Archive for December, 2006

Automating FTP sessions: Rob van der Woude chooses Fileaze!

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Rob van der Woude is a real automation and scripting guru. He runs a very well known website where over the years he collected all the most useful information about file-level automation, scripting and batch processing. He likes Fileaze a lot and was key to discover little bugs and missing functionalities that lead to version 1.0.2. Now Rob happens to like Fileaze up to the point that he published a tutorial on his website where he explains how to automate FTP sessions! Needless to say that we are really proud of this. Rob: we appreciate your support to the maximum extent! Thanks a lot!!

Fileaze 1.0.2 is available, with some cool new features!

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

We’re happy to announce that Fileaze 1.0.2 is available for download from the usual location.

Here’s what’s new:

  • First we fixed a bug that occurred when uploading to FTP servers entire folder trees (when the “Keep folder structure” option was enabled in folder sources). Thanks to Rob van der Woude for spotting this out!
  • Talking about folder and FTP sources, we added an option to keep or avoid the creation of the first/root folder when the “Keep folder structure” option is enabled. Disabling this is particularly useful for uploads to webservers where the destination directory is usually different from your local directory (for example you have files in c:\mywebsite and want to upload to /foo and not /foo/mywebsite).
  • In addition, we added the possibility to exclude multiple (sub)folders from a folder source. This was asked by bigbew in a previous post and it’s there now. It can speed things up considerably when dealing with huge folders.
  • Again on the performance side, we added a checkbox to disable the realtime display of the log when a job is running: jobs running on thousands of files can run many times faster when the log is disabled!
  • Finally, we added the online tutorials to the help files. We suggest all new users to read through them to fully understand how Fileaze works in the shortest time.

We invite everyone to update. Just download and install over the existing installation, without uninstalling first.

Have fun!

PLEASE DOWNLOAD: Fileaze 1.0.1 critical update.

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

We found a nasty bug that can prevent long-running scheduled jobs to abort prematurely. This doesn’t affect jobs run from Fileaze’s interface. Everybody who downloaded Fileaze before December 6th 2006 is invited to download again to get version 1.0.1 that fixes the bug. Filename is still named FileazeSetup1.0.exe and can be downloaded from the usual location http://www.fileaze.com/FileazeSetup1.0.exe. Just install this over without uninstalling the old one first. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.