File System Watcher on Mac with Bootcamp?

[Steve Faust]

I created a VB.NET 4.0 program that uses the FileSystemWatcher class to monitor a file for changes. I have one user who is on a Mac running a Windows virtualization. Here is her description of her setup (p.s. Revit is not my program, mine is suplementary to Revit and works with the keynote file mentioned):

I work on an iMac (Snow Leopard,) and have Revit 2012 installed in a Boot Camp partition of Windows 7, which I then run through a Parallels 6 window. I used to run Revit just through Parallels, sans Boot Camp, but this seems to work better (faster.) I do store my Revit files in the Mac OS, but the keynote file is in Windows 7.

Obviously this is a non-standard setup, but it is causing the FileSystemWatcher to fail. Is anyone familiar with this or know why it's failing or if it can be fixed?

Thanks,
Steve

 

[JohnH]

FileSystemWatcher only work with Windows file systems such as FAT32 and NTFS, so if this set up is interacting with Mac file system it will not work.

 

[Steve Faust]

That's kind of what I expected. However, it sounds like the file being monitored is in the Win7 OS as is my program so I didn't know if that made a difference. I'm not really sure what the interaction is when using parellels or bootcamp...

Thanks for the reply