Toucan 1.0 Prerelease 1

Haven't found any bugs yet.
But the hunt goes on...
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts” - Richard P. Feynman

Looks good, but for the backup I would recommend having the default source dir be the drive and the backup file be the same as John's PAB.

Looks like you took my site down
I'll ask my host what exactly used most of my bandwidth though.
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Ryan McCue.
Blog.
So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.

Looks great.

"There is a tendency for the world to say to America, 'the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,' and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.

Tony Blair

Hello, Steve,
I've found a little quirk: if in the sync pane you add an extension, such as "exe", it will copy files called just "exe" (not "something.exe", plain "exe"), it will also copy a directory called "something.exe" and all it's files (that aren't excluded in some other way) BUT (and here's the rub) it will skip a directory called "exe".

I'm surprised how smart it is about that. My first thought was "this can never work without knowing if you mean an extension or a name". But it does. Just that one little funny case got away.

As an example of real life usage: if I want to backup/mirror/copy/whatever only my php files, and not my html files, I might want the html folder, but excluding the .html files.

Congrats on a great app! I'm loving it!!! (Besides, it seems it took a twisted mind like mine to find something resembling a bug in it!)

In the source dir I put a copy of good ol' NOTEPAD.EXE.
I opened it.
I mirrored (preserving attributes).

Everything OK. Now in the destination folder I have another copy of NOTEPAD.EXE. I opened it.

Mirror again (both notepads open).
Boom! Toucan Error. Failed to modify file times for '....NOTEPAD.EXE' (error 32: the process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.)

And the details button (I'm very favourably surprised that you're showing errors with this amount of detail!!!) said:

[little MB_ICONERROR] Cannot remove fileC:\.....NOTEPAD.EXE (No space between file and C:\ and no quotes)
[little MB_ICONERROR] Failed to copy the file '....NOTEPAD.EXE' to '....NOTEPAD.EXE'
[little MB_ICONERROR] Failed to open '[destination path]\NOTEPAD.EXE' for writing (error 32: the process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.)
[little MB_ICONERROR] Failed to modify file times for '[destination path]\NOTEPAD.EXE' for writing (error 32: the process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.)

It shouldn't have tried to do all that. It should have seen that all attributes were the same and leave the file alone.

Then I did the same thing with two copies of NOTEPAD.EXE in each dir (one in a sub dir, of course). This confirmed that in spite of errors it goes on with the rest, which is what I wanted to confirm. (With me, that one is a must. I hate programmes saying: "Failed on one file. Aborting", or just sittig there waiting for me to click OK for each file that goes wrong.) So congrats again!!!

But I got this log/details (path to dst and src removed by me):

12:16:42: Could not remove file\dst\NOTEPAD.EXE
12:16:42: Could not remove file\dst\exe2\NOTEPAD.EXE
12:16:42: Failed to copy the file '\src\exe2\NOTEPAD.EXE' to '\dst\exe2\NOTEPAD.EXE' (error 32: the process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.)
12:16:42: Failed to open '\dst\exe2\NOTEPAD.EXE' for writing (error 32: the process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.)
12:16:42: Failed to modify file times for '\dst\exe2\NOTEPAD.EXE' (error 32: the process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.)
12:16:42: Failed to copy the file '\src\NOTEPAD.EXE' to '\dst\NOTEPAD.EXE' (error 32: the process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.)
12:16:42: Failed to open '\dst\NOTEPAD.EXE' for writing (error 32: the process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.)
12:16:42: Failed to modify file times for '\dst\NOTEPAD.EXE' (error 32: the process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.)

The order seems to be a bit haphazard. With just two files, this isn't a problem, but in a long log, with many failures and four entries per failure... ouch!

If you add an exclude, don't fill anything in and hit OK, you get a blank line. This doesn't seem to cause any damage, but it looks a bit... dunno... "untidy"?

I just mirrored my USB drive (B:) (8.73 GB used) on top of yesterday's backup (a directory in F:).
It seem's to have worked OK (acording to WinMerge), but I got an error log with 3732 lines (seems like it's only 933 files with four lines for each).

Sample lines for one file:

Line 932:

02:03:57: Could not remove fileF:\...\entries

Lines 3730 to 3732:

02:36:10: Failed to copy the file 'B:\...\entries' to 'F:\...\entries' (error 5: access is denied.)
02:36:10: Failed to open 'F:\...\entries' for writing (error 5: access is denied.)
02:36:10: Failed to modify file times for 'F:\...\entries' (error 5: access is denied.)

The funny thing is that many (all?) of the files that failed like this where un-modified and closed (some have been so for days). If you can think of any tests that I could perform that would help to diagnose this, just shoot. I'll be glad.

Also, the progress bar seems to be for individual files, without any indication of progress for the whole job, which would be interesting to have because it takes a couple of hours to mirror so many data.

(I would post the complete log, but then again, I don't want to incurr Simeon's rage)

Hi!
I really love Toucan, great little App. I have just one question - in future, will it include auto-backup function, e.x. on running the app?

Keep up the good work!
Wichura

What if I run backup on a different computer? Will it automatically erase all my files?
Is it possible to backup only files that are newer, and to leave everything else as it is?
Cheers
Wichura