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getco
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Why would Toucan want to connect?

OK here's the think. I've just downloaded Toucan. I created a job and closed the application. Now I open it, and I load the job - ZoneAlarm asks me for permission to allow toucan.exe to connect to an IP that seems to be in my network in this format: IP:DNS. If I refuse it freezes. If I allow it goes normal. Why would that happen? Is ZA interpreting something incorrectly?

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Sounds

like a Zone Alarm problem to me, there isnt any code in there that I can think of that should do this, and my firewall doesn't appear (f-secure). Does it just appear when you select the job from the drop down box?

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Yes, only when I select a job

Yes, only when I select a job (no matter for which Tab) and only when that job has something in (I tried making an empty job, just saving something - didn't give an error).

On a side note - I'm a very lite user so I don't know how to use most of its features and I probably don't need them. But what I'd like to know is how do I encrypt my backups? And what is the password on the Backup tab for?

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If

you select the password checkbox then you will be prompted for a password and the backup will be encrypted Smile

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Then what does the Secure tab

Then what does the Secure tab do? Sorry if I'm getting annoying...

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problem Smile

The Secure tab can be used to encrypt files individually whereas backup bundles them all together into one file and then can optionally encrypt that file.

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Thanks man! Just one more -

Thanks man!

Just one more - is there a way to backup a registry key using Toucan?

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Nope

afraid not, it is not a very cross platform operation so it wont be added either. But if you wanted I expect you could script it in assuming regedit has command line options.

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