Using WD to monitor folders on a network drive, a file comes into fldr-1, starts a BAT (which starts a VBS) that will generate single page PDF's of the incoming PDF file, saving each PDF in fldr-2, monitored by WD to start a BAT to create thumbnails of each page.

Stange things happen : I drop a 30 page PDF file (1 file), WD starts the BAT that starts the VBS, the file is split into 30 PDF files, they are saved in fldr-2, now WD starts the BAT for fldr-2 right away, no problem. But it only starts the BAT ex. 26 times, allthough theres 30 files. In the history I can see that the event has been removed "The file \\..... does not exist any more, event removed", (needless to say, I can still access the dir using explorer), the strange thing is, that if I drop a new file into fldr-1, lets say a 4 page PDF, WD will fire events for all the files, also the 4 remaining from the last run.

Is there any way to make sure WD will keep a folder "cleaned/empty" so, that if any files exists, a event will be fired ??

Using (licensed) Version 4.041 on Windows 2000 Server, fileserver is a Windows2003 server, using same domain, logged on as domain administrator.

Thanks for any help you can provide!

Cheers,
Mark

Gert wrote on Feb 14^th, 2006 at 4:45am:

I'm not sure if it's the folder or file thats gone missing, but I guess it's the file, since it says "The file \\...." ??
I have tried to build a workflow, where each step is saving to a new folder:
1-pdfin
WD triggers BAT/VBS - splitting PDF to multiple files saved in
2-pdfsplit
WD triggers BAT/VBS - Converting each page to JPG saved in
3-pdf2jpg

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Gert wrote on Feb 14^th, 2006 at 4:45am:

I will try the various options, though I'm quite sure I did use the polling method.

Thanks for your quick reply!
Mark

The files that are "missed" are reported again as "The file \\..... does not exist any more, event removed"???
Does everything work correctly if you work on a local drive? It sounds a bit like your network (or the network drive) is not 100% stable.

Perhaps you can try to create a new task that monitors your network drive and copies the files to C:\Work\dir-1
Change your existing tasks to monitor the local directories (C:\Work\dir-1, C:\Work\dir-2 etcetera), and also output their results to those local directories.
Create a final task that copies the result files back to the network.

Gert

This is weird.

Can you please enable "write debug info" on this page and then "do a run" that doesn't detect all files.

Now you please send me
<task dir>\TASKNAME.config
<task dir>\TASKNAME\history.db
<task dir>\TASKNAME\wd.bat
and the .bat file that should process the files in C:\workflow\2-pdfsplit

replace <task dir> by the location of your task directoy - press CTRL+9 inside the Control Center
replace TASKNAME by the name of the task that monitors C:\workflow\2-pdfsplit

Please ZIP the above files!

Gert

Just wanted to add that Gert provided excellent service, way beyond what anyone could expect !!.

Thanks Gert.

Mark