I agree and logged this as a feature request. There are some difficulties with getting this to work in medium trust web sites, since the obvious .NET class to use - FileSystemWatcher - only works in full trust. The workaround is to manually write code that monitors the file system, and at this point it is not known if this can be done efficiently for large numbers of directories and files.

Since it is not difficult to manually invoke a synch, it is fair to say there are quite a few other feature requests with higher priorities.

But thanks for the submission.

I strongly agree with this request. In the past I used Webguide4 to share my media collection via the web. My media collection is a hierarchy of folders/pictures/videos. Webguide4 dynamically composed the web-pages (including folders/albums, thumbnails, compressed views of pictures, and also the full detail, and additionally transcoding of video content on the fly). With Webguide4, there was no need to do a synchronize. In fact, others (for example, my wife) could add pictures to my picture collection and they were instantly available via the web. With Microsoft's Live Mesh, it is now easy to make it where family and friends can add pictures to your collection, but of course they have no way to tell Gallery Server Pro to synchronize.

The problem with WebGuide4 is that the developer was hired by Microsoft and has stopped development. I've recently upgraded to Windows 7 RTM and found that WebGuide4 no longer works. So I am looking for a replacement. I don't want to have two copies of my media collection and I don't want to have to do any extra steps for the web presentation of my collection.

Roger wrote:
since the obvious .NET class to use - FileSystemWatcher
I guess you are thinking of Gallery Server Pro doing updates at the time that the media files are updated. That'd be great. Another alternative would be for Gallery Server Pro to do updates at the time that anyone attempted to browse that portion of the media collection. I don't know whether this would be any easier to implement though.

Roger wrote:
Since it is not difficult to manually invoke a synch
In some contexts/environments it may not be difficult to invoke a synch. But please think of other possibilities. I can be on the road adding pictures to my collection with my SmartPhone via Live Mesh. Accessing Gallery Server Pro's interface in this environment would be a hassle (for example, remote desktop from my cell phone). While this might seem like a pie in the sky nicety to you, I think this would be a critical feature for me to adopt Gallery Server Pro.

Thanks for considering it.