tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87565165149490814432024-03-05T14:34:30.988+00:00WatchDirectory, WatchFTP and WxRemote newsNews, tips, tricks on our programs WatchDirectory, WatchFTP and WxRemote.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger214125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8756516514949081443.post-1947220202203712322024-02-04T14:07:00.000+00:002024-02-04T14:07:59.168+00:00WatchFTP version 4.5 released<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.watchftp.com/WatchFTP4_76x76.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="76" data-original-width="76" height="76" src="http://www.watchftp.com/WatchFTP4_76x76.png" width="76" /></a></div><p>Today, we released <a href="https://www.watchftp.com" target="_blank">WatchFTP</a> version 4.5.</p><p> </p><h2 style="text-align: left;">What's new in this release</h2>
<ul>
<li>New: WatchFTP is now compatible with the latest secure login methods (like TLS 1.3).</li>
<li>Improved: WatchFTP will reuse its FTP connections longer, less disconnect/connects.</li>
<li>Fix: Rare cases of the WatchFTP control center crashing at startup are fixed.</li>
<li>Fix: The email address you enter as the sender was ignored.</li>
</ul>
<p>This is a <b>Free Upgrade</b> for everyone who has a "version 4" license. <a href="http://www.gdpsoftware.com/en/wf-up.html">Basically everyone who bought after May 1, 2016</a>.
</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"> <br /></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8756516514949081443.post-43821399884415321142022-07-06T14:55:00.000+01:002022-07-06T14:55:47.543+01:00Fix a corrupt history database for WatchFTP<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.watchftp.com/WatchFTP4_76x76.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="76" data-original-width="76" height="76" src="http://www.watchftp.com/WatchFTP4_76x76.png" width="76" /></a></div><p>When your computer abruptly shuts down or crashes, it can happen <a href="https://www.watchftp.com" target="_blank">WatchFTP</a>'s history database becomes corrupt. Your task can not run anymore.</p><p><br /></p><p>When this has happened you will typically get a message about SQL Errors (can not select from the housekeeping table). When you start the WatchFTP control center it tries to fix this but sometimes it needs a little help.</p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">How to fix this issue</h2><div style="text-align: left;">You will need to delete the current (corrupt) database, here is how:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Open the WatchFTP Control Center</li><li>Make sure the problem task is stopped</li><li>Right-click the task and select "Explore Task Directory" from the popup menu. This will open Windows Explorer, typically inside (a subdirectory of) "<b>C:\ProgramData\WatchFTP</b>"</li><li>Make sure you are in a subdirectory with the same name of the task</li><li>Delete all files with names that start with "history", it is typically only one but there could be a few</li><li>Stop the WatchFTP Control Center and start it again, this will create a new (empty) history database</li></ul><p>After this, your task should run fine again.</p><p> </p><p>Please note this will <b>not work for WatchDirectory</b>. A future blog will explain how to fix a WatchDirectory corrupt database. <br /></p></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8756516514949081443.post-88027956400578511542022-07-01T19:43:00.001+01:002022-07-02T17:32:00.560+01:00WatchDirectory - Could not create temporary file<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjQY9eElnnUdhRGFfAsXYa600QrJzSuwTY-tnivSmbJXsImaA7csOIXgN7sWtQruzmAqJA2se9CKx2VNFDu7xTyTFnfv7qpKCf8h4zctcPBdX0RpqljrQ8am_SpkKn2RYRFZ7noJiv757s=s100-d" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="100" data-original-width="100" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjQY9eElnnUdhRGFfAsXYa600QrJzSuwTY-tnivSmbJXsImaA7csOIXgN7sWtQruzmAqJA2se9CKx2VNFDu7xTyTFnfv7qpKCf8h4zctcPBdX0RpqljrQ8am_SpkKn2RYRFZ7noJiv757s=s0-d" width="100" /></a></div>If you try to edit or create a <a href="https://www.watchdirectory.net" target="_blank">WatchDirectory</a> task and receive a message like<p></p><p>"Could not create a temporary file"</p><p>Here is the reason and how to resolve this issue.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Why this happens</h2><div style="text-align: left;">While you create or edit a task the WatchDirectory Control Center needs to store your new settings somewhere. It can not be inside the WatchDirectory settings directory itself because you may cancel editing. So WatchDirectory asks Windows what the directory for "temporary files" is.</div><div style="text-align: left;">All your changes are made to a temporary file inside that directory. When you press <b>OK</b>, the file is moved to the WatchDirectory settings directory.