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Platform : Windows2000, XP,



Microsoft Visual C++ .NET (Version 7.1)





I need to process the files in a directory immediately the moment it

gets

deposited in a directory.

I am trying to achieve this by running WaitForMultipleObjects ,

FindFirstChangeNotificationAPI, FindNextChangeNotification in a

While

loop





When I use dos command copy in batch file for copying file from

one folder to other



then my application reads from the destination directory smoothly.



But when I use move command, file moved from one directory to another

but my aplication does not read the file from the directory.



(Please see excerpts of code below:)

int CMyWorkThread::Run()

{

ASSERT_VALID(GetWork());

CDirEventReceiverWork* dirWrk =

dynamic_cast<CDirEventReceiverWork*>(GetWork());

try

{

DWORD timeout = GetCycleTime();

BOOL waitAll = FALSE;

DWORD dwWaitStatus;

while (TRUE)

{

try

{

dirWrk->GetEventDirectoryList(con);

dwChangeHandle= FindFirstChangeNotification ( lpDir, // directory to

watch

subDirState, // do not watch subtree

FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_CREATION |FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_LAST_WRITE); //

watch file name changes



AddToHandleMap(dwChangeHandle, &ci);



dwChangeHandles = GetHandleList();



int nHandles = m_pDirEventServer.GetHandleMap().size()+ 2;



dwWaitStatus = WaitForMultipleObjects(nHandles, dwChangeHandles,



waitAll, timeout);



if(dwWaitStatus == WAIT_TIMEOUT )



{

//Refresh receiver list

continue;

}

if((dwWaitStatus == WAIT_OBJECT_0 + 0) || (dwWaitStatus ==

WAIT_OBJECT_0

+ 1) )

{

//signalled kill event

break;

}



if((dwWaitStatus <= (WAIT_OBJECT_0 +1)) || (dwWaitStatus>=

nHandles))



{

ASSERT(false);

ostringstream ost;

ost << "Invalid wait return value [" << dwWaitStatus << "]";

CABIException(PROGRAM_ERROR, ost.str(), __FILE__, __LINE__);

continue;

}



if(dwWaitStatus == m_pDirEventServer.GetHandleMap().size())

{

//signalled kill event

break;

}



//Process the files

}





Any suggestion or solution will be the great help for me.

Regards



Alok Mahto


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<alokmahto2007@gmail.com>wrote in message

Move doesn't create a new file.... you need to watch for

FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_FILE_NAME as well.





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Hi Ben Voigt

After using FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_FILE_NAME this line in My project It

is working fine.

Thanks for this great help

Regards

Alok Mahto



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On Mar 21, 9:06 am, "Ben Voigt" <r...@nospam.nospam>wrote:



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