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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bill Dotson" data-source="post: 122004" data-attributes="member: 5659">If the target of this is a Windows machine, you can accomplish this at the OS level. Somewhere in the Windows APIs is a procedure that will notify a callback procedure of a change in a folder (file added, deleted, modified, etc.). It's been a while since I've done any straight Windows programming, so I don't recall the exact name of the Windows procedure, but it shouldn't be hard to find, or very difficult to write the callback procedure in C. The beauty of this is that it avoids constantly polling a folder, which can be both network and disk intensive, unless you're very careful about the frequency and duration of your polling. You should consider adding the specifics of your environment to your signature, as that will help get you help better suited to your environment. For example, if you're in a Unix or iSeries shop, this suggestion may not even be an option.</blockquote>