Folder watch?

[kartal]

Hi

Can Xyplorer monitor certain files and folders for change(create, delete,modify etc) then run certain tasks-operations?

[j_c_hallgren]

No, and from what I know, that type of function is most often done by a totally different type of software, typically one that runs as a service as compared to an application, plus I don't see this capability as being part of what one would expect from a file manager.

[kartal]

"file manager" Watching and organizing files sounds more like file managing to me

I am already using couple macro tools for folder watching but it is always better to decrease the number of tools if there is a way.

[j_c_hallgren]

"file manager" Watching and organizing files sounds more like file managing to me

As I know it, "organizing files = file manager", while "watching files/folders = file monitor" so based on that distinction, I see them as separate products, and I suspect that one would see a similar breakdown on the various software download sites...but that's just my opinion.

[serendipity]

"file manager" Watching and organizing files sounds more like file managing to me

As I know it, "organizing files = file manager", while "watching files/folders = file monitor" so based on that distinction, I see them as separate products, and I suspect that one would see a similar breakdown on the various software download sites...but that's just my opinion.

Same here, burning files to cd is also to do with files but i dont need a burner inside XY.
But i agree that its not easy to decide what all should a file manager do? A feature for one can be a bloat for others, so Don has the final say.
But as with monitoring file, its a pretty resource intensive task, XY has to continuously look for any changes. Instead of live monitoring, an on demand task seems reasonable which actually is what the search already does.
So basically you write a script to search for a modified files or whatever and if there was something modified you select that file and perform the required action. If nothing has changed then script stops right there. So there you go, dig into "loadsearch" command. And not to mention how you can map it to one key stroke.

[kartal]

Ok thanks for the lead, that should at least give me some ideas to play around.

[admin]

Once we get "Custom Event Actions (CEA)" you could open a "watching instance" of XYplorer for each folder you want to watch, and attach a script to the event "Something changed in the watched folder" (which by default triggers the Auto-Refresh action).