Wish Tracker told me which file was changing

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I wish Tracker told me what it had noticed that made it do a auto-refresh.

I know I can disable the re-searching by using "Auto-Refresh on File System Changes" but I would dearly love to know whatI have got in Program Files that keeps chenging every five seconds.

Is there perhaps another utlity which can tell me what changes are occuring and which Tracker is responding to?


[Am on XP + SP1]

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In Program Files??? In which subfolder?

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In Program Files??? In which subfolder?

That is the question I to am asking!

I use Tracker to search all of Program Files for a particular file and the results window has hardly finished listing the hits when it starts to search again. It seems to do this every five or 10 seconds in my case.

Sounds like there changes being made to a file there (perhaps log file entries) but I just wish I knew where as I guess Tracker must have a reasonably good idea as it is repsonding to the changes by searching.

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Sounds like there changes being made to a file there (perhaps log file entries) but I just wish I knew where as I guess Tracker must have a reasonably good idea as it is repsonding to the changes by searching.

I would guess so, too, but unfortunately TrackerV3 does not know what's happening! Windows just sends a message that something happened concerning the file system. There are just 5 types of changes that are distinguished, and you don't need to be a programmer to understand this:

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  Public Enum NOTIFY_CHANGE_TYPE
    cwdName = 1&
    cwdDirName = 2&
    cwdAttr = 4&
    cwdSize = 8&
    cwdLastWrite = 16&
  End Enum

So I cannot help you here. I would guess though it's a virus scanner...

I gave to admit that this is a nasty situation. What could we do?
(a) optionally disable auto-refresh for find results mode
(b) have a handy keyboard shortcut to quickly stop auto-refreshing for the current listing
I'm open for ideas.

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I fixed that re-searching bug! Try today's BETA...