Final Cut Server Email Response Issues...

I'm having trouble with email responses.
Basically I've created a number of file system watchers that are looking for creation/modification of files that have been compressed using Episode Engine (in the monitors folder). The entire monitors folder is a device - each encoding subfolder is watched. The response is to send a generic email that says the encoding job has completed.
They've always worked (some minor kinks) then all of a sudden they stopped. The response is never triggered. It's almost like the watcher has given up. I've tried creating new watchers - I've modified the response. I'm out of ideas.
Anyone have any thoughts?

\# touch *
That will hit everything in the folder but will not go into subdirectories. There is not a built in command for making touch recursive, but you could get the same effect by invoking touch with this find string:
\# find "<path to files>" -type f -exec touch '{}' \;
That will refresh the timestamp on every file in that directory tree.

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