If I understand correctly, you have problem when your program starts processing files that are not completely there (still being copied from somewhere else), or whatever. You need to prevent your program from grabbing your PDF file prematurely.

There are several things you could do: when you detect a new PDF, just sleep for some time before starting to process it (that works only is the time for the file to arrive is relatively constant). Another way is to have the process delivering the files to copy the files with a different name (e.g. an extension other that ".pdf", such as ".tmp"), and to rename the file only when the file delivery is complete. Or the process delivering the files could put a flag (an empty file with a name similar to the file being delivered) in the directory and remove the flag once delivery is complete. This way, your program knows when it can start processing the file safely

In reply to Re: File::Copy - move() function corrupting files by Laurent_R
in thread File::Copy - move() function corrupting files by myelinviolin

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