Monitoring folders and files - (Moved)

[ericire]

Hello,
I need to monitor events regarding multiple folders and files.
For example, the arrival of a file in the google drive sync on the hard disk or changes made to files or other folders.
I tested Rmonitor which works well to monitor a single folder but in the case of google drive sync, it stops at changes made in the temporary folder used by google, and therefore does not capture the arrival of the file in the folder of destination.
Is Rmonitor configurable to capture all the changes (I did not understand the interest of the loops while 1 in the example), or do you have to multiply Rmonitor for each watched folder?
Or is there another way to capture these changes on several specific folders and files?
Rmonitor thread
https://www.autoitscript.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?p=78100#p78100
Rmonitor file
https://www.autoitscript.fr/forum/download/file.php?id=3245
example

#include "RepMonitor.au3" ; Configuration: ; On va surveiller mon bureau... RMonitor_SetFolder("C:\Users\Jon\Desktop\") ; ...en appelant _TestCalback à chaque évènement RMonitor_SetCallback("_TestCallback") ; ### EXEMPLE 1: Attente d'un évènement ### While 1     ; La boucle est interrompue à chaque attente     RMonitor_WaitForEvents() WEnd ; ### EXEMPLE 2: Surveillance continue ### RMonitor_StartMonitoring() While 1     ; La boucle est continue WEnd RMonitor_StopMonitoring() ; Notre callback favorite: ;   Un seul argument de type wstr ;   Prototype C: ;       void _TestCallback(const wchar_t MSG); ;       void _TestCallback(LPCWSTR MSG); (en WINAPI) Func _TestCallback($MSG)     ; 1er caractère = ID de l'évènement     Local $EventID = StringLeft($MSG, 1), _         $CompletePath = "C:\Users\Jon\" & StringTrimLeft($MSG, 1)     ; Reste = Chemin RELATIF du dossier|fichier     Static $OldName     Switch ($EventID)         Case $FILE_ACTION_ADDED             ConsoleWrite("Ajout: " & $CompletePath & @CRLF)         Case $FILE_ACTION_REMOVED             ConsoleWrite("Suppression: " & $CompletePath & @CRLF)         Case $FILE_ACTION_MODIFIED             ConsoleWrite("Modification: " & $CompletePath & @CRLF)         Case $FILE_ACTION_RENAMED_OLD_NAME             $OldName = $CompletePath         Case $FILE_ACTION_RENAMED_NEW_NAME             ConsoleWrite("Renommé: " & $OldName & " en " & $CompletePath & @CRLF)     EndSwitch EndFunc

 

[Melba23]

Moved to the appropriate forum, as the AutoIt Example Scripts forum very clearly states:

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[nend]

Do you mean this?

 

[orbs]

no matter how you look at it, ReadDirectoryChangesW supports a single root path per thread - meaning, it can monitor only a single folder and its subfolders per thread. since AutoIt is not multithreaded, that limitation becomes process-dependent, rather than thread-dependent - meaning, one process can monitor only a single folder and its subfolders. the help file example for _WinAPI_ReadDirectoryChanges() is a perfectly workable script for a single folder, so if you rely on AutoIt alone, you need to run that script multiple times for multiple folders.

a workaround is of course as suggested above, using an external DLL.

[Nine]

Like orbs implies you will need multiple processes to monitor multiple folders using _WinAPI_ReadDirectoryChanges().  But it would be kind of easy to create a single monitor script (parent) that would launch multiple  _WinAPI_ReadDirectoryChanges() processes (childs) and grab the results reading at StdoutRead (). 

[ericire]

thanks for this ways
I am studying the RDC example which obviously refers to a mother file that can monitor several folders