Thanks for your ideas. I'll consider that.

Thanks Martin,

I reviewed the two prior requests, and the answer to the first one, which makes sense as a dialog is not an actual window per se, so max/min are typically not available. But I think there's a way to have our cake and eat it too here.

A good option I can think of is a new checkbox 'Log to new window', for which there's room without any sizing changes, on the dialog that tails the log in a new real window where it's sizing is unhindered, that has all the familiar semantics of a log being tailed in a window, is independent and can be killed without impacting the directory monitoring process, and it does not impact dialog layout in any way.

Possibly, if spawned as a separate process, it could stay visible even when the Directories window and the modal dialog are minimized to the system tray. When 'Stop' is pressed the popped out window, if it exists, would be terminated.

Thanks for thinking about this.

Regards,
Christopher

Thanks for your suggestion.

This request is being tracked already:
Issue 766 – Resizable Keep remote directory up to date... window
You can vote for it there.

First off, this is a fantastic feature I did not even know about until fairly recently, and now I keep it running constantly, saving all of my important CAD data off to a Linux box in real time. If my Windows box blows up, I have to the last saved file up to date on an SSD. I use two SSDs, with one offsite while the other is in use. It's a seriously awesome poor man's backup system, and it's not just daily, it's real time and I wish I knew of this feature many many years ago.

With that said, the only thing I can think of that would improve it a bit is a small user interface change that allows the user to drag the dialog wide enough to display very long paths without needing to scroll the list sideways to read them. Sizing it to show more vertically would also be fantastic. All of the other dialog elements could stay frozen where they are, kind of anchored top left, and when the dialog right side, bottom or bottom right corner is dragged bigger, just the path list box side and bottom follows it.

Hopefully that makes sense, if not let me know.

Thanks again for a great utility, I really appreciate it.

-Christopher