Hi Alex,
AFAIK it could be done in .NET using File Watcher mechanism. Unfortunately, I don't know the specifics, so you may try to google on these keywords and also ask in .NET forum here assuming .NET is an option.
>My boss asked me to: 'find any files that have been written to a folder since yesterday that are bigger than 1 MB so I can go and yell at their owners to remove them'.
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>The idea is to check on a daily basis (or weekly) for big files that shouldn't be in our share folders. We have a mix of W2K, XP and W2K3 servers and workstations.
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>I've been looking at different programs for this like:
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>Jam-Software TreeSize -
http://www.jam-software.com/treesize/index.shtml>AvniTech Solutions ShowSize -
http://showsize.com/?did=tcw>
>But I have come to the realization that this should be somewhat easy to script:
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>Get list of files including ownership, written date, full path
>Parse the list to show files > 1 MB AND Date > yesterday's date
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>Problem is, I have no idea of how to tackle this... Do we have scripters around? If so, would you mind giving me some pointers? Is there a better forum/category for this?
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>Thanks in advance!
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