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WinAutomation allows you to monitor the files in a folder (and its subfolders if you choose to) and fire a Manage the delays
job if a file is created, modified or deleted. You can add a "File Monitor Trigger" in a job, if you right click between keystrokes
on it, select "Edit Triggers", then select to "Add New Trigger" and finally add the "File Monitor Trigger". How do I import the
jobs that I created in
If you have tried to monitor network folders through this action, you have surely noticed that the trigger
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seems not to work:
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The reason for that, is that the WinAutomation’s core component that is responsible for the proper in file paths
monitoring of folders (hence the proper execution of the jobs that have a File Monitor trigger), the Monitor Network
"WinAutomation's service", is run by default with a local system account (which does not have access to Folders
the network). If you want to monitor a network folder, you will have to specify the service to run with a
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network account so that it will be able to read from network locations. To do that:
- Start - Run - services.msc
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- Right click on “WinAutomation Service” - Properties
- Log On tab
- Specify an account to log on as.
Make sure that the account that you will specify, has access to the network directories that you need to
monitor.
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