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The problem here is Windows tells WatchDirectory it can create temporary files in some directory (something like C:\Temp), but there is a problem. Typically the directory does not exist or (not so common) WatchDirectory is not allowed to write/create/delete files inside the directory.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><h2 style="text-align: left;">How to resolve</h2><div style="text-align: left;">Here are the steps you need to follow to fix this:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Stop the WatchDirectory Control Center</li><li>Open a Windows command prompt by running <b>cmd.exe</b></li><li>On the command prompt enter the following 2 commands<br />SET TMP<br />SET TEMP</li></ol>Those commands will respond with the name of 1 or 2 directories (they typically are the same directory). Now you need to make sure those directories exist and "Everyone" has the privilege to create/change/delete files inside them. <br /></div></div><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8756516514949081443.post-82996297584185034952021-12-14T17:01:00.002+00:002021-12-14T17:01:34.688+00:00Log4J Security threat (no worries)<img src="https://www.gdpsoftware.com/img/logo_gdp.gif" style="border-style: none; float:right; padding: 10px;">
<h2>The recent Log4j, CVE-2021-44228 security threat</h2>
<p>
Our programs do not use the Log4j package for logging. They are not written in the Java language so can not use this package.<br>
<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/12/11/guidance-for-preventing-detecting-and-hunting-for-cve-2021-44228-log4j-2-exploitation/" target="_blank">(more info on the security threat)</a>
</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8756516514949081443.post-58773226213730650592018-05-25T18:12:00.000+01:002018-05-30T09:01:21.964+01:00The new European Privacy Law (GDPR / AVG)<img src="https://www.gdpsoftware.com/img/logo_gdp.gif" style="border-style: none; float:right; padding: 10px;">
<h3>Your Privacy</h3>
<p>Ok, we need to write something to be in accordance with European laws.<br />
Here is the short version: "You're OK, we don't use your data in any way we would want our data to be used".
</p>
<h3>If you are "just a visitor" on our websites</h3>
<p>We use a third party company, used by many other companies, statcounter.com who uses cookies on our sites.
The info we get from them is which pages you visit and if you encounter any broken links.<br />
We use this information to see if our websites are working properly, we don't know who you are.
</p>
<h3>If you contact us</h3>
<p>If you use our <a href="https://www.gdpsoftware.com/contact" target="_blank">Contact Us</a> form on our company website,
we will obviously use your name/email to respond.
After that we will not store or use your name/email anymore. We don't spam.
</p>
<h3>If you are a customer</h3>
<p>Here it gets interesting.<br />
We sell our programs (mainly) through our American reseller BMT-Micro. Some sales are through other resellers, some directly with us.
In all cases we receive the information of the buyer ("you") that was entered on their website. We <b>do not receive any credit card information</b>!
</p>
<p>The information we receive include your name, email and address (street, city, country). We only use your name and email to send you your license information.
</p>
<p>When we have an important (major) update to the program you bought we send you an email. This email <b>always</b> has an option to unsubscribe, not receive those emails anymore.
You can expect an email once or twice each year.
</p>
<h3>Third Parties</h3>
<p>We do not sell or give your information to anyone. Obviously.
</p>
<h3>Ownership of this information</h3>
<p>If you want to be "forgotten", email us saying so at our <a href="https://www.gdpsoftware.com/contact" target="_blank">Contact Us</a> form. We will remove your license information (name, email, address etc) from our customer database.
Note that will also mean you won't be able to lookup your license information anymore at <a href="https://www.gdpsoftware.com/en/customer.html">this page</a>. Your license will continue to work but if you want to move it to another computer we can not help you anymore.
</p>
<h3>Questions ?</h3>
<p>If you have further questions about this, please <a href="https://www.gdpsoftware.com/contact" target="_blank">Contact Us</a>.
</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8756516514949081443.post-25905028455860674562018-01-07T11:38:00.001+00:002018-01-07T11:38:32.401+00:00WatchFTP version 4.1 Released<img src="http://www.watchftp.com/WatchFTP4_76x76.png" style="border-style: none; float:right; padding: 10px;">
<div>
<b>4.1.0 (January 7, 2018)</b>
<ul>
<li>Fixed: Connecting with new versions of WS_FTP SFTP servers failed.
