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0 pointsradiospiel11y ago0 comments

> Other OSes have different file monitoring capabilities though. Anyone up on file monitoring on Windows / OS X? Is directory-specific monitoring possible?

yes

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MrDosu11y ago

But ReadDirectoryChangesW notoriously misses updates. Also it would scale horribly to large amounts of files.

NTFS has a feature called Change Journals where you can view a volume as a stream of changes.

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0 pointsradiospiel11y ago0 comments

> Other OSes have different file monitoring capabilities though. Anyone up on file monitoring on Windows / OS X? Is directory-specific monitoring possible?

yes

0 comments

MrDosu11y ago

But ReadDirectoryChangesW notoriously misses updates. Also it would scale horribly to large amounts of files.

NTFS has a feature called Change Journals where you can view a volume as a stream of changes.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse