Watch for folder deletion

[serhii-babich]

Need to watch if folder is removed.

[shama]

Could you explain the issue you are having more?

[serhii-babich]

I have a dev folder and tmp folder. Files from dev are copying to tmp, and deleted if deleted in dev. But I need to have a possibility to remove a whole folder too, with or without content. But for now watcher does not react for folder deletion anyway.

[shama]

Which version of node and watch task are you using? and which OS and version are you on? Could you post your gruntfile as well? Thanks!

[NoiSek]

I still have this issue a few years along the line, removing a directory does not trigger a watch event.

My settings:

watch: {
  "js": {
    "files": ["static/es6/**"],
    "tasks": ["babel:dist"],
    "options": {
      "interrupt": true,
      "spawn": false
    }
  }
}

• Grunt v0.4.5
• Watch v0.6.1
• Node v0.12.4
• OS X v10.10.5

[rossb]

I'm also having this issue – specifically, folders that are in the "root" level (relative to the pattern) can be deleted without triggering watch, though sub-folders further down are watched OK.

My settings:

watch: {
  images: {
    files: ['src/img/**'],
    tasks: ['clean:images','copy:images']
  }
}

When "src/img/foo" is deleted, watch doesn't trigger. When "src/img/foo/bar" is deleted, watch triggers correctly.

• Grunt v0.4.5
• Watch v0.6.1
• Node v5.5.0
• OS v10.11.2

[audunolsen]

This issue still persists.

grunt.event.on('watch', function(action, filepath, target) {
  grunt.log.writeln(target + ': ' + filepath + ' has ' + action);
});

Code above will only log files/directories added, file changes, deletion of files, but not deletion of directories.

• Grunt 1.0.1
• Watch 1.0.0
• Node 7.5.0
• macOS 10.12.1