Toucan 3.1 Progress

1. please add such variables as @quarter of year@ and @current user@ if possible
2. please add Rules to Remember Entered Information block
3. toucan hangs if no rules selected and press green plus near the rules combobox
4. the list of rules is ... awkward:
- for delete rule by pressing red minus need to select all row of the list, and to do this and how matter to do this - is very non-obvious
- cannot delete rule by pressing Delete on keyboard
- text cursor in the parameter field of rule disappears, and editing happens blindly
5. do you consider to implement the wildcards? regex complicates toucan using and scare away many users. And wildcards completes 80% tasks, imho.

While you're in the code that deals with path names, could you please add an option in "Sync" that tells it to use full paths?

For example, right now if I Sync (copy or mirror mode) from folder C:\abc\def\ghi to folder F:\C_Drive, the following file:
C:\abc\def\ghi\jkl\mno.txt
...gets copied to:
F:\C_Drive\jkl\mno.txt

I'd like the option to instead have the "destination" file/path automatically end up as:
F:\C_Drive\abc\def\ghi\jkl\mno.txt

This makes it a lot easier to set up and maintain selected "sub-backups" of a drive (all in a single Toucan "job set"), and ensures that it's possible to unambiguously ascertain which files on the mirror copy came from which original folders.

This option probably wouldn't make sense with bi-directional Syncs (like "equalise" mode) and should be enabled only for the one-way Sync operations.

Following this, will the new rules provide an easy way to only copy certain files from a given folder (without copying any other file/sub-folder)?

Could you put an Copy Newer or Copy Missing option in the Sync Portion of the App

I am willing to test specific functionality if it will help during your development.

Thanks.

Hi,
Thanks for this very useful application.
However, I miss an sync option that would be very useful for me:: add newer files from source to destination. Don't know exactly what could be the name of this sync option but the behavior would be:
S&D, S newer: copy S to D
S&D, D newer: -
S only: copy S to D
D only: -

Didn't find anything looking like that...

Hi Steve,

I'm a fan of Toucan and am anxiously awaiting version 3.1. Could you post an update about the progress you are making? I am curious as to how long it will take to complete(but, not to rush you in any way).

Keep up the good work!

I got lost in the "UNC" paths. Could someone explain?

I'm not a Toucan regular user, but i'll tell you I haven't found a single syncing/backup program which could be managed the way Toucan is. I threw away syncing with windows some time ago but anyway I'd still use it if I had to instead of any other

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Ive not used Toucan before - but I downloaded and ran the 3.1.0_RC3 in order to encrypt some files. I started simply after the install, and selected a single file to encrypt - and then pressed run. (2 mouse clicks effectively).
Toucan prompted me for a password, which I started to enter and then backspaced over. Toucan then gave me and error window WxWidgets error alert:- c:\Programming\wxWidgets.....\include\wx\strvararg.h(449) assert..... Arg tye failed in wxArgnormaliser .. format specifier doesn't match argument type"
I said "No" I didn't want to stop the program - but after saying this toucan stopped working anyway

I have Win7 Home Premium 64 Bit, 8Gb RAM, 1Tb hard drive.
G.

A feature I'm still missing in Toucan: when you sync files with 'mirror' option erased files in destination are deleted or go to recycle bin.

Is possible to add an option to send these files to a folder?
Or can I do that with resources already in toucan?

Thanks!

PS: Sorry my poor english, it´s not my native language.

Hi Steve,
Having just found your App I wondered if there was any news please on when 3.1 is planned for release and whether it will be compatible with Windows 8?

Hi Steve,

I've been using toucan for years now, I would like to request a feature I'm thinking about.

Basically I would request a feature that databases the File list, folder list, File sizes, modification times, short comparison(md5/crc32) and full comparison(md5/crc32) [the list and comparison attributes of files] of a folder. Then, a feature that can generate a "to do list" for toucan based on a comparison of an existing folder to the "database file" of a folder.

This is advantageous in my case because if I database the [list and comparison attributes of files] of my destination folder, even if my destination folder is in an external hard drive that is not currently connected, I can compare my current source folder to my destination folder (using database file). Therefore I don't need to be with my external hard drive when comparing my files (I can leave my laptop while it compares to the database, while I fetch my external hard drive in a location that is away from here--offsite backup). After fetching my hard drive (I assume the compare has finished), all I need to do is run the toucan "to do list" (which will copy/delete any file that is appropriate).

If possible, I like to request that the creation of this "database file" be an option to be automatically created when we Sync files (since in syncing files, we get the date/size/short compare etc. anyway).

I hope you get the sense of my feature request.
Thank you.