File Monitor Utility

Quoting PMak

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Does anyone know of a good and FREE service or app that monitors directories for new file creations and then allows a custom smtp to be generated, or batch file to be run? There are a few apps out there, the only free one I found was RoboTask Lite but it's been a little buggy lately and only allows batch files and not not email actions (pro version).

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Quoting PMak

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Hi Kilian, the files are in the MT4 Files Folder and I tried writing an EA to run a batch file but it doesn't want to run at all. I always get error 2 I think. Have you been able to run a batch file successfully from MT4?

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#import "shell32.dll"
int ShellExecuteW(int hwnd,const string Operation,const string File,const string Parameters,const string Directory,int ShowCmd);
#import
//https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb762153%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
enum ENUM_SHELL_OPERATION{
   open,
   edit,
   explore,
   find,
   print,
   //NULL; you can not put null in here but it's a possible operation
};
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Script program start function                                    |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
void OnStart()
  {
   ENUM_SHELL_OPERATION operation = open;
   
  string batname = "ping";
   //Escape path
  string path = TerminalInfoString(TERMINAL_DATA_PATH)+"\MQL4\Files\\"+batname+".bat";
  StringReplace(path,"\\","\\\\");
  
  //StringInsertBegin("/C ",path);
   path = StringConcatenate("/C ",path);
   
   bool showCMD = true;
   
   ShellExecuteW(NULL,EnumToString(operation),"cmd.exe",path,NULL,showCMD);
   
  }
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+