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Thread ID: 89886	2008-05-15 04:23:00	Windows Programming Project - Help wanted	nz_liam (845)	Press F1

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669651	2008-05-15 04:23:00	Hi, I’m looking for someone to write a windows service in C++ / VB .net / whatever. In a nut shell it monitors a series of folders and when a file arrives it copies it to another corresponding folder. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The basic setup is as follows, there is a folder C:\FTP, which contains user home directories where they upload files, e.g. C:\FTP\sam C:\FTP\bob etc, these folders will change on a day to day basis, some will be deleted, some will be added, so each time the service looks for changes it will have to scan all folders under C:\FTP. Inside these sub-folders (e.g. C:\FTP\sam), will be the files I want to move, e.g. C:\FTP\sam\file1.zip C:\FTP\sam\file2.zip, so the service will need to be able to scan for all files that match *.zip. I want to move the files to a corresponding sub-folder inside C:\ARCHIVE, so all .zip files from C:\FTP\sam will be moved to C:\ARCHIVE\sam, likewise .zip files from C:\FTP\xyz123 will be moved to C:\ARCHIVE\xyz123. I would like to have a configuration file for the service, ini / xml / whatever, where you can set the source folder to scan (e.g. C:\FTP), the destination folder to move the file to (e.g. C:\ARCHIVE), the type of file (e.g. *.zip/*.whatever), and the scan frequency (e.g. 30s, 60s, 240s). It would also be good to have a log file of sorts, where a record of each move operation is written, e.g.; 15/05/2008 17:00:12 moved C:\FTP\sam\file37.zip to C:\ARCHIVE\sam\file37.zip 15/05/2008 17:03:59 moved C:\FTP\bob\file93.zip to C:\ARCHIVE\bob\file93.zip 16/05/2008 08:30:12 moved C:\FTP\carl\file311.zip to C:\ARCHIVE\carl\file311.zip In terms of compensation, this is a small project (hopefully), and I was planning to get it done on a small budget; however I don’t expect something for nothing, so I’m more than happy to compensate you for your time, and potentially there may be more (similar) work in the future. I guess I’m really looking for a computer science student with some free time (or similar), who’s interested in this sort of thing. ----------------------------------------------------------------- So if you’re interested please PM me. Cheers Liam	nz_liam (845)
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