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We’re using SOTI to control our Windows Mobile devices and are encrypting certain files and directories on the device.
SOTI encryption runs, effectively, in the background and we need a way of knowing when it’s finished (so we can restore access to the imapcted applications).
Does anyone know of a way of identifying whether SOTI has finished encryption a file or directory?
While SOTI is encrypting a particular file, it creates a temp file with the same name and some extension (sorry, I don’t remember the extension). You could conceivably poll for the existence of this temp file, and assume the file is finished encrypting when it goes away.
A similar method might work for a whole directory – keep checking the directory until you don’t see any file with the temporary extension. You’d want to make sure you don’t find a temp file for a couple of seconds, to make sure you don’t accidentally catch SOTI between files.
If I recall correctly, SOTI also displays a message box (on the Windows side) when encryption is complete. You could poll for this box popping up in a variety of ways.