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Manabi
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I am trying to make a scheduled task that when I put a file in a certain folder (an example would be I'm in a paint chat app and I save a screenshot of it from the page) I want that file to be uploaded to a remote ftp server. I don't think that there is an event that is logged when I place files in any folders, and I would rather be able to do this right in Windows rather than having another program running. For instance the folder that has the files in it is c:\user\john\desktop\paintchat\ and the ftp server is ftp://example.com/pictures/pchat/.

I did try to get to the Windows Vista help groups, but it's broken in both Firefox 3 and IE 7.

Matthew van Eerde
AKA Maurits

> I don't think that there is an event that is logged when I place files in any folders

There can be. Right-click the folder and choose Properties, Security, Advanced, Auditing. Turn Auditing on and you can get an event; you can then tell Task Scheduler to watch for that event.

(I think.)

Manabi
Take back the web!

In reply to Matthew van Eerde

#Jul 29th, 2008 @ 9:37 AM

I attempted to save a file in a subfolder, and the only events that I saw under "Security" were the ones pertaining to applying the auditing settings. I selected Successful and Failed for both "Create files / write data" and "Create folders / append data." The object name that I selected was [username]/[COMPUTERNAME].

AndyC

In reply to Manabi

#Jul 29th, 2008 @ 6:20 PM

You also need to enable auditing in the local security policy otherwise file audit ACLs are ignored.

Matthew van Eerde
AKA Maurits

Rereading your scenario, "sync" comes to mind. Are there any in-box solutions for syncing a folder on disk to a folder on an FTP site?

staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...

In reply to Matthew van Eerde

#Jul 30th, 2008 @ 8:59 AM

Well you could use Live Mesh to sync the two folders. The server side can then "serve" the folder via ftp or other. At this point the server needs to be osx or windows.