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shahriar
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Retrieving LastReadTime from files list

2019-11-26 15:21

Hi everybody,
I want to get LastReadTime of every file in remote file directory. how can i do it ?

thx.

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Re: Retrieving LastReadTime from files list

2019-11-29

WinSCP API does not provide that information.
And the question is whether your server does at all. What protocol are you using?

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shahriar
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Re: Retrieving LastReadTime from files list

2019-11-29 23:48

martin wrote:

WinSCP API does not provide that information.
And the question is whether your server does at all. What protocol are you using?

I Use SFTP Protocol .

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martin◆ Site Admin

Re: Retrieving LastReadTime from files list

2019-12-03

SFTP servers usually provide the last access time. But WinSCP does not expose that information in its API.

What do you need it for?

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shahriar

2019-12-12 20:17

One of my applications is making some files and upload them into a FTP folder everyday at a certain time. and another app is reading them for internal use.
I want to know when the files will be read by the other app.

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martin◆ Site Admin

2019-12-13

Using the last access time for that does not look like a reliable approach.

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shahriar

2019-12-13 20:28

So what can I do ? :(

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martin◆ Site Admin
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2019-12-17

The other application has to somehow signal that the files were really processed.

You can basically use the same kind of "signals" as suggested here for signaling that an upload has finished:
https://stackoverflow.com/q/26932341/850848

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