I used the example 2 in the inotifywait manpage as the starting point for my script. Using the close_write, create & move events worked well for me. Looked at incrond - seemed overkill/overcomplicated - chose not to use it.
But if it's fighting with something else in the background trying to do the same thing - it going to be a circular battle.
Well incrond was as easy as easy gets, but didn't seem to provide the level of control I need.
Taking your suggestion, I read that man page and setup a couple consoles with one running this: inotifywait -m --exclude "lost+found" --exclude "qbdir.dat" -e close --format "%:e %w" /mnt/Intuit_Data/*.*
And made some files, and used the client to access/edit/close a company file. Well, qbdbfilemon polls the directory endlessly and not mention there is a bloody myriad of close_write/close_nowrite that take place.
/me Throwing hands in the air...
Aside from a manual cron job, or explicit admin intervention each time a company is made, I'm at a loss.
Thanks everyone! jlc