https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-sdk-questions/capture-gis-data-moving-renaming-in-catalog-pane/m-p/1648654#M13119 <P>I previously asked about this <A href="https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-sdk-questions/capture-file-folder-moving-renaming-in-catalog/m-p/1604985" target="_self">here</A> and got a good answer from&nbsp;<a href="https://community.esri.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/42133">@GKmieliauskas</a>&nbsp;</P><P>So, I'm finally getting around to experimenting with this and having a bear of a time, but that's fine. I'll probably be posting here a bunch as I get deeper in.</P><P>Thinking about it, I think that the built-in FileSystemWatcher class will work for standard Windows files and folders, but I don't think it'd work for geodatabase feature classes.&nbsp;</P><P>Basically I'm trying to capture any changes to a given folder, including GIS information. Obviously, Catalog uses some sort of event because it'll repair layers in a map automatically if their datasources have been renamed.&nbsp; How does this work?</P> Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:20:48 GMT AlfredBaldenweck 2025-09-08T17:20:48Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-sdk-questions/capture-gis-data-moving-renaming-in-catalog-pane/m-p/1648654#M13119 <P>I previously asked about this <A href="https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-sdk-questions/capture-file-folder-moving-renaming-in-catalog/m-p/1604985" target="_self">here</A> and got a good answer from&nbsp;<a href="https://community.esri.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/42133">@GKmieliauskas</a>&nbsp;</P><P>So, I'm finally getting around to experimenting with this and having a bear of a time, but that's fine. I'll probably be posting here a bunch as I get deeper in.</P><P>Thinking about it, I think that the built-in FileSystemWatcher class will work for standard Windows files and folders, but I don't think it'd work for geodatabase feature classes.&nbsp;</P><P>Basically I'm trying to capture any changes to a given folder, including GIS information. Obviously, Catalog uses some sort of event because it'll repair layers in a map automatically if their datasources have been renamed.&nbsp; How does this work?</P> Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:20:48 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-sdk-questions/capture-gis-data-moving-renaming-in-catalog-pane/m-p/1648654#M13119 AlfredBaldenweck 2025-09-08T17:20:48Z