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You can use Directory Monitor for the surveillance of certain directories and it will notify you of file changes, deletions, modifications, and new files in real-time. You can optionally execute an application when a change occurs. 

Get notified within milliseconds of file modifications, deletions, renames, new files, file access and inactivity on your file system or network shares.

Monitor local directories or network shares including hidden/private shares.
Options to detect all files in subdirectories and changes to file attributes.
Balloon notifications whenever an event is detected.
Include and exclude filter patterns per directory.
Available as a console application (PRO).
Able capture and process over 400 change events per second.
Accurately detect the user making changes (PRO)
Find out which users are making changes to directories or files in near real-time.

Report on the application process as well for local changes.
Users can be detected locally or network shares in your network.
Automatic configuration of the machine and directories to enable auditing.
Enforce the system audit policy to remain even if malicious users try to disable it.
 
Ultimate reliability with snapshots (PRO)
Enable snapshots to ensure changes can be detected while the network is down and even during power outages.

Fast snapshots of directory and file statistics.
Ensure you never miss any changes as well as user and process detection.
 
Windows background service monitoring (PRO)
Directory Monitor can be installed as a Windows service with multiple user configurations.

No need to be logged into the machine to continue monitoring changes.
Simple configuration and installation through the user interface.
Extremely low memory and CPU footprint when running in the background.
 
Keep your monitoring logs automatically
Use text logs to store your file system change events for later inspection.

Output contextual information based based on the event using macros.
Customize the output format (CSV for example) with only data you require.
Manage log file with built-in renaming to split the log into daily of monthly copies.
All monitoring configurations can log to the same file.
 
Execute scripts/applications when events occur
Optionally execute any script or application when one or more file system change events occur.

Pass in contextual parameters to your scripts based on the event information using macros.
Execute scripts or applications silently in the background (PRO).
Sequential execution option if scripts or applications cannot have more than one instance running.
Trigger based on number of events, delays or inactivity for batch processing.