All tools were tested in Windows 10 and Windows 7 bit. While performing the task of watching for a number of different actions such as file or folder create, delete, rename or change, Watch 4 Folder can alert you about the change in several different ways. Trigger alerts can be an ordinary desktop popup window, a custom alert window that appears above the system tray, or executing another program with the changed object optionally supplied as an argument. The events can also be written to an external log file or viewed via the Live Log tab.
Press Apply and then Start on the Watch List tab to begin monitoring. The free version of Watch 4 Folder allows the monitoring of a single folder at a time. Download Watch 4 Folder. There are five editions of Disk Pulse; four paid and a restricted freeware version.
Annoyingly, there is no official information about what those restrictions are. We know from testing, there is a limit of three profiles while email notifications, database logging, and custom actions are disabled.
However, file type monitoring, filters, categories, and rules are no longer disabled like they were in older versions. Disk Pulse will watch file and folder create, modify, rename, and delete changes. Finer controls like name, size, time, and attribute changes are in the profile options.
Double click a profile to enter its options. The Charts option displays a nice bar or pie chart of the changes which can be printed, saved or copied to the clipboard. Save will create a report with several different output formats available.
The Wizard button offers some profile presets that are pre-configured for certain scenarios, such as monitoring for image files, newly created files, or Windows system files. Note: A possible bug we encountered is Disk Pulse will just quit without warning if it has to deal with several thousand events in quick succession, such as when unarchiving or copying. Download Disk Pulse. This program is able to handle the real time monitoring of multiple folders at once and is a very small portable executable of just over KB.
TheFolderSpy can watch for creation, deletion, attribute changes, access date, and file size changes. NET Framework 3. TheFolderSpy has a wildcard option to include certain types of a file although only one can be applied at once.
Something that users may find quite useful is a built in email option that can mail you every time an event is triggered. Obviously, this is only suitable for rare events. Any triggered events will show in the main window, optionally a log file, a system tray balloon popup, and a file can be executed including an audio file.
Download TheFolderSpy. Although the free version of Directory Monitor is still very capable, it has a huge amount of disabled functions reserved for the paid version.
However, unlike Disk Pulse the restrictions are listed on the website. The restrictions include emailing, database options, sound events, printing, inactivity events, snapshots, user event monitoring, running as a service, executing programs in the background, and Growl notifications.
You can quickly add a folder for monitoring by using the text box or the browse button. The disadvantage is only new file events are monitored. To monitor more, either edit the folder or use the Add button which gives the available options when setting up a folder to watch. Multiple folders can be added to the monitor list including network shares. The folder monitoring options also offer include and exclude wildcard patterns, logging to a text file, and executing a file on an event.
Just about everything else there is disabled. Directory Monitor has a portable, installer, and Chocolatey version available for download. For example, if you want to know how to monitor the number of files found in a particular folder, well, the Scripting Guys are only too happy to oblige:.
We begin by connecting to the WMI service on the local computer, although we could just as easily use this same script to monitor a folder on a remote computer; in that case all we have to do is assign the name of that computer e. We next set up a Do While loop, a loop seemingly designed to run forever and ever or, at the very least, to continue running as long as True is equal to True :.
Admittedly, the syntax is a little weird here. Which instance? As it turns out, one of the nifty things about WMI collections is that each collection has a property named Count ; this property tells us how many items in this case, how many files can be found in the collection. Hence our next line of code, which checks to see if the value of the Count property is greater than or equal to What if your target value is actually 10 files or 10, files or whatever number of files?
No problem; just change to the desired value. Well, in that case we pause the script for 60 seconds 60, milliseconds :. However, you can also change this value to anything you desire.
For example, maybe 60 seconds is too long; maybe the folder can fill up with files and bring the application to a crashing halt faster than that.
If there are 60, milliseconds in a minute and there are , then there must be , milliseconds in 10 minutes. Thus this line of code, which pauses the script for 10 minutes between checks:. Now, what if the Count is greater than or equal to ? And once we exit the loop we echo back a message informing us that the target value has been exceeded:. The disadvantage? If colFileList. Echo as a way to issue a notification.
For example, you might want to write an event to the Application event log , or maybe send an email using the SMTP service. I must say I back Lauri up Points are made to acknowledge the help the others are providing you. But: use a schedule policy to run a script that counts the number of files in a directory and sends an opcmon to a threshold monitor. You will have to use 2 monitors a min and a max so that you can get the alerts. HTH, Jean-Bernard. Hi Lauri, -I am currently having OMW environment and want to monitor the folders in the windows environment only.
I want to make a measurement threshold policy which takes value of the threshold from somewhere I am not sure as to what script has to be used Can anyone give me the script Verified Answer.
Hello, Just fetch this script in a Schedule type policy with specific intervals. Please let me know also will it work for you or not Name Next Wscript. Hi All, -i have tested the script and it is working fine.
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