Gustav Brock
gustav at cactus.dk
Fri Nov 28 03:37:27 CST 2003
Hi Erwin > NTFS has the posibilty to report to an app when a new file is added or > changed in a folder. > So instead of screening a folder for new files app, its rather the OS > that reports to the app that new or changed files are in a certain > folder. > Has anyone tried to use this in Access? > I supose this is some kind of an API call. > This is very true for WXP don't not for W2K. Yes, Jürgen Welz helped me with this for Win2000 but it appears to only work reliably for changes "now and then", not for busy traffic. Look up the archive on these: 2002-02-19: On Timer Events and a repost/quote 2002-04-23: Monitoring Directories If you can achieve better results I would be most interested in learning about it. /gustav