</li>
<li>Improved: When you use <a href="http://www.watchftp.com/wfhelp/ftp_server_settings_en.html">Keep Session Log</a> for debugging issues, those logs could get very large.
Logs older than a few days are now zipped (and deleted after 7 days).
</li>
<li>Improved: On the <a href="http://www.watchftp.com/wfhelp/advanced_ftp_settings_en.html">Advanced Settings</a> you can now set a timeout for WatchFTP to connect,
previously WatchFTP would always abort after 20 seconds.
</li>
<li>Fixed: WatchFTP would ignore all files/directories with names starting with a ".". By default WatchFTP will still ignore those but you can now tell WatchFTP to process
those files on <a href="http://www.watchftp.com/wfhelp/advanced_ftp_settings_en.html">Advanced Settings</a>.
</li>
<li>New: Create local directories early. Older WatchFTP releases created local (Windows) directories as soon as they were detected on your FTP server.
Version 4 only creates those directories when needed (for a file to download). You can now set an option to restore the old behavior.
</li>
</ul>
<p>This is a <b>Free Upgrade</b> for everyone who has a "version 4" license. <a href="http://www.gdpsoftware.com/en/wf-up.html">Basically everyone who bought after May 1, 2016</a>.
</p>
<p>Just install this new release "on top" of your current version so it keeps all your tasks and settings.
</p>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8756516514949081443.post-12575942230150130412017-11-30T12:28:00.001+00:002017-11-30T12:37:17.728+00:0020% Discount on all our programs and upgrades<p>We didn't do anything on Cyber-monday and got complaints ;-)</p>
<h3>20% Discount on our programs during December 2017</h3>
<p>What should we name this? <b>December-Discount</b>, sounds a bit dull.
Anyway, use the discount-code <b>DECEMBER</b> in <a href="http://www.gdpsoftware.com/shop" target="_blank">our webshop</a> to get an immediate <b>20% discount</b> on new licenses for our programs.
This also applies to <a href="http://www.gdpsoftware.com/en/wf-up.html" target="_blank">Upgrades to WatchFTP version 4</a>.
</p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGR_dQqxv8goE4JwR4sxsd17acAIPZp2nKGyidgpKemQgtGsE16suGWYzO4Dr0wLCYEpIE0ihDw4OQlIAHvXUqs3k80tqihwbse6fVH3cuYzs9gzWXikARyS5FFpmfP2LHQsgdgRX8x_A/s1600/20pd.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGR_dQqxv8goE4JwR4sxsd17acAIPZp2nKGyidgpKemQgtGsE16suGWYzO4Dr0wLCYEpIE0ihDw4OQlIAHvXUqs3k80tqihwbse6fVH3cuYzs9gzWXikARyS5FFpmfP2LHQsgdgRX8x_A/s320/20pd.png" width="320" height="246" data-original-width="842" data-original-height="648" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8756516514949081443.post-37131716059949336582017-06-20T10:08:00.002+01:002017-06-20T10:08:51.043+01:00WatchFTP version 4 released - Reminder<img src="http://www.watchftp.com/WatchFTP4_76x76.png" style="border-style: none; float:right; padding: 10px;">
<p>In case you missed our newsletter or previous blogs about the new release of <a href="http://www.watchftp.com/" target="_blank">our FTP monitor program WatchFTP</a>, this quick reminder.
</p>
<ul>
<li>See what's new <a href="http://www.watchftp.com/v4.html" target="_blank">here</a></li>
<li>Owners of older (version 3) license(s), check if your <a href="http://www.gdpsoftware.com/en/wf-up.html" target="_blank">upgrade is free</a>.</li>
<li>Only 10 days left (until July 1st, 2017) until the upgrade price will be $49 per license, get it now for just $29 per license.</li>
</ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8756516514949081443.post-13316659759584871442017-06-04T18:58:00.000+01:002017-06-04T18:58:34.094+01:00WatchDirectory v4.9.5 released<img src="http://www.watchdirectory.net/img/wdl.gif" style="float: left; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; border-style: none;">
<p>We just released a new version of our <a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/" target="_blank">File System Monitor WatchDirectory</a>.
This is a free upgrade for all customers. Just install the new evaluation version "on top" of your version and it will automatically see your tasks and licenses.
