Tracking changes made to a folder in Delphi

Question

I need to writing a Delphi program which will monitor a folder for changes (add, update, rename and removal of files).

I have seen suggestions to use theTShellChangeNotifier. Is this the correct solution for this problem? How should I use it?

Answer 1

This question might help. mghie's answer shows how to properly use ReadDirectoryChangesW.

Answer 2

I think this article will help you: Monitoring System Shell Changes using Delphi

Basically it analyzes the TShellChangeNotifier, discards it and then goes for a TSHChangeNotify which is basically a wrapper for the SHChangeNotify windows api function.