How to check if writing a file is finished

Hello everyone,

in my process a file is written by an application. My robot needs to copy the new file to another folder and in a second step move it to a third folder.

Sometimes the file gets bigger, so i whant to check, if the writing process is finished. How can I check this? ‘File Exist’ only knows, if the file exists. Or can I rely on the file system, that copy will always wait until writng is finished?

Thank you!

Is there any indication of the progress in the application?

Hi @mm1904

How would we know the writing is completed in the file. Is there any change in the status or any symbol shows.

How in detail is the file written / which activities

in some case we can

  • exploit Wait for Download
  • checking in cycles the increasing File Size
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Hi,
thanks for your replies!

The application is started by some commands in a batch-file like ‘do export #12’ and there is no status or any other symbol.

The file is written to a folder in our network, so I can try if file size is increasing. And I did’t know the ‘download file’ activity, i will try if it works in my case.

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