Toucan 2.1.0 Pre-Release 5

Been meaning to test this for a while now but hadn't had the chance. Thanks for the bump as I had forgotten. To start with it runs with no problem on XP SP3 with admin rights. I can confirm it has successfuly maintained my previous data, e.g. Jobs. Please do not reply directly to this comment. I will be editing it as I test. A good opportunity has come up as I need to migrate 121 GB of data from one portable hard drive to a new 500 GB Western Digital Passport.

As always thanks Steve

EDIT: First I can confirm the copy mode is working fine. I like the progress bar too. Only suggestions I have is to add a percentage counter, a time elapsed counter and estimated time remaining. With the progress bar setup to ensure accuracy above all I would think the timers and percentage counter shouldn't be difficult to setup. Then again I don't even know HTML

EDIT 2: Quick questions. Does Toucan support performing multiple jobs at once? If not is it possible to create this possibility? Are you open for suggestions about the progress screen? I have some ideas that I think would be good but I don't want to offend you by making unwelcome suggestions.

EDIT 2: Move function works

I asked not to reply to my post dude....

Oh well anyway carrying on, I have only been using pre-release 2 and haven't had the progress bar go green at all. It's just the segmented orange bar like Nero.

I don't know if this will happen with the actual execution but basically when I right click on folders and exclude them in sync then preview they still show up as being copied over

Also the first entry in the right click menu when I do try to exclude is Error in bold letters. Is this a function or an actual error?

Right now, I'm on a Vista machine that has been giving me headaches. It keeps giving me access errors. If I am trying to edit text files on my portable hard drive, it says that they are Read-Only. If I try to run programs that are on the portable hard drive, some will run, others will complain.

Toucan complains and says "Failed to update user configuration file." When I went into the "Details" it says "can't remove file "J:\PortableApps\Toucan210Pre\Data\Jobs.ini (error 5: access is denied)" and it repeats this for two other ini files.

When I look at the Data directory, I see a lot of files like:
Job1AFA.tmp
Job5954.tmp
Job5955.tmp
etc

and each one looks like a copy of the Jobs.ini file.

I also have:
Rul1B0C.tmp and more
Scr1B0B.tmp and more
Set6569.tmp and more

I'm sure that I didn't say to save any of the error box texts.

If I pick up the entire \Toucan210Pre directory and copy it to the Vista machine, it runs with no complaints or errors.

Jim

I'm having trouble using the scripting engine. I have never written a script before so please forgive my rudimentary understanding. I'm guess this isn't the same as writing a regulat bat script as well. Anyway can you set up a step guide in the help file? Can I suggest doing something where you show all the functions in their respective sections, stepped and illustrated. Then in the script help have a stepped guide where you set up a script that performs a number of the other functions. Maybe for the guide to be really effective have a tute in it which one can follow with ones own files or download a tiny zip that has some files in it you can use to test out the functions following the tute. Sorta like what people do when there learning word or excel just much smaller

More likely error on my behalf

Basically as I test this out I've created a "script" which is just 2 jobs that mirror the profile from my portable FF and TB to my local versions. i know the individual sybc jobs work fine as I've been using them for months now. However when using them in the Toucan scripting engine only the first line (Firefox sync job) is happening. Also I noticed when there are no changes to make nothing comes up in the progress screen just started and finished. For a while this made me think there must be an error. However can you correct the script text below.

Sync "Firefox To Home"
Sync "Thunderbird To Home"

Both the job names are correct.

EDIT: As predicted.. My Bad The answer was in my own post. because there was no changes to the Thunderbird data nothing showed for them. I therefore it didn't execute correctly. Can I suggest having a no updates required or something note come up for these instances? Also I would suggest having jobs separated in the progress view. I think I'll make a mock up of this in Gimp in the next few days and post to illustrate this and other ideas for the progress dialog.

I found that creating and saving a blank script, closing Toucan then opening and selecting the blank script really ticks off Toucan. It hangs and has to be forcibly closed

I got the scripting figured to some minor extent where I now have the profiles for TB and FF syncing back and forth with between local and portale versions when needed as well as a backup for various game profiles/saves. Only issue I have is how do I make these scripts work when I am using different pcs and my usb is coming up on different drive letters? Also I a few system and registry cleaners on my portable. I usually run them all then use JKDefrag once a week. Is it possible with the script engine to have them all run, do there thing, close then defrag with JK aftwards then they all close back to Toucan afterward?

Thanks in advance

is taking FOREVER to sync my nephew's backup (his drive, by the way, is a 16GB SanDisk Cruzer and it's abysmally slow), which, might I add, hasn't changed all that much since the last backup. I think the new hash checking is slowing it down... what's the point of hash checking when getting a hash means you have to read the whole file anyway? At that point you might as well just copy it outright.

