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  1. Monitor Past Events

    able to monitor past events, example to enter yesterday date and time?

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    declined  ·  AdminWerner van Deventer (CEO / Founder, DevEnterprise.NET) responded

    This is technically not possible.

    If three files were added, and the same three files removed, there will be no record of those files ever existing. If the directory was not being monitored at the time then those events are lost.

    Windows will not keep track of all changes across file system, unless you previous had Windows auditing enabled on the entire hard disk (which would grind your system to a halt) there is no way to determine changes that occurred in the past without an active monitoring solution.

  2. Tasks execution with dependencies

    Assuming I have 2 or more directory to monitor, but the task setup on these directories have dependencies; this is especially important, where 2 or more tasks are not-allow to execute concurrently (whereby may cause conflict in job result).

    Without this feature, we have to developed some program either using mutex or some flag files to prevent concurrent execution; Is it possible to setup dependencies between directories?

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    declined  ·  AdminWerner van Deventer (CEO / Founder, DevEnterprise.NET) responded

    Queuing tasks are not possible, each directory monitors and executes tasks in isolation.

    This feature would introduce significant complexity when it should not be the application’s responsibility to manage workflow.

    If you require synchronization with scripts and tasks you are executing then you need to implement these
    yourself as you mentioned. Queuing and priority management is out of scope of what Directory Monitor is intended for.

  3. More granularity in file names

    1. log the full command if the execution fails, to help diagnose the problem.

    2. Allow %year% %month% %day% %hour% %minute% %second% to be able to build up custom timestamps in output files.

    3. Add %suffix% that would return ".pdf" if filename is "somefile.pdf".

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    declined  ·  AdminWerner van Deventer (CEO / Founder, DevEnterprise.NET) responded

    Since these features relate to scripting, all these additional macros can already be extracted with little effort from any scripting language. These additional macro options can be added into the next major version and will not be included in DM2.

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