filesystemwatcher and determining when it is safe to work on the directory

[topher]

When using filesystemwatcher to keep an eye on a directory to see if
there are any files, how will I know when it is safe to work on the
files in a directory? In other words, how will I know that no more
files are being written and that the directory is static?

-topher

 

[Guest]

You cant know that nobody is writing a file exactly. You could check to see
whether there are any open handles to the directory or files in the
directory. I dont know how to do this exactly but if I had to, I would look
at the source code to the ForceDelete tool that floats around the web and
this finds file handles and closes them with WinAPI calls.

HTH