File and Folder Watcher

File and Folder Watcher continuously monitors one or more folders for new files. When new files arrive, File and Folder Watcher then triggers a custom action, such as running a second program with the new files. This can be used to:

• Pre-process photos as you take them, using Adobe Droplets
• Process incoming FTP files
• Automatically distil PDF files
• Data mine incoming files with TextPipe Pro, also from DataMystic
• Process email attachments when they are saved to disk
• Load new files into a database
• Quickly and easily trigger business processes when files are created
• and much more!

Files are only processed when they have finished being written to disk - so huge video files (100MB - 10GB or more) will not be processed prematurely.

Files that already exist when File Watcher starts can be processed- this is very handy to pickup files that might have arrived while FileWatcher was not active due to a system restart.

Incoming files can be processed individually, or grouped together.

File Watcher can process only those files that match a filespec (e.g. '*.txt;*.html') and ignore all other files that might arrive at the same time. It can also watch multiple folders at the same time (subfolders are handled with a checkbox).

File Watcher can also prevent triggering new actions while an old action is still running.

User Benefits

• Monitor an unlimited number of folders, including subfolders
• Run unlimited actions per folder watching event
• Monitor folders on local disks, network drives, or FTP locations
• Monitor changed, renamed, deleted and created events or any combination of these
• Filter by file attributes, creation time, directory name, file name or type, size etc
• Never lose a file or folder event regardless of the level of disk activity
• Copy, move, email, print actions, and custom actions via VBScript/JScript integration
• Fully recovers from network location downtime.