Yes Will there be a situation where the directory is locked during the monitoring process?

[wll8]

Related questions are as follows. They say that the file is locked because of windows' own behavior, so does this repository also have this problem?

• When the listening folder has subfolders，The listening folder cannot be renamed paulmillr/chokidar#1113
• Issue with Renaming Nested Files paulmillr/chokidar#664
• fs.watch on Windows: Watching a directory blocks external rename nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#8371
• [Proposal] Use native ReadDirectoryChangesW on Windows to prevent locking? paulmillr/chokidar#670
• Either watchpack or chokidar is locking files in Windows paulmillr/chokidar#446 (comment)

[hoperyy]

Perhaps yes. sync-directory uses chokidar to watch file/folder changes.

[wll8]

After testing, it does prevent me from modifying the filename. But the author of chokidar doesn't intend to fix it.

Tools such as sync or syncthing do not cause directory locks, which means there is a way around this.

I think adobe/brackets#6686 is a solution, can you help me to solve it in sync-directory with patch?

• patch-package
• [File Watchers] Can not externally rename a directory with subfolders on Windows adobe/brackets#6551

[hoperyy]

It's quit a new way! I'll think of it and response here when ready.