Hello everyone and thanks for your help in advance. I am in need of writing some type of back program (I think) that can monitor selected folders and look for either new files or changes. When a new file is detected or a change made, the program would copy the affected file to a remote folder on a network server. I have not run across any commercial programs that seem to fit the bill, however, I am open to suggestions. I've got to believe someone has run across this type of need previously and am wondering if someone can point me to some code snippets to piece this thing together. I've Googled it do death without any real success and am surprised its not readily available. Any help on this topic would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hello,

Actually, this can be achieved little bit easily with .net using "FileSystemWatcher". It monitors the files, created, edited, deleted, and using System.net (I am not sure, here) or "wininet.dll" for uploading/downloading files to the remote server's folder, can be done, easily.

I have done similar kind of thing (but two different projects, 1. for watching file system (.net), 2. transferring files to remote server (vb6.0)) and both can be merged by logical approach.

For transferring files check this link:
http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=54850

and for FileSystemWatcher, you can do it in few steps and few lines of code in vs.net (hardly takes 1 hour or less)

Give a try.

Hope this helps.

With Regards,
Raghavendra Mudugal