Toucan 1.2 Pre-Release 6 (Testers Needed)

A few comments...

• All of the sync functions seem to be working as expected with the exception of mirror
• When the mirror function is selected it copies everything from the source to the destination even if the destination already exists and is up to date. It's seems to be doing the Copy function instead.
• When a sync has been done once and is then run again, any files in the destination directory that are set to read only fail to update [15:48:07: Error: Failed to copy the file 'H:\Sites\OPC\MyUninst.dll' to 'D:\StickBU\OPC\MyUninst.dll' (error 5: access is denied.)]
• When doing any backup the backup reaches the end, says everything is OK, and then Toucan crashes:szAppName : Toucan.exe, szAppVer : 0.0.0.0, szModName : hungapp, szModVer : 0.0.0.0, offset : 00000000
• When a backup is running several times during the backup the display will pause and then continue.

[PRE is not to be used for simple things like this, if anything it's a UL. It's only when required by structured code. Removed again. Side note: Too many people breaking page layouts with PRE, may have to ditch it from forums.]

Ok, I am no expert but here are 2 issues in the update function that should be easy to fix
1. Case Sensitivity. If I put in *.mp3 (by itself) then all files that end in .mp3 are excluded but anything ending with .MP3 or .Mp3 or .mP3 is copied
2. I am having a horrible time exluding an entire folder. I have my portable hardrive (which is the z:\ drive) and I want to NOT have a copy of my music folder but want everything else. ALL of the following entries under exclusion do NOT work.
Z:\music\
z:\Music\
Z:\Music\
Z:\music\
z:\Music\
Z:\Music\
.\music
.\Music

If I am missing something obvious, I apologize. An example in the help file would help. Might case sensitivity be the same problem in both cases?

Thanx for the great app!

Toucan 1.2 PR 2 sync function : Toucan PR2 copies files but not the subfolders.

I got PR2 installed and gave it a run.

None of the sync functions are recursing down through the folders like they did. I have a folder that contains four other folders. Each folder contains various files in them. The main folder contains 1 file. The file in the top level folder was the only one the sync updated.

I ran a backup of my stick using my saved prefs that do an incremental backup. It seemed to backup correctly.

A couple of suggestions:
1. How about a preview selection for the backup. This would let the user make sure there exclusions are working correctly before the real backup.
2. Under the Portable variables, put the built in variables in the list and set them so the user can't edit them. This would provide a quick reference to the built in ones instead of having to dig in the help for them.

Also, if you would like help on the documentation I'll be glad to help update it.

I use this all the time to sync my school work between my school lappy's hdd and thumbdrive.
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I think the file names in encrypted 7z-archives should be encrypted too. Please at least make this an option.

AES encryption seems to work fine, though quite slow, but the file lists are not refreshed afterwards.

Immediate decryption of a previously encrypted file is impossible this way, since it has been renamed and the change shows up in neither lister.

Also, is there a point in Toucan not being able to encrypt already encrypted files a second time? Multiple encryption could allow for multiple layers of security. File names could reflect multiple encryption by multiple extensions.

While playing a few days ago I popped my stick in and started a sync from a network drive to my stick. While watching the progress window everything was being deleted from my stick. I had moved the network directory earlier in the day and forgot about updating the path info in Toucan. I think if the path doesn't exist then an error needs to be flagged instead of doing a delete.

Hello,

If I select a sync profile with the following options:
Attributes=0
Preview=1
Preview is not checked. If "Preview" is checked and I load the profile, it stays checked.

There's no possibility to delete a sync profile.

Leaving "Retain attributes" unchecked with the Equalise function doesn't prevent Toucan from overwriting files if they have only the attributes as difference.

Please, could you explain the different copy functions? I'm a bit lost. The differences between Copy and Mirror(copy), Update and Mirror(update) are not obvious.

Greetings,
I am attempting to syncronise a network drive to my USB key.
I need to exclude certain subfolders, which contain either a space, or a "-"
For example I have:

data_mirror
Drop
Drop also
Drop also 2
DO-NOT-SYNC

I have tried quoting the path names, using the full path, both quoted & unquoted. In all cases, the folders are NOT excluded. Only the "data_mirror" subfolder is excluded.

Second question: I saw that regex support is being added. Is it already part of 1.2 ?

Hi,

dialog "Toucan Error" appears when running Toucan first time after installation with such messages:

Couldn't add an image to the image list.

Can't load image from file 'C:\...\view-refresh-16.png': file doesn't exist.
... package-x-generic-16.png
system-lock-screen-16.png
drive-removable-media-48-16.png
preferences-desktop-16.png

The files REALLY don't exist in the \App\Toucan\bitmap\.

Windows 2000.

LuP

I've just posted what should be the final pre-release for Steve. It fixes the path bug and removes the command window that flashed. The help files have been updated to the new theming and donation page.

This release also includes the first multilingual PortableApps.com Installer. You can selecte English, French or German and it will walk you through the process in that language and then set Toucan to use that language for you.

Please post any feedback.

I've just intalled PR5 version and - a brief note to images:

It seems there are two types of .png pictures (...).png and (...)-16.png in the installation. Both of them have 48 x 48 px size (top icons of Toucan's window).

The latter has more smoothed lines but the former seems to be used in Toucan. Compare e.g. drive-removable-media-48.png vs. drive-removable-media-48-16.png.

I think the former was intended to be used in Toucan's image list(s).

LuP

shows a somewhat small window in 1280x1028 resolution and the German text on the "variables" and "help" register doesn´t show up correct. Reducing the resolution shows normal display.

Hello,

maybe I found a typing error in the Toucans's help (but - english is not my mother tongue):

Toucan help - Sync
Sync functions
Update - Update, if there [missing "is"] file with the same...
Mirror copy ... folder removing ["and" should be deleted] and files and folders...

Another thing is that no tooltip appears on any button (Win2000), although the checkbox in Toucan's "Help + settings" is checked. If tooltip texts are not assigned, I think e.g. the text from help (...toucan/help/sync.html) should appear over an action button (Mirror/Update/Equalize etc.).

LuP