Free Program - SlowCopy

For those people who think their computer and network is too fast, here is a little commandline program to slowly copy a file. You typically use it to prevent hogging the network performance when copying large and/or many files.

By default it works by inserting short delays (a few milliseconds) after reading/writing a chunk of the file. Download it here.

SlowCopy [-i 0] [-b 16384] [-p 5] [-e 0] [-o[n]] source-file target-file
-i seconds
   Before doing anything, sleep this many seconds. Defaults to 0 (zero).
-b bytes
   Read/Write files this many bytes at a time. Defaults to 16384 bytes.
-p milliseconds
   Pause this many milliseconds after each write. Defaults to 5 milliseconds.
-e seconds
   Pause this many seconds after the file is copied. Defaults to 0 (zero).
-o
   Will overwrite the target-file if it exists (otherwise aborts).
-on
   Will overwrite the target-file if it exists only if source is newer.
source-file
   The file to copy.
target-file
   The new file to create. Directories are created as needed.

If SlowCopy is called using WatchDirectory you can use {Dynamic Naming} for the
target file http://www.watchdirectory.net/wdhelp/plugins/dynamicname_functions.html

Use GMail with WatchDirectory or WatchFTP

Our programs can send an email when new files are detected. A few years back most people used their own SMTP server to send email, these days webmail is growing more popular than regular SMTP servers.

WatchDirectory

For WatchDirectory you will need to use the v4.7 beta version. Earlier versions did not implement the secure SSL/TLS connections needed by SMTP services like Gmail, Yahoo and Exchange.

WatchFTP has supported those secure connections from its very first release.

Email Settings

SMTP Server:     smtp.gmail.com
Port:            465
Userid:          your gmail username (without @gmail.com)
Password:        your gmail password (but see below if you enabled 2-step verification)
SSL:             enable this option
TLS:             disable

2-step verification

If you have enabled 2-step verification on gmail, programs like WatchFTP and WatchDirectory can not login to your GMail account as they can not prompt you for your verification code. Luckily you can work-around this by creating an application specific password for those programs.

• Open GMail in your browser
• Open "Settings" (see picture)
• Open "Accounts and Import"
• Select the option "other google account settings"
• Select "Security"
• Select "Manage Access" (last button on the "Security" page)
• On the following window you can add an application specific password for WatchFTP or WatchDirectory.

Now use this password on WatchFTP or WatchDirectory's SMTP settings instead of your own GMail password.

More Info...

GMail Settings for SMTP
App specific passwords when using 2-Step verification with GMail

WatchFTP v3.5 Beta 2

A new beta for WatchFTP is available.

New in this beta

We have totally reworked the way WatchFTP detects new and changed files on your FTP site. Previously (version 3.4 and earlier) WatchFTP compared FTP files with previously downloaded files. This new v3.5 beta keeps a list of previous FTP "scans" and compares your site to this list. This gives more accurate results and also allows you to modify or remove the downloaded Windows files. It also allows you to not download the files at all (just send an email about detected changes).

More Information

For more information and download links see this forum message.

An Orange blog

Today Beatrix ("Beatrix, by the Grace of God Queen of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, etc. etc. etc."), Queen of the Netherlands, announced she will be "stepping down". Her first-born son, Willem-Alexander ("His Royal Highness Willem-Alexander , Prince of Orange, Prince of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer van Amsberg"), will be our King, Koning Willem de 4e (King William IV) Koning Willem-Alexander. This will be the first king of the Netherlands since a long time, I think since 1890. Thank you Queen Beatrix for leading our country through good and bad times. Your people love you and the Royal House of Orange. Thank you also to our new King William IV Willem-Alexander, hope you do a great job too. Our Democracy... The non-Dutch readers might not understand, but yes: The Netherlands (Holland) is a democracy. Our royal house has only ceremonial duties. There are a few relics in our constitution that give them a bit more power than some think is healthy, but we tend to trust the royal family more than our elected politicians ;-)

WatchFTP version 3.4 released

We just released version 3.4 of WatchFTP, our Automatic Download program.

New in this release

• The "filter directories" window now supports wildcards (* and ?)
• The "filter directories" window now also has an option to tell which directories to download. Previous versions only allowed you to tell which directories should NOT be downloaded.
• You can now Copy a task (Right-click the task, select Copy).
• The File menu has a new option to Create Backup of the selected task(s).
• The File menu has a new option to Restore task(s) from a backup.

