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Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Best method to track folder size growth over time? Ask Question. Asked 11 years, 11 months ago. Active 6 years, 9 months ago. Viewed 33k times. Improve this question. Aszurom Aszurom 2 2 gold badges 8 8 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. JMan JMan 3 3 bronze badges. I'll call this the accepted answer, because this software does exactly what I asked. Costs a bit, but gets it done. View all my tips. Back To Top Thanks for reading, Jeff.

Hi Svetlana, Below is the screenshot of the error i am gettting while creating the job using the below script. Hi Rajeev Can you post the exact error in the comments? Thanks, Svetlana. Thanks, Rajeev. Great article. Concise, yet well explained. Worked first time. Very interesting and useful. Thanks for this post. Svetlana, thanks for the article! Hi, The overhead is the same as you would have with any other alerts. We get probably 1 alert in 2 weeks for databases sometimes even less frequent.

Hi Svetlana, Thank you for the great tip. Hi Svetlana, thx for your quick respone. I figured it out. By the way great articel! Hi Lsuse Do you try to start the job manually? I'm testing this out but the agent job returns a error Hi Svetlana, Much appreciated.

Hi Svetlana, Great article, I will use these script in test environment!!! The folder monitoring options also offer include and exclude wildcard patterns, logging to a text file, and executing a file on an event. Just about everything else there is disabled. Directory Monitor has a portable, installer, and Chocolatey version available for download. Download Directory Monitor.

Folder Monitor is another portable tool that can monitor file and folder events for creating, changing, renaming, and deleting. Windows 7 users will need. NET Framework 4. Multiple folders can be added to the window.

Each watched folder has its own options. Other functions are found in the Options in the tray icon context menu. These are global and will affect all monitored folders. From this window, you can change the visual notification to visual popup window or balloon, and add a sound notification using a system or custom sound.

Folder Monitor also supports a few command line arguments that are found in the About window. Download Folder Monitor. I use Tweakeze and so far so good! I liked that it runs on the background keeping things in check. Disk Pulse is excellent. Watch 4 Folder got almost nothing writing on the hdd, TheFolderSpy got so much that it craches all the time. Regarding File Alert Monitor, I am not sure that qualifies as a free program because if you read the terms of service, it states you have license to use this software if you have purchased other software from the company.

If you are a stickler for licensing, you may want to look at other products. It does work great though. Therefore, non license holders are not breaking the terms of the license. Yes, awesome review! Any idea of which programs are compatible with Apple? Are these kinds of collaborative monitoring processes supported by these programs? I am trying to track changes in a folder with music files.

From time to time there are some changes in the files that are bothering me like date modified, metadata info or even all the bytes in the file are changed. I think it is related to the player.

Not an IT pro? Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows PowerShell. Sign in to vote. Hello everyone, We have a database running with a transaction log that sometimes has exceptionally growth. I'm looking for a script that will monitor the log file size increase over time.