</p>
<h3>New/Fixed in this release</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fixed: WatchDirectory crashed on (some) Asian language systems.</li>
<li>Improved: The new <a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/wdhelp/help/wdcc_email.html">System.Mail</a> now allows you to connect to SMTP servers without username/password.</li>
<li>Improved: The <a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/wdhelp/plugins/wdopPrintPDF.html">Print PDF</a> task has several new settings.</li>
<li>Fixed: The email reports of the <a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/wdhelp/plugins/wdopAuditInfo.html">Audit</a> task weren't properly sent at 6am.</li>
<li>Fixed: Large file uploads by the <a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/wdhelp/plugins/wdopAutoFtp.html">FTP</a> task didn't properly report their progress.</li>
<li>Improved: The <a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/wdhelp/plugins/wdopAutoUnzip.html">Unzip</a> task now supports password protected zips.</li>
</ul>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8756516514949081443.post-61606373743278404432017-05-26T08:27:00.000+01:002017-05-26T08:27:34.861+01:00WatchFTP v4.0.2 released<img src="http://www.watchftp.com/WatchFTP4_76x76.png" style="border-style: none; float:right; padding: 10px;">
<p>Just to let you know we released an important update for <a href="http://www.watchftp.com/">WatchFTP</a>.
</p>
<h3>Fixed</h3>
<p>In some cases (mostly when connecting to an SFTP server), WatchFTP failed to connect to the server. This has been fixed.
</p>
<h3>Download</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.watchftp.com/download.html">Download this new release here</a>. Install it "on top" of your current version so it will keep your settings and tasks.
</p>
<h3>Buy</h3>
<p>When you are ready to buy, <a href="http://www.gdpsoftware.com/en/shop.html?from=wf">visit our webshop</a> to get a license. If you already own
a previous version, your upgrade may be free, see <a href="http://www.gdpsoftware.com/en/wf-up.html">Upgrade to WatchFTP v4</a>
</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8756516514949081443.post-69053504048219867352017-05-07T05:42:00.001+01:002017-05-07T05:51:33.720+01:00WatchFTP version 4 released<img src="http://www.watchftp.com/WatchFTP4_76x76.png" style="border-style: none; float:right; padding: 10px;">
<h3>New in this major WatchFTP version 4 release</h3>
<table>
<tr>
<td><b>Private Key Support</b>
</td>
<td> </td>
<td>Use a Private Key (PuTTY or OpenSSH format) to login on SFTP sites.
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.watchftp.com/yabbfiles/Attachments/pk.png">
<img src="http://www.watchftp.com/yabbfiles/Attachments/pk.png" width="300" />
</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Dynamic Naming</b>
</td>
<td> </td>
<td>You now have full control which name/location is used for downloaded files.
For example, download to<br />
C:\Down\{dt-yyyy}\{dt-mm}\{dt-dd}\{filename}
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.watchftp.com/yabbfiles/Attachments/dn.png">
<img src="http://www.watchftp.com/yabbfiles/Attachments/dn.png" width="300" />
</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Multithreaded Downloads</b>
</td>
<td> </td>
<td>WatchFTP can now download multiple files concurrently.
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.watchftp.com/yabbfiles/Attachments/mt.png">
<img src="http://www.watchftp.com/yabbfiles/Attachments/mt.png" width="300" />
</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Task Groups</b>
</td>
<td> </td>
<td>There is a new menu that allows you to show "All Tasks (Ctrl+0)", "Running Tasks (Ctrl+1)" or "Stopped Tasks (Ctrl+2)".<br />
Create your own task groups if you have a lot of tasks.
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.watchftp.com/yabbfiles/Attachments/tg.png">
<img src="http://www.watchftp.com/yabbfiles/Attachments/tg.png" width="300" />
</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>...and a lot more...</b>
</td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan="2">Support for the latest encryptions on secure connections.<br />
The Email Action can now email different people depending on the location of detected files.<br />
Lots of small other improvements...
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h3>Download</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.watchftp.com/download.html">Download this new release here</a>. Install it "on top" of your current version so it will keep your settings and tasks.
You can try WatchFTP free for 30 days.
</p>
<h3>Buy</h3>
<p>When you are ready to buy, <a href="http://www.gdpsoftware.com/en/shop.html?from=wf">visit our webshop</a> to get a license. If you already own
a previous version, your upgrade may be free, see <a href="http://www.gdpsoftware.com/en/wf-up.html">Upgrade to WatchFTP v4</a>.
