How to monitor directory / file changes on network share (Windows 2012 and up)

[Pascal]

Is there a way to get notified of changes to directories on a network share
respectively what is the best way to do so? Can be Windows only.

[Thaddy]

You can write a small windows service that broadcasts any change. For the change itself there is something in the jcl I believe. Otherwise I have KOL code that can be translated back.

[avra]

Is there a way to get notified of changes to directories on a network share

http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,35401.msg233845.html#msg233845
http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,21156.msg141779.html#msg141779
http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=21739.0
http://wiki.delphi-jedi.org/wiki/JVCL_Help:TJvChangeNotify
http://www.angusj.com/delphi/dirwatch.html
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3418562/delphi-notification-when-a-file-gets-updated
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/479770/file-folder-monitoring
http://torry.net/pages.php?id=252

[guest60499]

Some of those solutions seem to use a polling loop instead of the Windows API for filesystem notifications.

The DirWatch project seemed to be the easiest to understand.

[jamie]

find an exampl eof FIndFIrstChangeNotification inside a
thread.

 when the thread receives notice of change, you can then
post a user message to a different thread window, like the
main window for example. from there the message can be
handled like any other message handler in the form..