Folder monitor?

[chefb...@gmail.com]

Hello,
Does anyone know of a folder monitor that has growl capabilities? Mostly the program I'm looking for would give a notification when a new file is added to a folder.

Thank you,

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[mattn]

If you use Perl, https://gist.github.com/1976506

[SoddenGecko]

Hi

Adam Pash over at lifehacker created an application called Belvedere http://lifehacker.com/341950/belvedere-automates-your-self+cleaning-pc. It is a folder monitor and has a ton of available rules you can use when a folder is updated. 

This is from lifehacker:

Use Belvedere's friendly interface to create advanced rules to move, copy, delete, rename, or open files based on their name, extension, size, creation date, and more. 

You could create a rule that monitors a folder and then runs a custom command once that rule is met. the custom command would be to launch growlnotify.com to send the messages you need with the information you want. for example:

"C:\Program Files\Growl for Windows\growlnotify.exe" /a:"Folder Monitor" /r:"New File" /n:"New File" /t:"Folder Update" "The folder you are monitoring has changed"

Belvedere has built in growl support on completion of actions but no action to just announce via growl when a file is added to a folder (that i can find). So you would use a custom action and use the command I have provided above and it should be fine. I have not tested this myself but from the other custom actions I use in 3rd party apps this should work fine.

HTH

[mattn]

File::ChangedNotify can do it.

http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-ChangeNotify/lib/File/ChangeNotify.pm