I have a service with a filesystemwatcher developed with VS 2003 VB. It was
moved to a server running STD Server 2003 SP2 in February 2008. The
filesystemwatcher stopped triggering when files were dropped into the
folder.This was brought to my attention today and I see where this began in
October 2008. The file are about 450K in size. Again, this servive ran
flawlessly on this server for over 6months and appears to stop working last
October. I, from Windows Explorer, drop these files into the folder and
nothing happens.

I tried to copy via the command line and it appears the fsw is still not
triggering.

"Michael D. Ober" <obermd.@.alum.mit.edu.nospam.> wrote in message
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> "Prefers Golfing" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>I have a service with a filesystemwatcher developed with VS 2003 VB. It
>>was moved to a server running STD Server 2003 SP2 in February 2008. The
>>filesystemwatcher stopped triggering when files were dropped into the
>>folder.This was brought to my attention today and I see where this began
>>in October 2008. The file are about 450K in size. Again, this servive ran
>>flawlessly on this server for over 6months and appears to stop working
>>last October. I, from Windows Explorer, drop these files into the folder
>>and nothing happens.
>>
>>
>
> If you copy the files into the folder from a command line, does the folder
> view update? It also uses the underlying File Notification API.
>
> Mike Ober.
>
>

Hello Prefers,

> I have a service with a filesystemwatcher developed with VS 2003 VB.
> It was moved to a server running STD Server 2003 SP2 in February 2008.
> The filesystemwatcher stopped triggering when files were dropped into
> the folder.This was brought to my attention today and I see where this
> began in October 2008. The file are about 450K in size. Again, this
> servive ran flawlessly on this server for over 6months and appears to
> stop working last October. I, from Windows Explorer, drop these files
> into the folder and nothing happens.

Can you provide the code which initializes the file system wachter, and the
code that handles the event you're trying to capture?

Without it we'd just be guessing and guessing...

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Jesse Houwing
jesse.houwing at sogeti.nl