Directory Watcher

Hi,

I am working on auto generation of reports and i am stuck right now. My aim is to check a network disk (let's say Z:\) once every day and if someone has put new folders (data) in that network drive then my script will analyse that new data.

The concept that i am unable to grasp right now is how to handle following 2 cases:

Z:\MainFolder\myDesiredFolder

and 2nd case

Z:\MinaFolder\SubFolder\Subfolder\Subfolder\myDesiredFolder

You are welcome with any kind of suggestions, tips or ideas.

Many thanks in advance.

\\Arsalan

Answer 1

[Oleg Komarov]

You can use recursive directory listing in the following way:

dirs = folderSizeTree('D:\');;

Then you can store results across days and use setdiff to find which new folder were added.

Oleg

[Muhammad Arsalan]

Thanks a lot for introducing me to recursive directory listing. Its works very well.

But in the next step i am having problems with setdiff.

I am doing following:

dirs1 = folderSizeTree('C:\Documents and Settings\');

here i get dirs1 struct1x1

then i add some folders at the location and again

folders1 = dirs1.name; % got 1x127 cell

dirs2 = folderSizeTree('C:\Documents and Settings\');

folders1 = dirs2.name; % got 9x129 cell

newfs = setdiff(folders1,folders2);

% got ===> Empty cell array: 0-by-1

% I have also tried to compare it after converting into char array

folders1 = char(folders1); % got long list of all folder paths and

folders2 = char(folders2); % compared 2 using different approaches

% haven't got what i am looking for. That is the new folder path.

Any hint??

Thanks in advance.

\\Arsalan

[Oleg Komarov]

I guess folders1 = dirs2.name; should be folders2 = dirs2.name;

But the question is how do you get a 9 by 129?

I awalys get a vector cell array of strings.

[Muhammad Arsalan]

Ya you are right. Sorry for my typing mistakes.

I need you help here.

I have

folders1 = dirs1.name; % got 1x127 cell

folders2 = dirs2.name; % got 1x129 cell

newfs = setdiff(folders1,folders2);

% got ===> Empty cell array: 0-by-1

So how can i look for new folders?

Thanks a lot.

[Walter Roberson]

Reverse the order of your arguments to setdiff:

newfs = setdiff(folders2,folders1);

[Muhammad Arsalan]

Thanks Walter, now its working fine.