Question

Is it possible to copy a new file created by third party application inside a directory automatically on windows?

It goes like:

Third party process ‘P’ creates a new temporary file ‘F’ inside a directory ‘D’. Whenever this file F is created by the process P, I want to copy this file F into another directory D2. Additional problem is that file F gets deleted by the process P after some time. So cron job won’t help.

I think, I need to trap ‘new file created’ event somehow, if any such thing exists.

Answer 1

The easiest way would be to write a program in c# which uses the FileSystemWatcher class.

See: FileSystemWatcher

Then catch the created event, and copy the file.