Events always fire 2 times about watch HOT 13 CLOSED

I was able to resolve this issue by using a small work-around. I wanted to watch for new files created. Faced the same issue of 'created' event getting fired twice. Here's my workaround.

monitor.on("created", function (f, stat) {
  if (monitor.files[f] === undefined) {
     console.log('created: ' + f);
  }
})

Hope this helps.

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I might be wrong but i think its comes from line 83
fileWatcher(root);
the root is alreay included in the files object so it should be deleted

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+1 I have the same issue, create always seems to fire twice

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I have a feeling may be an issue with watch on OSX, can you confirm you are using OSX, @KaToKa?

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I can confirm that node's built-in fs.watch will trigger two events for a file creation on OSX. I believe this is likely the source of the problem. How on earth do we fix that?

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@secoif u are right. I was working on OSX that day. In the end I used another approach without watch (just an interval with nodes readdir)

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This is not an OSX only bug as the behavior occurs on Ubuntu 11.10 install as well. This is due to fs.watchFile on line #56 being deprecated and replaced with fs.watch. I submitted a pull request.

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+1 on ArchLinux. Does anyone still maintain this? Because I see a lot of old not solved issues.

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The issue for this was closed on the joyent node github repo because of this explanation: nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#2054 (comment)

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Hi !

i work with you module in windows and nodeja 0.10.x and i have twice event on create file.
Its because in main.js

    fileWatcher(root);
    for (var i in files) {
      fileWatcher(i);
    }
    callback(files, null, null);
  })
}

files array have root path to. and subscribe to root doing twice.
i don`t know how it work in another OS if correctly then you can add this:

    fileWatcher(root);
    for (var i in files) {
      if (i === root) continue;              // <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
      fileWatcher(i);
    }
    callback(files, null, null);
  })
}

Thank you

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thanks @ignatiusd for sharing that work-around was experiencing this issue too on osx 10.8

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thanks @ignatiusd your work-around worked for me too!
I was receiving two 'created' event per file on Ubuntu 15.04

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Looks like the work around is acceptable, please open a new issue if you anyone is still experiencing problems.

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