Changes in the root directory of a drive are not notified

[extratype]

I'm syncing two D: drives in Windows 10. They are internal HDDs.

When I make a change (file/folder creation, deletion, modification), it does not sync soon. I have to wait for folder_rescan_interval. It seems Resilio Sync does not listen to file system notifications.

As a workaround I'm syncing every subdirectory at the root.

[Helen]

If you have option "enable system notification" on power settings enabled, Sync does listen to file system notifications,if the option is disabled, Sync does not. 

How do you check that "Sync does not listen to file system notifications." are these sent out at all? 

[extratype]

enable_file_system_notifications was set true all the time. I had added both root and non-root directories so I was able to compare Sync behavior when I added a file in a directory  and modified it. For a non-root directory, the file was synced after a few seconds. For a root directory, I waited for some seconds and it was not synced. So I just restarted the Sync service to force scanning and then the file was synced.

Notifications was definitely sent for a non-root directory. I don't think notifications was not sent just for a root directory of the same drive. At least Everything search (https://www.voidtools.com/) was aware of the change.

[RomanZ]

@extratype There is a peculiarity in Windows OS - the root directory of a disk must be monitored for changes in a different way than all other folders. We'll fix it in one of future releases, thank you for reporting.

[extratype]

Nice! Thank you very much!