Free Upgrade

This is a free upgrade for all WatchFTP customers. If you currently run version 1 or 2 you will need a new (free) license key. You can lookup your license info here.

Your disk crashes tomorrow - Do you want to know about it today?

Here is a fantastic program that only reads your disk drives, it never modifies anything (after installing). It reads the low-level S.M.A.R.T. indicators of your disks and warns you when things are about to go bad. Silently running in the background WindowSMART will alert you when your disk is about to fail!

BEFORE your disk crashes, you can get popups, emails and even notifications on your phone! Give you time to make a backup and replace the disk.

Great program, highly recommended!

A very nice discount in the comments below - make sure to read!

WatchFTP v3.4 beta

We have a beta available for version 3.4 of our automatic download tool WatchFTP.

New in this beta

• The "filter directories" window now supports wildcards (* and ?)
• The "filter directories" window now also has an option to tell which directories to download. Previous versions only allowed you to tell which directories should NOT be downloaded.
• You can now Copy a task (Right-click the task, select Copy).
• The File menu has a new option to Create Backup of the selected task(s).
• The File menu has a new option to Restore task(s) from a backup.

Download links

For the English, German, Spanish and French download links, visit our forum.

WatchFTP version 3.3.2 released

We have just released a new version of WatchFTP, our automatic download program.

• Improved: Better support for extremely long directory and file names. Previous versions were limited to approximately 255 characters in those names, this release allows far longer (~32000 characters) names.
• New: Added support for HTTP proxy when connecting through SFTP.

Download the new WatchFTP release

32-bit and 64-bit downloads are available in English, German, French and Spanish.

WatchDirectory v4.7 Beta

We have just released a first beta for WatchDirectory v4.7.

New in this Beta

• New: New implementation of System.Mail, now allowing secure connections using SSL/TLS. During the beta this new implementation is optional.
• New: The FTP component will resume the upload several times when an error occurs during the upload.
• New: When you use the {code{dllname,parameters}} dynamic name function, you can also call a batch script.

Download and more info

Please see this forum post for the download.

WatchFTP v3.3 released

We have just released a new version of WatchFTP, our automatic download program.

• Fixed: All previous WatchFTP v3 versions did not properly set and read the timestamps of downloaded files. Besides not looking "nice", this can cause problems when Daylight Saving Time ends, causing files to be downloaded again.
• New: You can now also Run a Batch file after multiple downloads are complete.
• Improved: Better compatibility with some FTP servers.

File Viking review and video on FindMySoft

I found a nice review of File Viking on the FindMySoft website, it also includes a short video.

...You can easily create several other baskets and assign any action you want to them: copy, delete, email, filter with regular expression, filter by size, filter with * and ? wildcards, convert images, create thumbnail, move, run, uncompress, upload, or ZIP. You can customize the basket you create by giving it a name, description and caption; you can also choose its color, the image it uses, the overlay placement, and the overlay icon.

The functionality File Viking has to offer integrates with the right click context menu. So instead of dragging and dropping a file onto a basket to move it, for example, you can right click it and access the copy basket from the context menu.

Read the Full Review on FindMySoft. Until the end of 2012 you can use the 33% discount-code FINDMYSOFT in our webshop if you decide to buy File Viking.

WatchFTP v3.2 released

We have just released a new version of our FTP monitoring program WatchFTP.

• Improved: When monitoring SFTP sites the speed has been improved. Previously, for each detected file, 2 redundant calls were made to the server. Those have been removed.
• New: The WatchFTP Control Center now shows what each task is doing (task status) next to the download counts. This status can be "Sleeping", "Scanning", "Downloading" or "Stopped".

Free Upgrade

This new release is a free upgrade for all WatchFTP customers. Please note that if you are currently running WatchFTP v1.x or v2.x you need a new (free) license key which you can lookup here.

Download

Download this new release from the English, German, Spanish or French website.

Installation Notes

There is no need to uninstall your current WatchFTP version, just install the new release "on top" of your current install.

If you upgrade to the 64-bit version and you are currently running a 32-bit version, read these instructions first.