Wrong place, wrong time.

I give up.

Jim

See here - https://portableapps.com/node/18875

Just noting the variables bug is still present when doing backups.

An example is where if the source file(s)/folders(s) change drive letter Toucan doesn't seem to be able to find them. I'm not sure if using the drive variable in the backup location path works either = (

I'm moving over jobs from version 1.2.2 manually since I've had issues with upgrading from 1.x to 2.x. After some stop and go's I'm having some major issues with 2.1 pr 4 crashing on me.

I have 13 sync jobs define and three rules sets. When I select one of my sync jobs Toucan crashes every time. The problem seem to be is some how the same sync job had two entries in the jobs.ini list. When I removed one of the duplicate jobs the program quit crashing. The duplicate job was named Sync_OS_Hotfixes_PC

A couple of minor things. First, Can you PLEASE set the window so it doesn't go full screen every time I launch the program? Even if it's a fixed size that is fine, but I hate it going full screen when I launch it.

Secondly, can you go back to running the command line job inside of the window that launched it? The reason for this is I run most of my jobs from batch files and when they are done I can see what has happened. Currently a new windows is spawned and when the job is done it closes leaving me with no way to see what the job did or did not do. I know there is some issue with one of my jobs cause the window is launched and then quickly goes away, yet I know there are items need to be synced.

Update 1: if I try to launch touch directly from the App\Toucan folder, like used to do with 1.2.2, I don't get the extra window, but I get an error message saying that "You have specified the wrong number of options". If I try to enter the command line options as they are defined in the help file or define a jobname I still get the same message.

Also, the release notes have 2008 in the date instead of 2009.

Update 2: What I would like to see with 2.1 is for this version to be rock solid with both the gui interface and the command line interface. I'm not sure about other users, but I keep having to go back to 1.2.2 cause any of the newer versions are not just stable enough to be use able. Even the current release 2.0.7 just isn't as stable as the older versions. While the gui work is nice, I would rather have a solid app and then add the pretty interface on top of that.

I have installed Toucan 2.1.0 Pre-Release 4 and has started a fresh new "Differential Backup" job.

I then select my D-drive, click the green "+" and then see the drive in the righthand column as normal.
I then select "D:\" , right-click and select "Exclude by name", because I only want a small number of files to be backed up. So far so good.
I then select one of the folders below the D-drive and click on the small "+" next to the folder name, to expand the folder, and Toucan Crashes.

It is not every time the crash happens. The feeling is that if I select to expand the folder faster than the entire D-drive can be loaded, the crash happens.

I run it on a WinXP SP2.

I have attached the output from the Windows Application eventviewer:

Event Type:	Error
Event Source:	Application Error
Event Category:	None
Event ID:	1000
Date:		17-04-2009
Time:		10:06:48
User:		N/A
Computer:	XXXXX
Description:
Faulting application toucan.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module toucan.exe, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x001dc09c.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74   Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c   ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 74 6f 75   ure  tou
0018: 63 61 6e 2e 65 78 65 20   can.exe 
0020: 30 2e 30 2e 30 2e 30 20   0.0.0.0 
0028: 69 6e 20 74 6f 75 63 61   in touca
0030: 6e 2e 65 78 65 20 30 2e   n.exe 0.
0038: 30 2e 30 2e 30 20 61 74   0.0.0 at
0040: 20 6f 66 66 73 65 74 20    offset 
0048: 30 30 31 64 63 30 39 63   001dc09c
0050: 0d 0a                     ..      

Best regards
JC

hi
i'm using toucan to sync from a xp pc to a freenas network attached storage because its light and fast and sets folder timestamps. freenas is a ufs filesystem. my typical sync is update, retain timestamps, attributes and ignore daylight saving.

1. when using 2.0.3 the destination file and folder timestamps are set to be the same as the source. all good.
BUT! on 2.1.0 pre-4 or pre-5 file timestamps are set to the copy time and not updated to the source's timestamp. folder timestamps are set as the source.
NOTE when i try 2.1.0 pre-5 syncing to an xp folder both file and folder timestamps are set ok.

2. I've tried the disablestream=1 in the .ini to speed up my sync over 100mbs lan and don't notice any reliable improvement in speed. toucan updates files that were unchanged since syncing with rsync (freebsd based), suggesting it checks for some file attribute that rysnc handles differently. I think I'm lost between filesystems!

I know toucan isn't aimed at my kind of task but theres some change in the 2.1.0 update that is causing a problem, for me at least.

keep up the great work