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Download the source code and try out all the examples for better understanding. LdapConnection System. Xml namespace Yield Keyword. Net is a useful way to monitor a file system. Its definition is contained in the System. IO namespace. This object contains fields to mark which file or directory is to be monitored. You can combine the members of the NotifyFilters enumeration to watch for more than one type of change at a time.

For example, you can watch for changes in size of a file, and for changes in the LastWrite time. This raises an event anytime there is a change in file or folder size, or a change in the LastWrite time of the file or folder. This is one way to filter out unwanted notifications. For more information on filtering out unwanted notifications, see the Filter , IncludeSubdirectories , and InternalBufferSize properties. Because this API is more advanced, try it out before proceeding.

Save the WatchDir example to your computer, and compile it. Create a test directory that will be passed to the example. WatchDir uses a single thread to process all events, so it blocks keyboard input while waiting for events. Either run the program in a separate window, or in the background, as follows:. Play with creating, deleting, and editing files in the test directory. When any of these events occurs, a message is printed to the console.

When you have finished, delete the test directory and WatchDir exits. Or, if you prefer, you can manually kill the process. You can also watch an entire file tree by specifying the -r option. When you specify -r , WatchDir walks the file tree , registering each directory with the watch service. The first step is to create a new WatchService by using the newWatchService method in the FileSystem class, as follows:.

Next, register one or more objects with the watch service. Honestly, your first step is to make sure that this works and your command will print out the file you specify. Once that is good then you can worry about task scheduler. Here is a great resource for how to do that. Thanks for the great post, this exactly fix what i need!. One question, i am running the script on a Windows 10 pro machine, and i have also added one more command to remove the pdf file in the folder after it printed.

Everything works when i run it directly, the pdf prints, the Adobe closed the file will be removed. But when it runs from the task scheduler, nothing is print and the file is being removed, i tried to log out and let the task scheduler do it automatically … same result. I checked the print but there is no print job received. Do you have any idea? Hi Johnny, I have begun noticing the same behavior and have not had the chance to sit down and troubleshoot to figure out the cause.

Hi Greg, i want to print all the files automatically from a folder without i have to mention file names. Is there any way we can do that?? Vijay, as Heath mentioned up a ways in the comments this can be accomplished by the following….

Hi Greg. Great Post! The last comment I see is from a guy named Vijay. He is asking about automatic printing. I am as well, but I will give you some context. We are moving to a cloud based rental management system, and as with most cloud based systems, they are removing the capability to print direct to printer.

The system creates a pdf which we then have to instruct adobe to print. I am hoping that I can write a script to just have this pdf immediately printed to the default printer. The software creates a local tmp folder for these documents, and is purged one adobe is closed. This will eliminate a rather erroneous step. Could I maybe pick your brain as to how to accomplish this? I would greatly appreciate any assistance. Then it causes Adobe to open up and if you actually want a hard copy you have to hit print again inside the Adobe application?

A previous user commented to someone else about doing something similar I think. Here is an excerpt from his comment. Give it a look and see. It would be something similar to. When it finds one, it will basically run the normal action that has been discussed in this thread, but you can change that -Action scriptblock to any valid PS code that you like.

After 30 days it just makes you wait 30 seconds or something like that when first launching the app. Good luck and thanks again Greg. Heath, thanks again for chiming in on this and thanks for your suggestions.

Thank you for the suggestion. Febooti ended up being a better option for my exit strategy. Your script, with a couple slight modifications Increase time before kill, etc worked perfectly. Awesome blog btw!