Is there a good way to detect deletes in Java? I know I can loop through the contents of a folder and compare the previous results, but is there a better event driven way?
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Is there a good way to detect deletes in Java? I know I can loop through the contents of a folder and compare the previous results, but is there a better event driven way?
There’s no pure-java way to do what you describe. Here’s a project that uses the JNI to do filesystem monitoring on Windows and Lniux, but I don’t endorse it (I merely found it through google).