THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE APPLIES TO:
- EFT Server version 5.1.1 and later
- EFT v4.x to v7.4.x stores advanced properties in the registry.
- EFT v8.x stores Advanced Properties in a JSON file.
- When you upgrade from EFT v7.4.x to EFT v8, the non-default settings that you have defined in the registry will be added to the Advanced Properties file during upgrade. (Default settings are part of the EFT configuration files.)
Please refer to the EFT help for a spreadsheet of advanced properties for your version of EFT.
DISCUSSION
In EFT Server version 5.1.1 and later, you can create/edit a registry key to set the "dwFilter" parameter that is passed into the function "ReadDirectoryChangesW()", which is the core of the Folder Monitor feature.
On 32-bit systems:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GlobalSCAPE Inc.\EFT Server 4.0\EventRules]
On 64-bit systems:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\GlobalSCAPE Inc.\EFT Server 4.0\EventRules]
"FolderMonitorFilterValue"=dword:0000007D
The default value is the same legacy value that had been present since the initial delivery of the feature:
FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_FILE_NAME | FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_ATTRIBUTES | FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_SIZE | FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_CREATION | FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_LAST_WRITE | FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_LAST_ACCESS
(This is a value of 0x7D)
This is useful to override to "quiet" the folder monitor event dispatching; for example, if only looking for NEW files added to the folder, then exclude the "FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_FILE_NAME | FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_ATTRIBUTES | FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_LAST_ACCESS" set.