Step 1:
Copy a file into a folder and look for the details of this event in windows event viewer. For example, if copy a file named test - Copy.txt in C:\_QVW\PDFfolder\WatchThis folder, I found the following entry in the windows event viewer:
Make note of the event id (4656) and keyword (Audit Success) and that we are looking at security windows logs.
Step 2:
Go to the windows task scheduler and click on create task.
Step 2.1:
In general tab, name your trigger as My Folder Monitor as follows:
Step 2.2:
In triggers tab, click on New. In New Trigger window, set begin the task to On an event and select custom in settings, then click on New Event Filter button. In New Event Filter window, set the options as follows:
Note that we set the options according to what we have found in step 1.
Click OK and OK to finish this step.
Step 2.3:
In the action tabs, click on New. In the New Action window, set the options as follows:
Click OK and OK to finish this step.
Step 3:
Now, we need to tell the task which folder to monitor.
Step 3.1:
Go back to the windows event that we looked at in step 1. Open the event details by double clicking the event and take note of the details of the event. We can use ObjectName and ProcessName details which are under the EventData node to fine tune our scheduled task.
Step 3.2:
Go to triggers tab of the scheduled task and click on Edit and then edit event filter. Note that, it is opened in XML tab and one cannot go back to Filter tab. From now on, the event filter can only be modified in XML.
Modify the XML expression to restrict the scheduled task to trigger the action only for the files in C:\_QVW\PDFfolder\WatchThis folder, as follows:
Please note that > means > (i.e greater than).
Now if you copy & paste or create a file in C:\_QVW\PDFfolder\WatchThis folder, a pop-up message should appear in the screen.
Hope it works on your side as well.
