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The activity will wait for one of the specified file events to occur and when that happens it will return the event type and file name that triggered the event. 

After the event is triggered the activity will try to wait for the changes to stabilize and the file to be released by the originating process.

This is a one time activity - meaning that the watcher will finish monitoring after the first event that matches the required criteria happens.

A custom activity that monitors a directory for specific file events like create, delete, exists, update and rename.

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Hi There, Is there any manual to use this activity ? (specially the question is for Stabilization Delays and Stabilization Retries)and what if we'd like to configure it to watch every 30 mins for example.(Is it possible through activity or we have to schedule in Orchestrator?)

Great job Ion! I agree with Majid. Some instructions would have been very useful.

Hi there, this is a great activity but is there any combination of events that will allow me to read the file if there is already one there and read a new incoming file if the directory is empty?

file watcher activity is not working on uipath..

In this moment i use "FileChangeTrigger" but I want to switch to your activity, does it serve as a monitoring trigger too?

It was very nice, but for me getting the error called

NU1101: Unable to find package Attended.Assistant.Window. No packages exist with this id in source(s): C:\................................\UiPath\app-20.2.0-beta0108\.\Packages, C:\...............................................\Packages, https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json, https://platform.uipath.com/eclatyqqjebv/EclatureTechnologyDefault/nuget/activities, Local, nuget.org

But i done advances excel also in same process, it was working fine...

why File watcher was not working. Can you suggest me what to do for this....

Say that multiple events took place at the same time.. like copying multiple files into the location.. Would be great if it can return a list of files that involved in the event for the trigger

Is it possible to set timeout for this activity. Like, I want to wait for 20 minutes for file to be delete and after this time throw an error (because I know, that over 20 minutes means something stuck) ?

Edit. I have no idea how I could simply miss that there is a timeout property..

 - Works fine.Even if multiple files are copied, only one file name can be acquired.The same applies to deletion. It is still better if you can get multiple file names.-Excel is not triggered just by saving. It seems necessary to close. At the beginning of the file name acquired, “~ $” is added.If this point is improved, it will be easy to use.


 - Good one.
it helped me with my use case...looking for new file creation and trigger based on it
cheers 


Good one.  Only drawback is it is unable to get complete list of files in case if i copied 2-3 files in to the directory, only first file is listed.  Additionally, the "$" in the excel file name is an issue too.  Would be great if these can be addressed as well.  

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