Folder/File Availability wildcards

doodleman99 · Post by **doodleman99** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 4:52 am

Hi there guys,
I used to run a file check to check that last night's backup was created.

but it now seems to be failing even though the file exists?

it used to check for \\server\share\folder\subFolder\*.bak and alert if the file was older than 12hours

has something changed in a recent update that would affect the use of the wildcard * in my file location?
is there an alternative?

Thanks,
JV

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 5:41 am

but it now seems to be failing even though the file exists?

seems to be failing?
What is exactly test Status/Reply? HostMonitor version?

it used to check for \\server\share\folder\subFolder\*.bak and alert if the file was older than 12hours

If there are several files in the folder then using "*" is wrong idea because you do not want to check just some "random" file, you want to check newest file, right? Then you should use %NewestFile% variable
\\server\share\folder\subFolder\%NewestFile%

Regards
Alex

doodleman99 · Post by **doodleman99** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:42 am

ah!!! perfect!
didnt know about that variable

sorry!!!

there are indeed multiple files which is obviously why it's failing..... not sure how/why it worked before?

Many thanks for your speedy(as always) response!!!
keep up the good work!

JV

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:58 am

You are welcome

Regards
Alex