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Discussions tagged with file changes on WindowsForum.com cover monitoring folders for new or modified files, triggering programs when changes occur, and understanding how backup utilities handle changed files. Users ask about watching a folder and running a program immediately upon receiving new files, with suggestions including services or scheduled tasks. Others inquire whether Windows 10 Backup copies unchanged files or only changed ones, and whether it copies individual changed files or entire folders. Capturing live changes to a text file without reopening it is another topic, as is troubleshooting issues where Windows Explorer does not reflect file changes made by other programs. Problems with saving edited files across Homegroup computers and Windows 7 Backup backing up all files every time instead of only new or changed files are also covered.
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Windows 7 Activating a program when files in a folder change?
I would like to watch a certain folder and run a program ASAP when it receives any new files. It would seem to me that a service is the logical alert mechanism, but there doesn't seem to be an option in creating a service to trigger a program on that event. The program triggered can most...- Pemmons1
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- automation batch file efficiency event triggers file changes file monitoring program execution real time services windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Windows 10 Backup
Can anyone tell me for sure, with Windows 10 Backup, if I set it to copy a folder (or single files) each night, if nothing has changed in that folder (or file) does Backup still copy it? I want to be sure that copies to a cloud server are minimized. Edit: Also, if a single file in a folder has...- IanBrooke
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- backup cloud solutions data management data security file changes file synchronization file transfer incremental backup windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Capturing file changes
Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to capture live changes of a standard text file without closing the document and re-opening it using a 3rd party program etc. I am trying to capture output from an executable (that's not mine), but I know that it outputs to a standard text file that I am...- GTXPlayer
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- data capture executable output file changes live monitoring real time text file third party windows tools
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Windows 7 Difficulty Using 'Save As' to Edit Shared Files Between Homegroup Computers
Hello Win 7 x64 With 2 Win 7 machines I am on a homegroup and am sharing files. problem- when I make a chage in my laptop that I want to take effect in the pc, I am having trouble with the save as function. I want to use the laptop to change an existing file in the pc Why can I not just...- Peterr
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- document editing file access file changes file sharing homegroup laptop network save windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Networking
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Windows 7 Weird Windows 7 Problem please help!
Ok, Problem: Windows explorer does not seem to update changes I've made to a file. eg. image 1 show the folder viewed through a program and image 2 is viewed though windows explorer. Make sense? view images attached. My pc spec: If it matters Window 7 ultimate 64-bit Celeron(R)dual core...- bergiedrumma
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- 64-bit celeron explorer file changes help issues pc specs ram ultimate windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Software
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Windows 7 Windows 7 Backup Utility backes up every file, every time
I used to use Windows Vista backup, and it wasn't perfect but it got the job done for me. So now I've set up Windows 7 Backup to run once a week to an external hdd on a home server I have set up on my local network. So anyway, that all went well and it backed up the roughly 55 gigs I was...- Sphagnum
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- backup data management external drive file changes library backup network storage scheduled backup storage windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Software
