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import os
import time
import multiprocessing
from watchdog.observers import Observer
from watchdog.events import FileSystemEventHandler

class MyHandler(FileSystemEventHandler):
    def on_created(self, event):
        print(f'event type: {event.event_type} path : {event.src_path}')

def monitor_folders(path, newPath):
    event_handler = MyHandler()
    observer = Observer()
    observer.schedule(event_handler, path, recursive=True)
    observer.start()

    try:
        while True:
            time.sleep(1)
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        observer.stop()
    observer.join()

folder1 = '/home/bilal/Videos/folder1'
folder2 = '/home/bilal/Videos/folder2'

if __name__ == "__main__":
    m1 = multiprocessing.Process(target=monitor_folders, args=(folder1, folder2))
    m2 = multiprocessing.Process(target=monitor_folders, args=(folder2, folder1))
    m1.start()
    m2.start()


What I have tried:

This code is monitoring the data of two paths. Both directory paths have the same number and the same name of subdirectories.

But I want to add something more to this code and that is if I created a file in a parent directory then that file should be copied to the second parent directory. And if I created a file in any child subdirectory then that file should also be copied to the second subdirectory path.

I used os.system(f"rsync -a {folder1}/ {folder2}") but that was only copying the parent directory.
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Richard MacCutchan 6-Mar-21 11:55am    
You need to capture the full path name of the source file, and use the content to build the pathname of the destination.

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