Hello PhillyR,

With the ls utility from GnuWin tools you can use ls -i to get the inode of the monitored directory. If the user subsequently renames the directory, its inode number remains unchanged, allowing you to identify the directory and retrieve its new name.¹ Here is some proof-of-concept code (minus error checking!):

#! perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $dir   =  'foo';
my $ls    =  (grep { /\s+$dir$/ } `ls -il`)[0];
   $ls    =~ /^\s*(\d+)/;
my $inode =  $1;

print "$dir --> $inode ";

rename $dir, 'bar';

$ls =  (grep { /^\s*$inode\s+/ } `ls -il`)[0];
$ls =~ /:\d{2}\s+(.*)$/;

print "--> $1\n";
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Output:

13:09 >perl 1076_SoPW.pl
foo --> 7318349394599033 --> bar

13:09 >
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(Tested on an NTFS file system under Windows 8.1, 64-bit.)

Hope that helps,

¹See this discussion.