You may know that Windows constantly changes, renames, modifies and removes certain files while you perform tasks using any User or System utility. It’s certainly impossible to keep track of all the files that are being crearted, changed, deleted from the system. However, if you want to monitor the files for changes in a particular folder, check out the previously covered Folder Monitor (reviewed here in my blog....), Directory Monitor (reviewed here in my blog......) and Watch 4 Folder (reviewed here in my blog.....). File monitoring applications help users view the changes made to the specified set of files without having to manually check each file’s property sheet. TheFolderSpy is a simple, yet powerful folder monitoring application that allows you to monitor multiple folders for changes, and notifies you whenever it detects changes in files’ contents/attributes. Using the application, you can easily monitor files to check whether it’s been renamed, modified or even deleted from a specified folder, or not. Apart from providing you with an on screen notification, it also allows you to automatically send information about the change to a user-specified email address. More on TheFolderSpy after the break.
Upon first start, you need to configure the application for monitoring the required folders. From the Setup window, you can Add Item, Edit, Remove, Save Items list and Setup Email. When you add the folders, it shows information like File Type to be monitored, current state, detect change types etc.
The Add Item window has options to add the folder to be monitored, monitor the sub-folders, enter specific file types to be monitored, execute a particular app when a change is detected, choose the types of changes detected, As stated earlier, it also lets you send email to specified recipient when it detects a change in folders. Here, you can enable Send email if change detected option to send the file change notification via email as soon as it detects one.
Once everything is set up, click Close to save the settings and start monitoring the selected folders. The changes will be displayed in the main window of the application. If you have selected the email option, an email will be sent to specified email address each time a change is detected.
TheFolderSpy is a portable application that works on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
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