Toucan

I started giving Toucan a try and I'm starting to really like it a lot. The only issue I have right now is that there is no preview of what will happen before you tell the program to do it.

Like I have two drives with MP3s, one being a backup drive, and I want to mirror the music directory from one drive to the backup drive that already has a 4 month old copy. I would like to see a detailed log of what the program is going to do before I just start trusting 200GB of MP3s to this program.

It looks like the new Toucan (2.1.0) continues to try to process a file that it was unable to open, leading to the following log entries. Also, the log entries on the failed fseek and stat calls make it look like it was successful, which is misleading (thanks Microsoft and your weird WIN32 status codes.) I think in this case that the first error message is enough.

It would also be nice to do something to highlight error messages. I have less than computer savvy people running sync jobs (long story.) and colors or something would make it easier to understand the log files quickly.

I think I found a small bug when you choose the "Remeber Entered Information" for "Sync".

Yes, when you restart Toucan it will load the last job you had chosen in Sync, but the "Job Name" is empty even though it has loaded up one of the jobs.

Not a big bug, but confusing for my fellow newbie friends.

Hello,

Hi there,

I use regularly Toucan for saving my data files and it works fine.

However, when I do a mirror of a very big folder (one folder containing many files -- around 30 Go of .mp3 in a unique folder), Toucan fails to succed and it crashes before ending the process. I don't know if it's a bug or a inherent limit of the program. Just felt it could be usefull to tell about it.

I'm having trouble adding a folder (and its subfolders) with @ in it's name as either source or destination. It goes fine to add a parent folder and browse though. Could this be a bug?

Hi Everyone,

I've an issue regarding the preview function in the "mirror (update)" mode. When I want to preview what toucan want's to copy on my stick. I get the Windows message "Toucan.exe hat ein Problem festgestellt und muß beendet werden."

Interesting is: Synchronizing the folders is working.

Do you've any hint's for me?

Best Regards
Bifo

Is there an option to exclude junction points from synchronisation/backup? Otherwise there are allways duplicates, if you don't manually exclude every single folder.
Would be a nice feature...

greetz

How do I uninstall Toucan?

If you have made a backup (and set "Backup location" to a zip-archive like "Jan.zip") and then wants to make a "Differential" backup, the process fails.
You get this information:

Starting...

Time: 07:28:56

Creating file list, this may take some time.

7-Zip (A) 4.65  Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov  2009-02-03
Scanning

Creating archive D:\Jan.zip\BaseFile.zip 

Compressing  treeinfo.wc

Error:
move file error
D:\BaseFile.zip .tmp1
D:\Jan.zip\BaseFile.zip 
The system cannot find the path specified.

System error:
Unspecified error

Time: 07:29:16