C#: Monitoring copied or moved files with FileSystemWatcher

Question

I have come across several \"solutions\" here and across the web but none seem to fit the bill.

What I am looking to do is have an app monitor a folder for new files (ei

Answer 1

I know, that what I am going to tell you does not look elegant. I had also to monitor files that arrive from different places, some of them were large and some small. We found out, that FileSystemWatcher is not reliable for this purpose. If you want to be 100% sure, you can check once in a while, using Timer class and its Elapsed event.