title: How Windows differentiates between Copied files and Created files
body: <p>I am looking for a bit of advice on how Windows file system differentiates between files that are copied(copy and pasted from another location) and files that are created (a new file created in a a folder).</p>
  
  <p>A bit of background to this so it makes more sense: I have an application that is used to move files. The application will monitor a directory and when a file is placed in the directory it will move it elsewhere. However, I am having issues where the application will not pick up a file that is created within the monitored directory but will pick up files that have been created else where and are copied into the monitored directory. </p>
  
  <p>Any advice on how Windows differentiates, or if it does at all, would be greatly appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>This is running on  Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard. I can't dig into the code and see what is going on under the hood unfortunately, so need to get an idea of the difference if any there would be. </p>