Monitoring Clipboard for File Copy and Paste

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Hi my friends,imagine a user copy(or cut) a file or folder(or any object) from a location of your hard drive and paste it to another place,
(for example from drive "C:\test\" to "D:\new\"),
How can you get the source path and the destination path of that file.
thanks in advance.

Posted 1-Jan-10 18:46pm

mortezaa

Updated 1-Jan-10 21:32pm

Brady Kelly

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Brady Kelly · Answer 1 · 2010-01-01T21:31:00

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I don't know about monitoring the clipboard, but you could set up a FileSystemWatcher[^], to wait for a file to be created and one to wait for a file to be deleted. If they are the same file (an exercise left up to the reader), you will have your source and destination.

Posted 1-Jan-10 21:31pm

Brady Kelly