Disk monitoring settings

You can specify disk monitoring options in this settings dialog.

You can monitor all the hard-disks (recommended) or only the folders you specify.

There are two monitoring type options:

Live monitoring monitors the disk changes in real time. Immediately after the the setup program creates, deletes or modifies a file or a folder on your hard-disk, the installation monitor knows about it and writes this information to the install log.

Using snapshots for monitoring works like this:

The installation monitor reads information about all the files and folders on your disk. This information is called a snapshot.
The setup program of the application installs the application. During the installation, the setup program creates files and folders on your hard-disks.
After the application has installed itself, the installation monitor makes another snapshot. That means it records information about all the files and folders on your disks to a snapshot.
The installation monitor compares the snapshot made before the installation with the snapshot made after the installation, and makes a list of the files that have been added, deleted or renamed by the installation program.

Because of the time required to create and compare the snapshots this mode takes a lot of time. The more files and folders you have on your hard-disks, the more time this takes.