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I have a Windows 8 VM running in Parallels on OSX. The VM is set up so that my home directory on Mac is shared as a mapped network drive.

I'm writing an application which performs an action whenever a specific file changes. Up until this point, I've been using polling, but I'd much rather respond to events.

I'm trying to use something like FileSystemWatcher, but for some reason, it's not raising changed events on the parallels drive. I know there must be some way to monitor that drive for changes, though, because Visual Studio responds to file changes on the drive.

Is FileSystemWatcher able to monitor a drive mapped through parallels, or is there a better option?

Brian Gradin
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  • related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/151804/system-io-filesystemwatcher-to-monitor-a-network-server-folder-performance-con - perhaps the way their server is setup it doesn't supply that data. – Daniel A. White May 04 '15 at 16:35
  • As I mentioned, Visual Studio seems to monitor files on the share properly, so there must be **some** way to do this. – Brian Gradin May 04 '15 at 16:45

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