Obtaining Directory Change Notifications
http://www.technixupdate.com/7-free-tools-to-monitor-folder-changes/ === he following tools are worth considering Osiris - http://osiris.shmoo.com/ samhain - http://la-samhna.de/samhain/index.html If you are open to commercial software, then you can have a look at Tripwire enterprise. The OSS version AFAIK can not be run on Windows. Tripwire enterprise - http://www.tripwire.com/products/enterprise/index.cfm http://serverfault.com/questions/30292/automatic-notification-of-new-or-changed-files-in-a-folder-or-share ====