Fileaze 1.0.5 lite released too!

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Shortly after the shareware version, the free Fileaze Lite 1.0.5 has been released too and is available for download at the usual locations.

Details about what’s new can be found in the Fileaze shareware 1.0.5 announcement post

Please note that the improvement to the email action doesn’t apply here since Fileaze Lite doesn’t support network functionalities.

Fileaze 1.0.5 released!

Monday, September 1st, 2008

We’re happy to announce the immediate availability of Fileaze shareware 1.0.5, a
minor upgrade to 1.0.4 that includes features and bug fixes mostly based on our users’ feedback and requests. Fileaze 1.0.5 is a suggested upgrade to all Fileaze users.

Fileaze Lite 1.0.5 will be released too within a couple of weeks.

LICENSING NOTE

Fileaze 1.0.5 is a FREE upgrade for all current customers. You don’t
need a new serial for 1.0.5 if you already purchased one for any
previous version.

UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS

To upgrade preserving your data, first make a full backup of your
machine and be sure you can restore it if anything goes wrong.
Download the installer from the Fileaze website and install over the
old version WITHOUT uninstalling first. You won’t need to re-enter the
registration information if upgrading a licensed installation.

WHAT’S NEW

- The email account editor now accepts e-mail address where the mailbox part is composed of digits only, e.g. 123456@example.com

- A new option in the delete action allows for removal of matching folders in sources that are found empty when the action runs. Previously, empty folders were ignored (this behavior is preserved now if you leave the option unchecked)

- Fixed some minor bugs, which improves the reliability of the application

Fileaze Lite 1.0.4 available for download

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

We’re happy to announce that, shortly following the release of Fileaze 1.0.4, the Lite (freeware) version is available for download from our website. Fileaze Lite 1.0.4 includes the same improvements of the shareware version, limited to the reduced set of functionalities of the free version.

About Fileaze Lite

Fileaze Lite, the stripped-down version of the shareware Fileaze, is an automation tool for batch file tasks allowing you to execute sequences of operations on a collection of files and folders. Fileaze Lite can batch-copy, move, rename, delete, change attributes and dates. It supports text replacement, Regular Expressions in pattern matching to help you fine-tune your file selection and parameterized execution through a set of predefined constants that are evaluated and substituted at run-time. Fileaze Lite lets you select files from multiple locations within a single job so you can easily automate complex and tedious manual tasks by turning them into smart jobs. By combining all these features you can create batch jobs from the simplest to the most sophisticated. Fileaze can become a backup tool or a batch renamer or you can turn it into an automatic digital photo downloader that creates date-based folders for smart photo organization.

Fileaze 1.0.4 released!

Monday, February 11th, 2008

We’re happy to announce the immediate availability of Fileaze 1.0.4, a minor but important upgrade to 1.0.3 that includes several new features based on our users’ feedback and requests.

LICENSING NOTE

Fileaze 1.0.4 is a FREE upgrade for all current customers. You don’t need a new serial for 1.0.4 if you already purchased one for any previous version.

UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS

To upgrade preserving your data, first make a full backup of your machine and be sure you can restore it if anything goes wrong. Download the installer from the Fileaze website and install over the old version WITHOUT uninstalling first. You won’t need to re-enter the registration information if upgrading a licensed installation.

WHAT’S NEW

- The Copy, Move, Rename and Delete actions all have a new option to retry the operation a specified number of times after a specified delay if the file can’t be accessed because locked.

- The Copy, Move and Rename action include a new option to control overwriting of existing files that let you choose between “Always”, “Never” and “Only if not readonly”.

- The Delete action can now optionally remove the folder previously containing the deleted file if found empty or all the empty folders up to the folder specified as source in the job.

- The E-mail action can now be suppressed if there are no files to attach to the message.

- FTP host settings now support the host:port syntax, allowing FTP connections to be made on non standard ports.

- The log window now shows the full path and filename of the log file in the titlebar, making it easy to find it for further processing.

- The log window has been increased in width and the font has been changed to fixed width to increase readability.

- Logging can now be set for all events, only errors or none.

- It’s now possible to create chains of independent jobs by specify a secondary job to be run after the main job finishes executing (both for manual and scheduled execution). Options are available to execute the secondary job (or different secondary jobs) in different scenarios: when the main job finishes successfully with at least one source, when it succeeds even without sources, when it succeeds with minor errors (typically action errors) and/or when it fails due to major errors (typically source errors).

- A new tutorial (no. 5) is included in the help and in the tutorial section here, showing how to leverage some of these new features by creating a chain of two jobs that e-mails you the log file of the main job.

For a detailed explanation of all these features, please refer to the help files included with the application.

Tutorial 05: Chaining jobs for smart e-mail log notification

Monday, February 11th, 2008

In this fifth tutorial we’ll leverage some neat features available in Fileaze starting from version 1.0.4 to get a job’s log via e-mail by automatically chaining two job executions. (more…)

FREE Fileaze Lite released!

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

We’re happy to announce that a freeware version of Fileaze, named Fileaze Lite, is available for download. Fileaze Lite doesn’t include all the features found in Fileaze (basically what’s missing is all network operations - email, FTP, HTTP -, encryption/decryption, scheduling and user-defined constants) but can be downloaded and used for free without any expiration.

For a more in-depth description of Fileaze Lite, please read this page.

At the same time, we removed the special introductory $10 discount and finally set the regular price to $29.99, at which Fileaze is still one of the cheapest automation tools around! Thanks for all the customers who purchased Fileaze early and contributed to it’s growing success!

Tutorial 04: Working with command line tools: RAR compression/decompression

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

Fileaze can batch compress and decompress using the Zip and Unzip actions but what about other formats? We’re fans of WinRAR and the RAR format and Fileaze happens to work great with the command line. In this fourth tutorial we’ll see how easy it is to enable batch RAR compression and decompression through Fileaze and the rar.exe command line tool! (more…)

Fileaze 1.0.3 available for download

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

This is a minor update release. It introduces detailed logging for FTP action errors and a new option in the job editor’s advanced tab to empty a job’s log file before the job runs: this is useful for jobs involving a huge number of file that can increase the log file size considerably.

Please download the latest version at the usual location (http://www.fileaze.com/download/) and install it over the existing one without uninstalling the older version first.

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!