Toucan

I like the new options for syncing, but there seem to be several problems.

When syncing, if I choose mirror or clean, files that are in the source are greyed out in the destination, so they'll be deleted.

When selecting "Preview only changes", it only shows changes in the top level directory, and not files in subdirectories.

Clicking "Expand all" doesn't expand all of the directories, just some of them.

Lastly, using "copy", when I click run, it starts then it fails to copy for every file. However, Toucan 2.2.1 copies those same file without problems.

Would it be possible to add an option to specify a "trash" folder where deleted items could be moved? I think this would make this tool very powerful, because I like to backup my files daily and having an option like this could prevent those accidental deletions by just going to your "trash" folder and getting it out. Likewise it would be easy enough to manually clean your trash every week or so.

I'd love to help out on the development, I just barely have the time anymore.

Perhaps something like:

void SyncFiles::OnNotSourceDestFile(const wxString &path){


After running some tests to see if I wanted to switch over to Toucan. I think I've found a logical flaw causing a changed file to never be copied.

For example If I create a test Sync job with the settings
Function->Mirror
File Checks->File Size, Modified Time, and Short Comparison

Ok now lets say I just want to sync one file test.txt whose contents are:
this is a test file.

Now upon first run this copies the file since it is not present on the destination. Good works there.

Next I change test.txt contents to: (Note the capitalization of the t)
This is a test file.

I am on Windows 7 (64 bit) and I have Toucan 3.0.3 Pre-Release 5. I have Toucan installed on my flash drive. I am trying to set up a Sync that basically uses the Mirror option to copy the entirety of my flash drive to an arbitrary location on my hard drive (gee, it happens to be inside my local Dropbox folder).

I set up a job named "Copy to My Dropbox" and I created the source to be @drive@. When I put that as the Source, it loaded a listing of all the files on my flash drive just fine in the LEFT panel.

I seriously considered not posting this because of the inconsistent results and I don't know how helpful this will be. This applies to version 3.0.3 with the August 31 build.

I select about a dozen files in a single directory for backup. I specify a name and destination for the zip file. Type is 'complete', format is 'zip'. I click on run and any of several possible things can result:

Sometimes everything runs as expected and I end up with a zip file in the correct destination containing all of the selected files.

OK, this is partly due to my own stupidity, but I have a suggestion that for either the backup or the sync, that noobish users can use checkboxes to select the folders they want instead of doing it manually through the rules.

Can you please add dayofweek variable to variables list.
Purpose= 7days backup
And if possible “day/2 “ -> @DD/2@
Purpose= 2week backup rotation

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_pqNeubi4jLM/THYF759-pzI/AAAAAAAAC9E/XDai1IVgzBA/s8...

Right Click Issue:

I would like to report an issue with the right click function in Toucan 3.0.2 and 3.0.3 Pre-Release 2.

After creating a rule to exclude folder and selecting that rule in a sync job, I right-click on files and folders in both left and right panes but do not see the expected rule box with exclude/include selections like in Toucan 2.2.1.

I'm testing Toucan 2.2.1, 3.0.2 and 3.0.3 Pre-Release 2 on Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Operating System.

Hi All,

I've recently updated to version 3.0.2 from the 2.x series and I cant seem to figure out how to run a saved backup job that has password from the command line.

In version 2 it was toucan.exe backupJobName password password

I've looked at the lula scripting (which is great) but cant see a default way to pass the password from the command line (without user intervention).

I have worked out how to run a saved backup job with out a password fine, so it seems to be the password part that has alluded me.

Any Ideas?

Thanks
DEAP

I haven made a very simple script in Toucan:

void = sync "jobname"

If i run that script in toucan it works!

Now i make a .bat file with te following:

toucan.exe /s "scriptname"

then i get an error that said:

cannot run lua file [string "scriptname"]:1: '='expected near ''

What is wrong?