</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8756516514949081443.post-77963545112686175412017-04-22T07:32:00.001+01:002017-04-22T07:32:30.721+01:00WatchFTP v4 final beta<img src="http://www.gdpsoftware.com/img/wf.png" style="border-style: none; float:right; padding: 10px;">
<p>On our forum we have uploaded the last beta for the new major release of <a href="http://www.watchftp.com/" target="_blank">WatchFTP</a>.
</p>
<h3>New in version 4</h3>
<ul>
<li>Private key support for SFTP connections.</li>
<li>Task Groups - This will come in handy if you run a lot of tasks.</li>
<li>Dynamic Naming for downloaded files - for example download your files to C:\Downloads\{filetitle}_{dt:year}{dt:month}{dt:day}.{extension}</li>
<li>Support for the latest encryption algorythms on secure connections.</li>
<li>Multithreaded downloads - download several files at once.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Download</h3>
<p>Visit the <a href="http://www.watchftp.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?board=Beta" target="_blank">Beta Forum</a> for the download and more information.
</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8756516514949081443.post-15547050386378660062017-01-06T06:49:00.000+00:002017-01-06T06:49:16.162+00:00WatchFTP 3.8.0 released - Free Upgrade<img src="http://www.gdpsoftware.com/img/wf.png" style="border-style: none; float:right; padding: 10px;">
<p>We just released a new version of our <a href="http://www.watchftp.com/" target="_blank">FTP Monitor Program WatchFTP</a>.
If you already own a license, this is a free upgrade. Just install the new version "on top" of your current install.
</p>
<h3>What's New</h3>
<p>If you use a secure connection to your FTP site <b>and</b> use Passive mode to connect (the default), you can now enable the new option "Force Host IP".
Here the explanation from the WatchFTP help file:
</p>
<p>When you use a secure connection all commands and responses between WatchFTP and the FTP server are encrypted. When the FTP server is behind a NAT router, the router can not translate the internal IP addresses (typically 192.168....) to externally accessible IP addresses so they remain unchanged in the FTP response lines to WatchFTP.<br />
When this option is set, WatchFTP will ignore the (unaccessible) IP addresses in the server's responses and always uses the IP address of the FTP server itself.
</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8756516514949081443.post-42666631679919379532016-08-19T07:22:00.001+01:002016-08-19T07:22:38.328+01:00WxRemote version 1.9.2 released (free update)<img src="http://www.gdpsoftware.com/img/wx.png" style="border-style: none; float: left; padding: 10px;">
<p>We just released a new version of our program <a href="http://www.gdpsoftware.com/en/wxtools/index.html" target="_blank">WxRemote</a>, our program to remotely control your WatchDirectory and WatchFTP tasks. We highly recommend you install this free update.
</p>
<h3>Fixed in this release</h3>
<p>There was a memory leak in the WxConnectionManager and WxListener components. This leak would only show if you had logging disabled. Furthermore, "Check for Updates" did not work properly.
</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gdpsoftware.com/en/wxtools/index.html" target="_blank">Download the new release here</a>.
</p>
<h3>30% Discount</h3>
<p>For a limited time, until the end of September, you can buy WxRemote with a 30% discount. Use the discount-code <b>WXPROMO</b> in our webshop.
</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8756516514949081443.post-13646209905736766352016-07-21T10:34:00.001+01:002016-07-21T10:34:45.214+01:00WatchDirectory v4.9.4 released<img src="http://www.watchdirectory.net/img/wdl.gif" style="float: left; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; border-style: none;">
<p>We just released another <b>free update</b> for our program <a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/" target="_blank">WatchDirectory</a>.
To update, download the evaluation version from our website, stop all your tasks and install this new release "on top" of your current install. That way, all your settings, license info and tasks are kept.
</p>
<h3>New in this release</h3>
<ul>
<li>Improved: Updated the supported encryption methods for the <a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/wdhelp/plugins/wdopAutoFtp.html" target="_blank">FTP Upload plugin</a>.</li>
<li>Improved: When you let the <a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/wdhelp/plugins/wdopAutoEmail.html" target="_blank">Email task</a> combine multiple emails, there is a new setting to prevent the same file being attached multiple times.</li>
<li>Improved: The <a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/wdhelp/plugins/wdopPrintPDF.html" target="_blank">Print PDF</a> task has a new option to set the print orientation (Portrait or Landscape).</li>
</ul>
<p>The installer now uses a new so called SHA256 code signing certificate. Our older installers used a so-called SHA1 certificate.
