, modified, etc.

Login to ADAudit Plus → Go to File Audit tab → Under File Audit Reports section on the left pane→ Click All Files or Folders Changes Reports.

To monitor a folder for new files, Login to ADAudit Plus → Go to File Audit tab → Under File Audit Reports → Navigate to Files Created report.

Monitoring a folder for new files is easy with Netwrix Auditor — simply choose the Subscribe option and define the schedule and recipients.

All I want to do is watch a folder for any new files with a certain file extension and copy them them to a new location.