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john Wesley · Jul 21st, 2006, 8:47 AM

Well yes, as you mention there would be a few way's I would imagine. Thanks for bringing the FileSystemWatcher to my attention, as it happens I had started coding a routine to handle this but it is very 'Matchsticky' and 'Glued Together'.

Incase your curious Booooze I shall explain just a little.

I used a DriveListBox with a timer that refreshes every 2 seconds...

Then a ComboBox that grabs the number of drives in the DriveListBox also using a timer ticking slightly after the first...

The third item is a NumericUpDown that grabs the number contained in the ComboBox with a timer that ticks just under a second after timer number 2

If the NumericUpDown Value is ever smaller than the ComboBox Value then it searches the drives listed for the file I am looking for.

I know this is a real cowboy job but i was just playing around last night with a method of how to do this, I know there will be a lot of critisism for this but heyyy I can work with critisism.

Thanks for your info Booooze, I shall see how it pans out tonight with a FileSystemWatcher.

Jul 21st, 2006, 8:47 AM	#3
john Wesley Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: May 2006 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 119 Rep Power: 3	Well yes, as you mention there would be a few way's I would imagine. Thanks for bringing the FileSystemWatcher to my attention, as it happens I had started coding a routine to handle this but it is very 'Matchsticky' and 'Glued Together'. Incase your curious Booooze I shall explain just a little. I used a DriveListBox with a timer that refreshes every 2 seconds... Then a ComboBox that grabs the number of drives in the DriveListBox also using a timer ticking slightly after the first... The third item is a NumericUpDown that grabs the number contained in the ComboBox with a timer that ticks just under a second after timer number 2 If the NumericUpDown Value is ever smaller than the ComboBox Value then it searches the drives listed for the file I am looking for. I know this is a real cowboy job but i was just playing around last night with a method of how to do this, I know there will be a lot of critisism for this but heyyy I can work with critisism. Thanks for your info Booooze, I shall see how it pans out tonight with a FileSystemWatcher. __________________ Mona Lisa must of had the highway blues you can tell by the way she smiles..