Catching Save - newbie

[Vahur Lokk]

Beni Cherniavsky wrote:

> Perhaps you should rethink your goals.  Why would you want to catch
> file modifications and how do you want to manipulate them?  Perhaps
> there are better ways?  What is your real goal?
> 
I wanted to build a simplistic? document management system. For example, 
I've got folder for letters out as well as project-based folders. I would 
save the letter in Letters Out folder and a symlink created in respective 
project folder etc. Programs that create such files are different - office 
suite, mail client (attachments coming in), browser (files from web).

I have learned programming some 15 years ago (BASIC) and wanted to re-learn 
it and am looking for some small project for a start. 
File system drivers do not sound like a newbie project, though. Polling file 
system for changes did come to my mind as a solution, but it seems like 
very resource-hungry way to do things.

Wahur