Quote Originally Posted by mikerickson
1) Are you using a Mac
2) Is increasing relative to the file size 1 day ago, 1 minute ago,...
How long can the file remain un-changed before it becomes "IDLE"?
hi mike,

thanks for the reply, I'll try to be more precise:

1) no, I'm on a PC

2) the file that this script will be monitoring is a video file being encoded by windows media encoder, and as such it will increase in size as long as it is being encoded, which will be about 2-3 hours. I need the script to continously verify that this is actually happening, so an ideal scenario would be for the script to check the file every ten seconds and compare the file size between those intervals. If the file size has increased (or even changed, I suppose) =OK, if it hasn't =IDLE.

I hope this provided you with the information you were looking for!

/Fred