# Watching new files being made in a folder?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/watching-new-files-being-made-in-a-folder/86444
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [August 27, 2022, 9:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/watching-new-files-being-made-in-a-folder/86444 "2022-08-27T21:52:51Z")
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### Author: ![Ahmed\_Salih](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ahmed_salih/32/206579_2.png) [@Ahmed\_Salih](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ahmed_Salih)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2022, 8:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/watching-new-files-being-made-in-a-folder/86444/2 "2022-08-30T20:31:04Z")

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Apparently no one really knows, if you are stuck on a similar point in the future I advise for now to have a look through this thread:

> [@How to stop a file watching task in Julia 1.8? Possible regression?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-stop-a-file-watching-task-in-julia-1-8-possible-regression/86448/11):
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> Thank you very much! You are indeed right that renaming = new file, even though it annoys me not being able to discern between modified name and actual new file. Still for now it is workable for me. Thank you for your help and time - it lets me progress my general code now. I do hope though that this becomes much better, because I find it so unbelievable that a language as Julia, which is good at so many things, actually struggles to properly close down subtasks and perform IO operations - th…

Or calling an external library you are familiar with.

I marked this as solution until/if someone provides a much better answer than what I did here 🙂

Kind regards

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