knowing when file has been totally transferred

17 Apr 2006 9:43 AM

chad

let's say I'm transferring a large file like 100MB over to a folder.

The program detects when the file arrives. However, I can't
figure out how to know when the file is totally transferred over.

One unsuccessful method is to...

dim fi as new fileinfo(newfile)

fi.length returns the supposed size of the file. But it correctly
reports the final size of the file the moment transferring
starts. So that's no help at all.

I want to know what the file is totally transferred to the folder
so I can then begin to work on it. Any ideas?

17 Apr 2006 10:56 AM

Michel Posseth [MCP]

Well i would do the following

i would use a filesystem watcher to detect the arrival of the file (
Created event ) this event will fire as soon as the transfer starts
however it will also provide us the location and name of the file so we can
wait in a loop untill we can get exclusive access to the file
when this is possible we know that the file is completely transfered

regards

Michel Posseth [MCP]

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"chad" <c***@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
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> let's say I'm transferring a large file like 100MB over to a folder.
>
> The program detects when the file arrives. However, I can't
> figure out how to know when the file is totally transferred over.
>
> One unsuccessful method is to...
>
> dim fi as new fileinfo(newfile)
>
> fi.length returns the supposed size of the file. But it correctly
> reports the final size of the file the moment transferring
> starts. So that's no help at all.
>
> I want to know what the file is totally transferred to the folder
> so I can then begin to work on it. Any ideas?
>
>
>

17 Apr 2006 11:13 AM

chad

uhm..... what method do you use when you wanna find out if we get exclusive
access to the file?

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"Michel Posseth [MCP]" wrote:

> Well i would do the following
>
> i would use a filesystem watcher to detect the arrival of the file (
> Created event ) this event will fire as soon as the transfer starts
> however it will also provide us the location and name of the file so we can
> wait in a loop untill we can get exclusive access to the file
> when this is possible we know that the file is completely transfered
>
> regards
>
> Michel Posseth [MCP]
>
>
>
> "chad" <c***@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
> news:E09788E6-8E4F-4C3B-BA31-5FB1608859C5@microsoft.com...
> > let's say I'm transferring a large file like 100MB over to a folder.
> >
> > The program detects when the file arrives. However, I can't
> > figure out how to know when the file is totally transferred over.
> >
> > One unsuccessful method is to...
> >
> > dim fi as new fileinfo(newfile)
> >
> > fi.length returns the supposed size of the file. But it correctly
> > reports the final size of the file the moment transferring
> > starts. So that's no help at all.
> >
> > I want to know what the file is totally transferred to the folder
> > so I can then begin to work on it. Any ideas?
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>

17 Apr 2006 3:52 PM

Michel Posseth [MCP]

open the file in a try catch block and use
FileShare.None as the share parameter to a FileStream object

you might wrap this in a nice function

regards

Michel Posseth [MCP]

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"chad" <c***@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
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> uhm..... what method do you use when you wanna find out if we get
> exclusive
> access to the file?
>
> "Michel Posseth [MCP]" wrote:
>
>> Well i would do the following
>>
>> i would use a filesystem watcher to detect the arrival of the file (
>> Created event ) this event will fire as soon as the transfer starts
>> however it will also provide us the location and name of the file so we
>> can
>> wait in a loop untill we can get exclusive access to the file
>> when this is possible we know that the file is completely transfered
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Michel Posseth [MCP]
>>
>>
>>
>> "chad" <c***@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
>> news:E09788E6-8E4F-4C3B-BA31-5FB1608859C5@microsoft.com...
>> > let's say I'm transferring a large file like 100MB over to a folder.
>> >
>> > The program detects when the file arrives. However, I can't
>> > figure out how to know when the file is totally transferred over.
>> >
>> > One unsuccessful method is to...
>> >
>> > dim fi as new fileinfo(newfile)
>> >
>> > fi.length returns the supposed size of the file. But it correctly
>> > reports the final size of the file the moment transferring
>> > starts. So that's no help at all.
>> >
>> > I want to know what the file is totally transferred to the folder
>> > so I can then begin to work on it. Any ideas?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>

18 Apr 2006 6:00 PM

Chris Dunaway

Another option is to save the file using a temporary name and then
rename it to the final destination name. That way the
FileSystemWatcher would key on the rename event and you would catch the
file after it was completely transferred.

19 Apr 2006 1:19 AM

chad

thanks guys. that helped a lot :-)

14 Jan 2007 11:28 PM

dan m

I am little confused on when and how to rename the originial file and still
get the entire download file. I have filesystemwatcher running on my server.
If I fire the create event of the watcher don't i still have only a partial
downloaded file? Does the rename event only fire when the file is completely
downloaded?

Thanks for any help.
Dan
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"Chris Dunaway" wrote:

> Another option is to save the file using a temporary name and then
> rename it to the final destination name. That way the
> FileSystemWatcher would key on the rename event and you would catch the
> file after it was completely transferred.
>
>

15 Jan 2007 12:17 AM

Stephany Young

There may be others but one sure-fire way to determine if a file is
available for use is to attempt to open it for exclusive access.

If the attempt fails then it is NOT available.

If the attempt succeeds then it IS available.

The sort of logic you need to do this is (pseudo-code):

Catch the 'Create' event from FileSystemWatcher

While True
    Try
      Attempt to open the file for exclusive use
      ....
      If the logic gets to here then it succeeded so do whatever you want to
do with the file
      ....
      Exit While
    Catch ex As Exception
      Check the exception
      If it is not the exception that tells us that the file is not
available then deal with it
        ....
        Exit While
      End If
      If the logic gets to here then the file is not available so allow the
loop to continue
    End Try
End While

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"dan m" <dan m@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am little confused on when and how to rename the originial file and still
> get the entire download file. I have filesystemwatcher running on my
> server.
> If I fire the create event of the watcher don't i still have only a
> partial
> downloaded file? Does the rename event only fire when the file is
> completely
> downloaded?
>
> Thanks for any help.
> Dan
> "Chris Dunaway" wrote:
>
>> Another option is to save the file using a temporary name and then
>> rename it to the final destination name. That way the
>> FileSystemWatcher would key on the rename event and you would catch the
>> file after it was completely transferred.
>>
>>

15 Jan 2007 5:03 PM

William LaMartin

I have used the code below to determine when a file upload is finished
before making a thumbnail of the file. It has always worked for me. It
appears that the file.exists does not equal to true until the file has been
totally uploaded.

Dim fi As New System.IO.FileInfo(Server.MapPath(".") & "\Photos\" &
FileUpload1.FileName)
            Do While fi.Exists = False
                'do nothing
            Loop

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"dan m" <dan m@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am little confused on when and how to rename the originial file and still
> get the entire download file. I have filesystemwatcher running on my
> server.
> If I fire the create event of the watcher don't i still have only a
> partial
> downloaded file? Does the rename event only fire when the file is
> completely
> downloaded?
>
> Thanks for any help.
> Dan
> "Chris Dunaway" wrote:
>
>> Another option is to save the file using a temporary name and then
>> rename it to the final destination name. That way the
>> FileSystemWatcher would key on the rename event and you would catch the
>> file after it was completely transferred.
>>
>>