The Watch 4 Folder application was developed to be a simple, small and portable tool to monitor folders and files activities. You can set a monitoring process with just 4 simple quick steps and then minimize the tool to the system tray.

It can monitor 15 different types of events, execute a program or batch file, or show a popup message in case of an event. it is possible to write to a text log file and to watch a live log running.

There are four steps To start a monitoring process:
1. Select from the top shell list view the folder or the device you want to monitor, if you want to monitor sub folders also, check the "Watch sub folders" checkbox.

2. Select the monitoring events you want to monitor, the available monitoring events are:
- File create
- File Delete
- File Change
- File Rename
- Association Change
- Free Space change
- Folder Create
- Folder Delete
- Folder Rename
- Folder Change
- Media Insert
- Media Remove

A single event can create several Monitoring events, for example selecting File Change event and File Rename event will create two events in case of file rename, because the file was renamed but also changed. So it is better to select specific events or general event but not both.

3. Select the actions on event, this is an optional step, here you can select the actions to take in case of an event, the available actions are:
- Execute a program or batch file when event occurs, you should browse and select or enter the full path to the executable or batch file.
- Write to a log file will automatically write a line to the log file when event occurs, you have to browse and create or enter the full path and file name for the log file, if the file doesn't exists it will be created, if the file exists the new lines will append to the end of the existing file, the log file is in a text format (.txt).
- Popup a message will pop up a message to the desktop when event occurs.

4. The last step is to click Start Monitoring, at this point you can watch the live log running at the bottom of the application or you can click on the "Tray" button to minimize the monitor to the system tray.

A click on the Watch 4 Folder icon on the system tray will restore the application to the desktop. If you didn't select to write to a log file and you still want to save the log, just select all the text from the Live Watch window, copy and paste to where you want.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· New command line parameter to start WF4 minimized to the system tray.
· Can use the changed shell object as an argument for the executed program, batch or script.
· Program to execute support now also *.cmd and *.vbs
· Can close the monitor while running.
· More info in the live log.
· Some minor improvements
· Add a user guide in english (rtf and pdf formats).