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saurav
saurav

Reputation: 5926

Tracking file system changes in Windows and Mac

I have an file system based application written in Java both on Windows and Mac OS.

My requirement is to track the changes made to files/folders under a directory. Operations to track are normal file level operations like CRUD ones. when my application runs i can run a watch service from java nio and can track the changes (though detecting rename is still a problem in watch service ).

My problem comes when i have to detect changes when the application is not running. i have read that the file backup software do it through change journal feature of Windows NTFS.

My questions are as follows

(a) Are change journal apis available in . NET managed code of c# (or even in Java) or only availalbe through c++ as shown in the examples? (b) Is change jounrnal or equivalent available in HFS plus (mac os) ? if yes, are there apis available (any language)? (c ) Is there any better way to track the changes done in file system when the application is not running ?

cheers,

Saurav

Upvotes: 2

Views: 286

Answers (1)

pablo
pablo

Reputation: 6402

Read this:

Keeping an eye in the NTFS Change Journal

Upvotes: 1

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