Folder watchers are responsible for monitoring folders. Files inside these folders will be processed, in case they match the rules you have defined, by the actions that are defined in the matching File pattern. Set up folder watchers for folders that you want to be automatically organized on schedule or constantly.
For example, let's assume that you are used to download videos from the web to 'C:\Incoming'. You have probably defined a file pattern with a 'move' action, to move all video files to 'C:\Videos'. In that case, you would probably want to define a folder watcher to monitor 'C:\Incoming'. Video files that are discovered in 'C:\Incoming', will be automatically moved to C:\Videos.
You may define as many folder watchers as you like and associate them with whatever file patterns you desire.
Creating a Folder Watcher
Start Hygeia > Choose Folder Watchers from the welcome screen > Click the '+' button
Creating a folder watcher is quite easy. Start by choosing a folder to scan and the file patterns that should be apllied to this folder (You may choose a subset or all of the file patterns). Of course, you can either choose to scan inside sub folders or not to.
Last thing is to choose the scan method. 'Continuously' will discover new files (and existing files when the 'Scan folder when Hygeia starts' option is checked). 'Schedule' will let you select the days of the week that you want Hygeia to scan on.