Older Windows versions (for example Windows XP) do not recognize the new certificate and may give you a warning that the certificate is corrupt. You can safely ignore that message.
</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8756516514949081443.post-26523711072846560622016-05-11T17:49:00.001+01:002016-05-11T17:49:53.459+01:00Email alert for empty folders<img src="http://www.watchdirectory.net/img/wdl.gif" style="float: left; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; border-style: none;">
<p>A customer asked how he can setup <a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/" target="_blank">our program WatchDirectory</a>
to notify him when a folder is created and no files are present after a few hours.<br />
WatchDirectory is typically used to detect new files or folders so this requires a little scripting to get right.
</p>
<h3>Setup the Email task</h3>
<p>Create a new task based upon the <a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/wdhelp/plugins/wdopAutoEmail.html" target="_blank">Email Plugin</a>.
Use something like "Folder %WD_FILE_N% is empty after 2 hours" as the subject and "%WD_FILE% is empty" somewhere inside the email body.<br />
%WD_FILE% is replaced with the full path (C:\Some\Folder) of the new directory, WD_FILE_N by the directory name without its path (just "Folder").
See <a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/wdhelp/plugins/wdopAutoRunBatEnv.html" target="_blank">Variables</a> for all variables you can use.
</p>
<p>For the <a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/wdhelp/help/wdnewconfigpage3.html" target="_blank">Monitoring Method</a> select File Age,
let it trigger for files (it also does directories) older than 120 minutes. Make sure to check the option "Remember triggered files"
unless you want to receive multiple alerts as the folder gets older and older.
</p>
<p>On <a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/wdhelp/help/wdnewconfigpage4.html" target="_blank">Events</a> only select "DIRNEW" - to detect folders, we are not interested in files.
</p>
<h3>The Script that actually checks for empty folders</h3>
<p>WatchDirectory can not do everything for everyone just by installing but it has amazing ways how you can customize its functionality with little scripts.
In this case the customer wants to receive a notification when a folder is empty after X hours, something not directly supported ("build in") by WatchDirectory.
</p>
<p>On <a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/wdhelp/help/filter_events.html" target="_blank">Filter Events</a> you can add several standard filters
to prevent triggering the WatchDirectory task (for example, the file or directory must match "Customer_*.txt"), for this case we need a filter script (a .bat file).<br />
Here is the script to use in this case:
</p>
<pre style="color: white; background-color: black; width: 100%;">rem filter script that checks if a detected "new" directory is empty
rem "new" in quotes because WatchDirectory triggers using the File Age
rem monitoring method for directories that are 2 hours old.
rem When the directory is empty, the task should trigger an email.
rem If the directory contains one or more files, no email should be sent.
rem %WD_...% variables are explained here:
rem http://www.watchdirectory.net/wdhelp/plugins/wdopAutoRunBatEnv.html
rem File Age Monitoring:
rem http://www.watchdirectory.net/wdhelp/help/wdnewconfigpage3.html
rem Filter Scripts:
rem http://www.watchdirectory.net/wdhelp/help/filter_events.html
IF "%WD_REASON%" NEQ "DIRNEW" GoTo :NoTrigger
SET NUMFILE=0
FOR %%c IN ("%WD_FILE%\*.*") DO Call :FoundFile
IF %NUMFILE% EQU 0 GOTO :Trigger
GOTO :NoTrigger
:FoundFile
SET /A NUMFILE=NUMFILE + 1
GOTO :EOF
:Trigger
ECHO Y > "%WD_FILTERRESULT%"
GOTO :EOF
:NoTrigger
ECHO N > "%WD_FILTERRESULT%"
GOTO :EOF
</pre>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8756516514949081443.post-9542151256065448792016-02-19T09:44:00.000+00:002016-02-19T09:44:17.055+00:00WatchFTP v3.7.9 released - Free Upgrade<img src="http://www.gdpsoftware.com/img/wf.png" style="border-style: none; float:right; padding: 10px;">
<p>We have just released a new version of <a href="http://www.watchftp.com/" target="_blank">WatchFTP</a>, our FTP monitor.
This is a <b>free upgrade</b> for all customers who own a WatchFTP license. Just install this release "on top" of your current version so it will keep all settings and tasks.
