Toucan

I have been using the update function in version 2.2.1 for a while now and kept using it even when V3 came out, because v3 the update function was removed. My question is why was it removed and is there a way to use the latest version to do the same as the update.

What I want to do is update the source directory to a destination but only copy the newer files to the destination and not delete anything off the destination. If the files are newer on the destination I don't want the source files to copy. Any idea's.

Given the current suspension of development work and the problem with running concurrent Toucan jobs, I've amalgamated a lot of jobs into scripts.

These currently just call sync & backup jobs and solve a few of my scheduling issues which have been leading to Toucan hanging.

I'm trying now to add a simple parameter

working = "mydir"

or

working = [[mydir]]

both simply give "5 unexpected symbol near ','"

Also expand( [[@drive@]]) gives the same error

Does anyone have an example of a working script I can follow?

Hello!

Toucan v. 3.0.4. installed fine into my Win XP standard apps software directory ("C:\Archivos de programa\Toucan"), but v. 3.10 won't, and even if I install somewhere else and then copy to "C:\Archivos de programa\Toucan", Toucan will *refuse* to run!

I´ve never had software do this before! Can we please revert this behaviour? (or at least make it optional)

Many thanks!

Cheers,

- jahman.

Hi, that has been my problem... I've been looking for information about Toucan and "missing/deleted folders" issues but I only have found old bug reports that should be, supposedly, fixed at this point. So... is there any reason for this to happen? I mean, why Destination empty folders should be deleted during any Syncing process using "Equalise" mode? When, if I understood it well, nothing should be deleted in this case according to the manual...

I have just found out about Toucan. I see that it can do synchronization and encryption, but can it do both at once. In other words, can I have an encrypted and un-encrypted folder that er being synchronized at given times (both ways)?

In more details: I want to synchronize a folder between several computers, using an online service (in my case, box.net mapped as a drive using webdav). I want to have unencrypted versions on the computers for easy and fast access, but the "syncing medium" should be encrypted. Hope it makes sense..

I love Toucan. I prefer it over synctoys, freefilesync, and all the others out there.

So when I set it up on my new Windows 8 pro 64bit laptop, I was disappointed to discover that when I close the program, it ALWAYS, without exception, throws an error: "toucan.exe has stopped working". If I click the "Close program" button, it closes fine. All syncs and backups work great, but toucan will not close properly.

This also occurs if I use toucan from the command line.

Has anyone experienced this? Have you found any work arounds?

Thanks.

As soon as I upgraded Toucan to 3.1, I found that my Sync process (that I've been doing on Toucan for two years) suddenly took almost two hours to complete. After a couple of frustrating days of this, I started watching the progress window (normally, I'd switch to another window and continue working). As I'd move my mouse, the progress would advance. If I quit moving the mouse, it would pause. So, tonight, I started just moving my mouse in circles over the progress window, and the sync completed in less than five minutes! What am I missing here?

When I run Toucan 3.1 on the command line verbose parameters such as "--job=" work OK, but I use Win Scheduler http://www.splinterware.com/products/wincron.htm to do my overnight jobs and for some reason Toucan will now only accept the terse forms such as "-j"

Toucan starts, throws up a message (but too fast to read it properly) and quits. Using the short forms seems to work.

Please note that with the Toucan 3.1 release, new development is on temporary hiatus as we seek a new developer and maintainer. As stated in the post:

1. The minus icon in rules includes/excludes does nothing. I mean the minus icon for specific includes/excludes, not for whole rules.
2. Outdated documentation. For example, it seems the Rules section refers to the previous version. Should I prefix regex with * or is it not needed anymore now that you can just choose "regex"? Does "Simple" mode support wildcards or must you use regex instead?