How Reflection Gateway Determines if Files have Changed

Job actions are triggered when files change in a scanned directory. To determine which files in a directory have changed, the Reflection Hub service compares directory listings of that directory. A file is marked as changed if any of these conditions are met:

  • It is new in the second listing, which means the file was added to the directory between the two listings.

  • The modification timestamp changed.

  • The file size changed.