Watching a directory using FileSystemWatcher

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Hello I'm watching a directory using FileSystemWatcher.

When a file is created into that directory - my watcher grabs and transfers it to the network drive. My problem is that when a Microsoft-office file is opened, a temporary file is created in the watched directory. I can't find a way to ignore these files and also could not find when I should move these file to the network drive.

Itay Karo · Accepted Answer · 2010-05-26 07:09:41Z

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Temporary files have file attribute that cite it. You can check for this attribute if the FileInfo.Attributes

check this FileAttributes

answered May 26, 2010 at 7:09

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C.Evenhuis · Accepted Answer · 2010-05-26 07:10:14Z

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If I'm not mistaking, those temporary files are hidden files. If that doesn't work, you might consider allowing files with special names (those temporary files start with a tilde ~) to be ignored by your program. Using Regular Expressions you could set more "ignore masks" like that.

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