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by Supraz01
Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:39 pm
Forum: General Support
Topic: DirectoryWatcher - Mirror structure to another disk.
Replies: 10
Views: 2601

Re: DirectoryWatcher - Mirror structure to another disk.

Sorry Jinx I was not familiar with how robocopy worked. I assumed it would try to copy everything every time it was ran, not just the new/changed files. I will take a look at this option. Thank you.

Well, running "robocopy c:\source d:\target" is not that hard. It's an app made in C/C++ of 125kb ...
by Supraz01
Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:08 pm
Forum: General Support
Topic: DirectoryWatcher - Mirror structure to another disk.
Replies: 10
Views: 2601

Re: DirectoryWatcher - Mirror structure to another disk.

I dont have EG doing much. My setup only has three macros. Two use the DirectoryWatcher.Create event that launches an action(Initiates EMM which scrapes a new movie), then updates XBMC video Library. This is triggered by a manual move that I do myself. Then my only other macro uses DirectoryWatcher ...
by Supraz01
Fri Dec 10, 2010 6:55 pm
Forum: General Support
Topic: DirectoryWatcher - Mirror structure to another disk.
Replies: 10
Views: 2601

Re: DirectoryWatcher - Mirror structure to another disk.

Would it be possible for you to show me an example of how i would do this? I dont know python but can surely manipulate a sample.

You should be able to do this in a python script. You can trigger the script from the event, then have the script grab the file name/location from the event payload ...
by Supraz01
Fri Dec 10, 2010 2:21 pm
Forum: General Support
Topic: DirectoryWatcher - Mirror structure to another disk.
Replies: 10
Views: 2601

Re: DirectoryWatcher - Mirror structure to another disk.

Hmmm... The tree is already synced. My issue is more when a new episode comes out therenamer knows to put the episode in the c:\tv shows\<show>\<season>\ folder. After this is done i would like to copy that file to another drive with the same path, d:\tv shows\<show>\<season>\. Is this not possible ...
by Supraz01
Thu Dec 09, 2010 3:05 pm
Forum: General Support
Topic: DirectoryWatcher - Mirror structure to another disk.
Replies: 10
Views: 2601

Re: DirectoryWatcher - Mirror structure to another disk.

How do I use that in conjuction with EventGhost though? Are you talking about triggering a start application event, that will launch a batch file? If I have event ghost set to use DirectoryWatcher.Update and it sees that ive added a new folder 'test' is it possible to then put that string into the ...
by Supraz01
Wed Dec 08, 2010 10:43 pm
Forum: General Support
Topic: DirectoryWatcher - Mirror structure to another disk.
Replies: 10
Views: 2601

DirectoryWatcher - Mirror structure to another disk.

I use EventGhost to automate my HTPC currently and everything works great. I have EventGhost watching for new files in a directory, then it launches therenamer, renaming my files and moving them to another location. Once this file hits the new location (d:\tv shows\show\season\file) I would like ...