Watch 4 Folder v2.3
Andrew Lee on 12 Feb 2013 Change history
- 804KB (uncompressed)
- Suggested by joby_toss
Watch 4 Folder is a simple, small and portable tool to monitor folders and files activities. It can monitor 15 different types of events, execute a program or batch file, or show a pop-up message in case of an event. It is possible to write to a text log file and to watch a live log running.
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| System Requirements: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
| Writes settings to: | None |
| Stealth: ? | Yes |
| Unicode support: | No |
| Path portability: | Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc) |
| License: | Freeware |
| How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch W4F2.exe. |
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4 comments on Watch 4 Folder
grannyGeek
2010-08-27 02:03
I forgot to add --- Watch 4 Folder now allows saving different sets of parameters into multiple INI files, so in effect you can create "profiles" for various tasks and environments. Kewl!
Lyx
2010-08-27 02:26
Would be a great application if it would be readable on my OS-Colorscheme (yes, i cannot read most of its GUI). It as so many applications changes background colors without changing foreground colors. In this case, backgrounds are changed to bright blue. The result in my case is light grey FG on bright blue BG. Note to software devs: If there isn't a good reason to mess with custom colors, just don't do it. In the case of this app, there is no reason for the custom bg-colors.
djangofan
2011-02-11 23:12
the app crashes when it sends me a desktop alert. windows xp sp3.
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I've been trying this out, and works pretty nicely.
This tool may be unique, I did some googling and found no other *free*ware that lets you assign a program or batch file to run when triggered by the monitored events. (I think this feature should be EMPHASIZED in the description.)
RAM usage is high during configuration, climbing to approx 16 mb, but minimize to the taskbar to drop it down to 2.5 ~ 5.5 mb. It could be good to use to automatically sort and move files (such as DropIt), to move and compress files, or to keep folders sychronized. I'm wishing for the author to add support to accept assigned application's commandline parameters, but it is a very nice tool just as it is.