Determine number of times file has been accessed

Hi,

I would like to know how many times a particular file has been accessed (by Windows or otherwise). I know you can get "Last Accessed" for a particular file....but is is possible to know the number of times a file has been accessed? how would you go about doing something like that?

[Jan]

This question cannot be solved within Matlab. Therefore I suggest to ask a Windows forum.

Answer 1

[Jason Ross]

In Windows, you can set this up using built-in tools on the OS, similar to the following example:

http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/monitor-and-track-when-and-who-accessed-a-folder-on-your-computer/

The accesses will show up in the Event Viewer.

Keep in mind that the more files you monitor, the more load this puts on the system.

I'm not aware of a way to do it other than setting up this more strict monitoring, unless you wanted to do something like serve it through a web server and have one of those "this page has been accessed X times" counters.