How Can I Automatically Run a Script Any Time a File is Added to a Folder?

re: How Can I Automatically Run a Script Any Time a File is Added to a Folder?

Ozi — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:16:19 GMT

Hey is it possible to check the file being added to a drive as a whole, Rather then giving c:////Scripts can we give C:/ just?

re: How Can I Automatically Run a Script Any Time a File is Added to a Folder?

jrv — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:42:16 GMT

@paris

Control-C

re: How Can I Automatically Run a Script Any Time a File is Added to a Folder?

JV — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:23:47 GMT

@paris

Control-C

re: How Can I Automatically Run a Script Any Time a File is Added to a Folder?

paris — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:53:00 GMT

We can stop the script using Windows Task Manager and looking for wscript.exe in the Processes, but how would we do that using WMI and scripting?

re: How Can I Automatically Run a Script Any Time a File is Added to a Folder?

Chris — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:29:19 GMT

Great script but is it possible to make it monitor the %USERPROFILE% folder? For instance C:\users\username\temp

re: How Can I Automatically Run a Script Any Time a File is Added to a Folder?

Ed Wilson — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:51:45 GMT

@DaveAef This article is written using VBScript and not using Windows PowerShell. The & character, which is concatenation in VBScript is the invocation operator in PowerShell. The space underscore is line continuation in VBScript. As it turns out, this week, I wrote about this topic. Go to the archives, and look at the Hey Scripting Guy articles for the week of July 16, 2012. You will see where I modify this query and use it in Windows PowerShell.

re: How Can I Automatically Run a Script Any Time a File is Added to a Folder?

DaveAef — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:40:33 GMT

Hi,

I tried the following in Powershell (execute privilege, etc. is OK):

get-WmiObject -query "SELECT * FROM __InstanceCreationEvent WITHIN 10 WHERE " _

& "Targetinstance ISA 'CIM_DirectoryContainsFile' and " _

& "TargetInstance.GroupComponent= " _

& "'Win32_Directory.Name=""c:\\\\temp""'"

The only change I made was to the target directory name. The *&"s did not work. I exchanged the "&"'s for "+"'s and got:

Get-WmiObject : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument '+'

I removed the "+" and left PS to do its own concatenation and got:

Get-WmiObject : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'Targetinstance ISA 'CIM_DirectoryContainsFile' and '.

Any suggestions? Am I going down the wrong path? Any help greatly appreciated.

DaveAef

re: How Can I Automatically Run a Script Any Time a File is Added to a Folder?

ed wilson — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:56:40 GMT

@Ittechstop you do not want to use this on a permanent basis ... this is a temporary event. You can change it to be a permanent event and then it would do exactly what you want. Look at this collection of articles that will explain the differences between temporary and permanent WMI events: http://aka.ms/InsideWMIEvents

re: How Can I Automatically Run a Script Any Time a File is Added to a Folder?

Ed Wilson — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:53:12 GMT

@Mini you will change the script to monitor for changes to the directory

re: How Can I Automatically Run a Script Any Time a File is Added to a Folder?

ittechstop — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 04:47:38 GMT

Is it possible to monitor a folder on a remote machine (in a workgroup so I have to pass the login info) with this script and move the file to the local machine when a file gets created?