>I am running a VFP process on a server where other computers can remotly send a file to a given directory. I need to be able to respond quickly when the file has been sent. The file could be any name and size. I could set a timer to check every second or so that would run an adir() process to detect new files but that would mean that I would be constantly banging away at it. Is there any other way that would not take up as much server resources?
>TIA
>John.
To reduce the processing, you might consider separating processed and non-processed files. New, non-processed files go into a special directory; as soon as you detect and process them, you move them into the definitive directory.
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