I can not seem to get the Local File Trigger to monitor changes to the entire directory structure (primary folder, all sub-folders, and all files). My search of other questions hasn’t really given me any insight (New to n8n) on how to solve this issues. After researching other question similar to my question, it seems like the Local File Trigger does not support what I am trying to do. But I don’t know the replacement flow to accomplish the goal.
What exactly is the failure? Does the Trigger not fire or do you get any specific error? Is your workflow activated?
Since you’re hosting with docker, how did you map the bridge to your local directory? Can you share your configuration?
The default n8n container directory is /home/node, this is also where the Local File Trigger will be running from. So if you want to map to /automation/docs/**/* you will need to have that bridge configured in your docker set up like so:
The trigger is monitoring. I am wanting it to return any file changes within the directory structure. I am testing by moving the entire directory, folders, sub-folders, and all files into the path. However, I am only getting 1 file returned as “added”. So it’s detecting {docs/1_file_added of 8 file added/no_folders_or_files_detected}