rohit wrote: > hi > i want to detect all file change operations(rename,delete,create....) > on ALL THE DRIVES of the hard disk > using the method ReadDirectoryChanges API , i.e program no. 3 in the > webpage > http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/win32_how_do_i/watch_directory_for_changes.html > . > Please suggest some modification to the program so that i can detect > changes to ALL the drives > (to detect changes on c:\ set > path_to_watch = "." to "c:\\" but this works for only one drive
Well, to answer the question specifically: since the Windows filesstem has no concept of a "root" above the drive letters, the simplest thing to do is to kick off a thread or a subprocess or what-have-you for each drive letter. The *shell* has the concept of a "My Computer" which notionally sits above the various drives, but since it isn't itself a drive and since I assume you're only interested in local drives anyway and not the rest of the shell-y stuff which sits underneath it, you'd end up querying for local drives and going the same path in any case. TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