</p>
<h3>What's new?</h3>
<p>This releases fixes an obscure problem when you connect using a "strange" password. With "strange" meaning characters not found in the typical ANSI (a-z,A-Z,0-9) character set. If your FTP server supports the UTF-8 character set, WatchFTP would first connect using ANSI but switch to UTF-8 after this initial connect. When WatchFTP needed to re-connect again, it tried to do so using UTF-8, an encoding your FTP server doesn't expect for new connections.<br />
On the "Advanced Settings" window you can now enter the character set to use while connecting, it will default to ANSI.
</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8756516514949081443.post-91657743401345903902016-02-11T18:48:00.000+00:002016-02-11T18:54:30.616+00:00WatchDirectory v4.9.4 beta 1 - TLS 1.2 support<img src="http://www.watchdirectory.net/img/wdl.gif" style="float: left; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; border-style: none;">
<p>On our <a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/cgi-bin/yabb25/YaBB.pl?num=1455211978" target="_blank">forum</a> we have a first beta for WatchDirectory v4.9.4 available.
</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/wdhelp/plugins/wdopAutoFtp.html" target="_blank">FTP Upload task</a> now supports the <b>TLS 1.2</b> protocol for secure connections. Download the beta from the forum link above.
</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8756516514949081443.post-5319327580236401952015-12-16T08:48:00.000+00:002015-12-16T08:48:53.454+00:00WatchDirectory v4.9.3.E released<img src="http://www.watchdirectory.net/img/wdl.gif" style="float: left; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; border-style: none;">
<p>A week ago we released version 4.9.3 of <a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/" target="_blank">WatchDirectory</a>. The last few days we released a few "micro updates" with small fixes and enhancements. Those micro updates do not show when WatchDirectory performs a "check for updates" so if you installed version 4.9.3 when it was released, you may want to install the current update (released today).
</p>
<h3>New since version 4.9.2</h3>
<ul>
<li>The new <a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/wdhelp/plugins/wdopPrintPDF.html" target="_blank">Print Pdf plugin</a> has a new option to control how documents are resized (or not).</li>
<li><a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/wdhelp/plugins/dynamicname_functions.html">Dynamic Naming</a> did not work properly for the new Print Pdf plugin.</li>
<li>The Print Pdf plugin does not add "GdP Software PrintPDF" to document names anymore.</li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/wdhelp/plugins/wdopAutoZip.html" target="_blank">Auto ZIP</a> plugin will retry after 10 seconds if one of the files to be zipped is locked.</li>
<li>Some (harmless) debugging code removed from Print PDF.</li>
<li>On some systems the "Auto Repair" of the history database did not work, the new release fixes this.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Download / Install</h3>
<p>
<a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/download.html" target="_blank">Download the current release here</a>. Stop all your tasks and install this new release "on top" of your current installed version so it will keep all your settings and tasks.
</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8756516514949081443.post-2466691561601479222015-11-26T11:09:00.000+00:002015-11-26T11:09:41.330+00:00WatchFTP v3.7.8 released, free update<img src="http://www.gdpsoftware.com/img/wf.png" style="border-style: none; float:right; padding: 10px;">
<p>We just released a small update for our <a href="http://www.watchftp.com/" target="_blank">FTP File Monitor WatchFTP</a>. This is a free update for all customers, just install the current evaluation version "on top" of your install so it keeps your settings and tasks.
</p>
<p>This release fixes an issue that caused the WatchFTP Control Center to crash when you try to import a task with an accented name.
</p>
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<p>We just released version 4.9.2 of our <a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/" target="_blank">File Monitoring Program WatchDirectory</a>.
</p>
<h3>New / Changed in this release</h3>
<p>A new plugin has been added so WatchDirectory can now <a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/wdhelp/plugins/wdopPrintPDF.html" target="_blank">print PDF files directly</a> without need for Acrobat or Foxit Reader. This works more reliable, faster and is easier to setup.
</p>
<p>If you use <a href="http://www.gdpsoftware.com/en/wxtools/help/wxconfig_en.html" target="_blank">WxRemote's "Last Message"</a> option, WatchDirectory used a very inefficient method to write those LastMessage files. This has been fixed.
</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/wdhelp/plugins/wdopAutoEmail.html" target="_blank">Email Task</a> can now request a read receipt. Note that this depends on the receiver's email client if those receipts will be sent.
</p>
<p>When a task starts and it finds that its history database is corrupt, it will automatically repair this database.
</p>
<h3>Download / Install</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/download.html" target="_blank">Download the current release here</a>. Stop all your tasks and install this new release "on top" of your current installed version so it will keep all your settings and tasks.
