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Toucan 3.1 Progress

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Steve Lamerton
DeveloperModerator
(Homepage) - December 7, 2010 - 4:17pm

Toucan 3.1

I am hard at work on Toucan 3.1 and thought I would give you all a quick update on what I plan to add for the new version. I will update and expand this when progress is made on each of the sections.

Improved Progress Output


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Translating Toucan 2

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Steve Lamerton
DeveloperModerator
(Homepage) - October 9, 2008 - 12:16pm

If you do not have an existing translation then follow these steps:

  1. Download a copy of Poedit. This is the program you will use to translate Toucan.
  2. Go to http://drop.io/toucanlang and download the default.pot file
  3. Open Poedit and click File->New catalog from POT File and fill in your details, if you do not provide an email address I will not be able to ask for updates and your translation is unlikely to be included in Toucan. Save it as toucan.po

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Rules feature crashes the program

dranjithk - May 23, 2012 - 6:36am

Just when I click the Rules tab and then click the + sign to add a new rule, the program crashes. I get a dialog box that says "Toucan.exe has stopped working". How can I get this fixed? If there is an older version that doesnt have this issue, please give me a download link. 3.0.2 maybe?

Great software! Thanks in advance!!


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How do I tell which release I am running?

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DiamondKnight19 - May 18, 2012 - 12:35am

The About tells me that I am running 3.1. Below is a date, but I have no idea which release... 10, 11, 12, 13?


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Cannot run multiple pre-release Toucan sessions from the command line

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uk_dave - May 9, 2012 - 11:49am

With the production release of Toucan and with earlier builds of the pre-release Toucan it was possible to run multiple sessions of Toucan from the command line. This made using the command line really handy for Scheduled Task back ups and syncing of multiple jobs/locations.

However after build 6 of pre-release the ability to run multiple command sessions of Toucan has been restricted. I assume this change was made because of this thread: http://portableapps.com/node/29326


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Bugs I found in 3.04

DBDigital - May 2, 2012 - 1:46pm

Bugs I recently found:

click rules tab at top of screen

click add (+ at top of screen) when there is nothing defined below

Tucan CRASH

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Also:
Can't delete items from Rules if just one side of a line is selected. I have to select (click/hold/drag) type and rule (full line) then click the "-" to remove.

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Backup with password and test problem

NigelLGH - May 2, 2012 - 9:25am

Hi,
I have just started to use Toucan and when I try to do a 7-zip complete backup with password and test after creation, Toucan hangs after it has created the archive and does not do the test.

I found ( after an hours wait!) that by killing the 7zip process in windows task manager it finished the task with the following text in the end of the progress window:

Compressing Budget\Home_Budget20120501.xlsm
Compressing Budget\MASTER_20120403.xlsm

Everything is Ok

7-Zip (A) 9.17 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-10-04


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3.1.0 Pre-Release - Sync Mirror delete from destination not working

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uk_dave - April 25, 2012 - 6:59am

It appears that the Sync Mirror delete from destination is not working on on the 3.1.0 Pre-Release -- at least on my systems. I have tested using both pre-release build 6 and 11 and get the same results.

Sync Function options:

Mirror

File Checks options:

File size
Modified time
Short Comparison

Other options:

Retain Timestamps
Retain Attributes
Ignore Read-Only
Use Recycle Bin

Source:

C:\Test\a.txt
C:\Test\b.txt

Destination:

E:\Test

On initial first run in my destination location as expected I get both the a.txt and b.txt files.


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Toucan 3.0.4 - Error accessing networked drives, files are deleted !!!

jahmanjah - April 12, 2012 - 7:25pm

Hello!

When Sync/Mirroring from a networked drive, files are not fond on the source network drive and thus are deleted on the target drive! Yikes!

This is very bad!

I know I can map a networked drive and then it will work, but that's not the point: If Toucan won't work with a networkwed drive, then selecting networked drives (without mapping) should be disabled (because Toucan will trash target files at an incredibly high speed.)

Cheers,

- jahman.


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sync conflicts -- both files are changed

johnviku - April 12, 2012 - 12:18pm

i am familiar with a problem with syncing that i encountered in syncing i have had to do myself in the past.

Sorry if the answer to this question is already somewhere, but i couldnt find it. I searched for "sync conflict" and "both changed"

Let me give you two related scenarios.

1. file.txt is synced. on local c: disk and a shared backup drive. I and another person are on two different computers. I am editing my local copy, and he is editing the copy on the shared drive. What happens.


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