# Watched Folders do not work in windows 10

**URL:** <https://forum.fontba.se/t/watched-folders-do-not-work-in-windows-10/2011>\
**Category:** Bugs\
**Created:** [September 23, 2026, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/watched-folders-do-not-work-in-windows-10/2011 "2026-09-23T18:04:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![SLyon](https://forum.fontba.se/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@SLyon](https://forum.fontba.se/u/SLyon)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/watched-folders-do-not-work-in-windows-10/2011/1 "2026-09-23T18:04:41Z")

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Just setup FontBase as a paid user and tried to add a watched folder that is on a local drive and it did not work. I also tried to reference a folder on my C drive and that did not work. Please advise. I can supply a video if you need one.

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**Author:** ![yuriy](https://forum.fontba.se/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/ea666f/32.png) [@yuriy](https://forum.fontba.se/u/yuriy)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/watched-folders-do-not-work-in-windows-10/2011/2 "2026-09-24T12:21:29Z")

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Hello @SLyon thank you for your post and welcome to the forum 🙏

Could you please DM me the video (as a Google drive link perhaps?) so we can figure this one out quicker?

Thank you again,

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**Author:** ![SLyon](https://forum.fontba.se/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@SLyon](https://forum.fontba.se/u/SLyon)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2026, 12:37am UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/watched-folders-do-not-work-in-windows-10/2011/3 "2026-09-25T00:37:06Z")

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Can’t do that but if you give me a email address I can send it to you. File is only 1.1K. It shows me inside of FontBase clicking on the Add → Watched Folder → Creating the folder selecting it then seeing that it does not appear under folders. I did try this a couple of different ways as well.

Best

Steve

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**Author:** ![yuriy](https://forum.fontba.se/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/ea666f/32.png) [@yuriy](https://forum.fontba.se/u/yuriy)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2026, 11:56am UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/watched-folders-do-not-work-in-windows-10/2011/4 "2026-09-25T11:56:47Z")

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Thank you for the quick reply @SLyon 🙏

Does the folder you’ve tried adding contain any font files supported by FontBase?

Thank you again,

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**Author:** ![SLyon](https://forum.fontba.se/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@SLyon](https://forum.fontba.se/u/SLyon)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2026, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/watched-folders-do-not-work-in-windows-10/2011/5 "2026-09-25T20:55:37Z")

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Yurtiy:

This is on a HP ZBook 17 G3 Mobile Workstation running  
Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1535M v5 @ 2.90GHz 2.90 GHz  
Installed RAM: 32.0 GB (31.9 GB usable)  
Storage: 932 GB HDD HGST HTS721010A9E630, 932 GB SSD Samsung SSD 990 EVO Plus 1TB  
Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro M5000M (8 GB), Intel(R) HD Graphics P530 (128 MB)  
System Type: 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Edition: Windows 10 Pro  
Version: 22H2  
Installed on: ‎3/‎21/‎2021  
OS Build: 19045.6456

This is on an internal HDD drive on my computer although I have tried it on one of my USB SSD drives.

The directory (D:\Temp\New folder\).

Here is a full listing of the folder.

D:\Temp\New folder\ARIAL-BLACK.TTF  
D:\Temp\New folder\ARIAL-BOLDITALICMT.TTF  
D:\Temp\New folder\ARIAL-BOLDMT.TTF  
D:\Temp\New folder\ARIAL-ITALICMT.TTF  
D:\Temp\New folder\ARIALMT.TTF  
D:\Temp\New folder\ARIALNARROW-BOLD.TTF  
D:\Temp\New folder\ARIALNARROW-BOLDITALIC.TTF  
D:\Temp\New folder\ARIALNARROW-ITALIC.TTF  
D:\Temp\New folder\ARIALNARROW.TTF  
D:\Temp\New folder\HelveticaLTStd-Blk.otf

I wanted to keep it simple to make sure I was not doing something wrong.

Steve