</p>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8756516514949081443.post-80457352856327188622015-10-18T07:30:00.000+01:002015-10-18T07:30:11.353+01:00WatchFTP version 3.7.7 released, recommended update<img src="http://www.gdpsoftware.com/img/wf.png" style="border-style: none; float:right; padding: 10px;">
<p>Today we released a new version of our <a href="http://www.watchftp.com/" target="_blank">FTP Monitoring program</a> WatchFTP.
</p>
<h3>New in this release</h3>
<p>When <a href="http://www.watchftp.com/wfhelp/ftp_server_settings_en.html" target="_blank">"Keep FTP Session Log"</a>
and/or <a href="http://www.gdpsoftware.com/en/wxtools/help/wxconfig_en.html" target="_blank">WxRemote's "Last Message"</a>
support is enabled, WatchFTP was using a lot of CPU causing the task to run very slow.
This has been fixed and tasks run a lot faster now.
</p>
<h3>Download / Install</h3>
<p>You can <a href="http://www.watchftp.com/download.html" target="_blank">Download the latest release here</a>.
This is a free upgrade for all customers. Just install this new release "on top" of your current version so your tasks and settings are preserved.
</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8756516514949081443.post-78680070863230181422015-10-12T12:50:00.000+01:002015-10-19T06:44:17.463+01:00WatchDirectory v4.9.2 beta - Print PDF Files<img src="http://www.watchdirectory.net/img/wdl.gif" style="float: left; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; border-style: none;">
<p>You can now download a new beta version of WatchDirectory.</p>
<h3>New in this beta version</h3>
<p>This new beta includes a native plugin to print PDF files. Previously WD printed PDF files by calling Acrobat Reader of Foxit Reader to do the actual printing. This new plugin should be more reliable and work faster.</p>
<p>This release also checks to see if the history database is corrupt. The typical reason why it becomes corrupt is a power failure or a forced Windows shutdown. When a task is starting and it finds a corrupt database it will auto-repair it.</p>
<h3>Download / Install</h3>
<p>See <a href="http://www.watchdirectory.net/cgi-bin/yabb25/YaBB.pl?num=1444650025/0#0" target="_blank">this forum post</a> for download and install information.
</p>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8756516514949081443.post-49078293792476324182015-08-02T13:01:00.000+01:002015-08-02T13:01:14.310+01:00WatchFTP version 3.7.6 released<img src="http://www.gdpsoftware.com/img/wf.png" style="border-style: none; float:right; padding: 10px;">
<p>Just released, version 3.7.6 or our <a href="http://www.watchftp.com/" target="_blank">FTP Monitor program WatchFTP</a>. This free upgrade fixes a few important issues that could let your tasks crash.
</p>
<h3>Fixed in this release</h3>
<ul>
<li>When you enter a wrong date or time format for the <a href="http://www.watchftp.com/wfhelp/send_email_en.html" target= "_blank">Email Action</a>, the task crashed.</li>
<li>Tasks could hang upon computer shutdown, causing Windows to abort the task, causing corrupted task settings and history.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Upgrade</h3>
<p>This is a free upgrade for all customers, just <a href="http://www.watchftp.com/download.html" target="_blank">download & install</a> the new release after stopping all your tasks. If you install in the same directory as your current release, it will keep all your tasks and settings.
</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8756516514949081443.post-45685287434153678112015-05-18T05:39:00.001+01:002015-05-18T05:39:18.502+01:00WatchFTP v3.7.5 released - Free Update<img src="http://www.gdpsoftware.com/img/wf.png" style="border-style: none; float:right; padding: 10px;">
<p>We just released a new version of our <a href="http://www.watchftp.com/" target="_blank">WatchFTP</a> program. This is a free update for our customers, just install this new version "on top" of your current WatchFTP install so it will keep its settings and tasks.<br />
You can <a href="http://www.watchftp.com/download.html" target="_blank">download the new version here</a>.
</p>
<h3>New & Fixed</h3>
<ul>
<li>The option to remove empty FTP directories did not work for some FTP servers.</li>
<li>Better support for OpenVMS FTP servers.</li>
<li>When a download fails halfway, WatchFTP will reconnect and try to resume the download.</li>
<li>When you have a task that deletes FTP files after several hours and the file is downloaded a second time (because it has changed), the delete will be delayed again.</li>
</ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0