Directory Monitor can be used for the surveillance of directories and/or network shares and will notify you of file changes, access, deletions, modifications, new files and inactivity in real-time. Users and processes making the changes can also be detected. Directory Monitor also provides text logs, automation via script/application execution, emailing, writing to a database, sound notifications, printing and more.

Features

• Real-time monitoring of file changes, modifications, deletions, new files and file access.
• Monitor local directories or network shares (including hidden/private shares).
• Balloon notifications whenever an event is detected.
• Options to detect all files in subdirectories and changes to file attributes.
• Optionally execute an application/script when an event occurs.
• Log all changes to a text file of your choice.
• Include and exclude filters per directory.
• Auto updating, import/export.
• Run in the background as a Windows service (PRO).
• Detect the user and application/process that made the changes (PRO).
• Command-line version to run from the console (PRO).
• Snapshots to determine changes even when a share is down or the machine was off (PRO).
• Run external applications/scripts without hidden and in the background (PRO).
• Extend functionality with your own custom plugins using the SDK provided (PRO).

What's New

• Database plugin performance improvement by holding the connection open until events are idle (Ticket #3007).
• Avoid issues with attaching broken or virtual files to emails.
• Fix printer errors when the machine has no printers installed.
• Add additional logging to catch strange blank errors (Ticket #3000).

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