bhamguy3131
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Sweep a watch Folder and Copy to a Local FTP folder
We would like a user friendly program to sweep a watch folder every 30 seconds and copy the PDF , " Cut", over to a local FTP folder on the same subnet.
I am aware that scripting can easily do this but need something for the average user to watch , monitor and basic troubleshoot.
Would love free but , $50 ??, bucks is very tolerable.
Would greatly appreciate any suggestions, in particular , a product that has a good support desk that answers by email or even over phone .
Thank you much for your time and expertise in considering this matter.
I am aware that scripting can easily do this but need something for the average user to watch , monitor and basic troubleshoot.
Would love free but , $50 ??, bucks is very tolerable.
Would greatly appreciate any suggestions, in particular , a product that has a good support desk that answers by email or even over phone .
Thank you much for your time and expertise in considering this matter.
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use a basic script
debug will be easy : if files older than 30 seconds are found in the directory, the script did not work
if you script it trivially, any file that could not be copied for some reason will be tried again with the next run so users do not need to do anything unless the ftp server password or location is changed
in unix shell you'd do something like this
find DIRNAME | while read filename
do wput "$filename" ftp://USER:PASSWORD@HOSTNAME/path/to/dest/dir/ && rm "$filename"
done
you can easily modify this script to send an email in case of error, and/or log such information
whatever the solution, you need to make sure that the files in the drop directory are not partially written. depending on how files are written to the watch dir, this may or may not be an issue
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@Kimputer : what you are doing is forbidden on EE. there are dedicated sites for freelance jobs
debug will be easy : if files older than 30 seconds are found in the directory, the script did not work
if you script it trivially, any file that could not be copied for some reason will be tried again with the next run so users do not need to do anything unless the ftp server password or location is changed
in unix shell you'd do something like this
find DIRNAME | while read filename
do wput "$filename" ftp://USER:PASSWORD@HOSTNAME/path/to/dest/dir/ && rm "$filename"
done
you can easily modify this script to send an email in case of error, and/or log such information
whatever the solution, you need to make sure that the files in the drop directory are not partially written. depending on how files are written to the watch dir, this may or may not be an issue
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@Kimputer : what you are doing is forbidden on EE. there are dedicated sites for freelance jobs
@skullnobrains Ouch, sorry, Edit comment button is only there after you submitted, not after you return much later :(
You could do it in Robo-FTP and archive the sent files like this:
Or you could just delete the files after they are sent like this:
Note: Robo-FTP automatically verifies that the upload was successful before archiving or deleting the source file.
WORKINGDIR "c:\source\folder\"
ARCHIVEDIR "c:\sent\files\"
:send_files
FTPLOGON "192.168.1.13" /user="UserID" /pw="secret"
SENDFILE "*.pdf" /archive
FTPLOGOFF
PAUSE /for=30
GOTO send_filesOr you could just delete the files after they are sent like this:
WORKINGDIR "c:\source\folder\"
:send_files
FTPLOGON "192.168.1.13" /user="UserID" /pw="secret"
SENDFILE "*.pdf" /delete
FTPLOGOFF
PAUSE /for=30
GOTO send_filesNote: Robo-FTP automatically verifies that the upload was successful before archiving or deleting the source file.
ASKER
Bought it and it worked
That's in case of removing file after the ftp transfer is done.
If not, it needs more programming (so it won't transfer the file a second time)
Contact me if you want this program to be built: kimputer@gmail.com