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I have discovered a problem (or revealed a misunderstanding): the %username%
variable records my name as the owner of the RTS task and doesn't show the
name of others as the change, delete, add files.

Is there a way to capture the relevant user's name please.

OK, that is a big improvement. The only issue, as you identified, is the lack
of clarity around a rename or move. Even if the system only returns a DELETE
value, would it be possible, in this case, to show the old and new file names
which would indicate that the file was renamed.

Thanks again.

Many thanks. I will give it a try and let you know how it goes.

Cheers.

OK, now I have RTS working to show me what changes are being made to folders
(thanks Zenju).

cmd /c echo %changed_file% %username% %weekday% %date% %hour%"."%min%"."%sec%
>> log.txt

However, it would be even better if I could log what the user did to the
changed file - e.g. copied, deleted ...

Whoa. Just realised that I have been on an older version. I can see that there
is now a lot of guidance in the help file so I will go and study that. Thanks
again.

OK. Thanks for that. I have also realised that I didn't express my question
very well. What I want to do is to have it do the monitoring that it does but
NOT synchronise files. So, if someone modifies a file on the left side I just
want to have a record of this without the amended file automatically ...

I am not a newbie with programming or IT in general but I am at a loss as to
how to setup RTS monitoring from the help file and guidance provided on this
site. What I want to do is monitor a folder tree with RTS and write to a log
file the date, time and username (and potentially other details that ...