WatchFTP v3.7.5 released - Free Update

We just released a new version of our WatchFTP 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.
You can download the new version here.

New & Fixed

• The option to remove empty FTP directories did not work for some FTP servers.
• Better support for OpenVMS FTP servers.
• When a download fails halfway, WatchFTP will reconnect and try to resume the download.
• 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.

WatchDirectory v4.9.1 released - free update

We just released a new version of our Directory Monitor program WatchDirectory. This is a free update for all our customers, just download the evaluation version here and install it "on top" of your current install so it will keep all your settings and tasks.

New & Fixed

A serious issue was fixed for the Folder Size task. For some settings it didn't scan subfolders which caused wrong calculations for the total size of files.

New/improved is that you can use the $CALL$ macro to dynamically get the recipients for emails.

WatchFTP v3.7.5 beta

We have a new beta version available for our FTP Monitor Program WatchFTP.

Fixed in this beta

There is one issue fixed in this beta. If you use the option Remove the Empty FTP directory on an FTP or FTPS site (SFTP sites are not affected), WatchFTP was not able to remove directories.

Download

You can download this beta from our forum.

WatchDirectory v4.9.1 beta 1

We have a first beta for WatchDirectory v4.9.1 available on our forum.

This new beta now also allows you to use the $CALL$ macro to get the recipients of an email, see the example on the forum.

Did you know we now also have a Spanish language website? WatchDirectory's helpfiles have also been translated to Spanish.

WatchDirectory version 4.8.9 released

We just released version 4.8.9 of our folder monitoring program WatchDirectory. This is a free update if you currently have another v4.x version installed.

New & Fixed in this release

• New: Use the $CALL$ macro in email tasks to dynamically set the subject and/or body of your emails.
• Improved: If you use {dynamic naming}, the {drive} variable will now be set to the \\server\share name when monitoring a network share.
• Improved: The System.Mail (wdPostman) program has been optimized to perform better when combining large numbers of emails.
• Improved: The Upload to Amazon S3 task handles large files a lot better. It will also automatically retry several times when the http-connection is lost during a transfer.
• Improved: The Upload to S3 plugin now allows you to select the end-point of your AWS server.
• Improved: You can now import backups even while tasks are running (you can not import running tasks).
• Fixed: The WatchDirectory Control Center crashed when you didn't install the help files and tried to create a new task.
• Fixed: Inlining more than 9 images (using cid:image-root.10) in an html email did not work.

Download & Install

Download the new release here. Stop all your tasks and install this new version "on top" of your current release so it will keep all your settings and tasks.

WatchFTP v3.7.4 released

We released a new version of our FTP Monitoring program WatchFTP.

This release fixes a problem that caused WatchFTP to use the LIST command instead of the (more reliable) MLSD command to get directory listings from the FTP server.

Download / Install

You can Download the new version here. Stop all your tasks and the WatchFTP Control Center and install the new version "On Top" of your current install. There is no need to uninstall your current version first.

Call a script to set the subject of an email

The $CALL$ Macro

We just uploaded a new beta for WatchDirectory that has a very nice new feature: The $CALL$ macro which allows you to set (part of) the subject and/or body text of your emails.

This new feature allows you to call a batch script and use its "output" inside your emails.

Example: add the word "Error" to the subject when detected files contain the word "Error"

You could use the following text for the email subject:

$CALL:C:\Scripts\GetSubjectPrefix.bat$ detected file %WD_FILE_N%

The task will call the above script and will set all Environment Variables related to the detected file. Below is the GetSubjectPrefix.bat script:

rem use the FINDSTR command to look for the string Error inside the detected file
FINDSTR /I "Error" "%WD_FILE%"
IF %errorlevel% EQU 0 GOTO :ErrorFound
GOTO :ErrorNotFound

:ErrorFound
ECHO [ERROR] > "%WD_RESULTFILE%"
GOTO :EOF
:ErrorNotFound
ECHO [OK]  > "%WD_RESULTFILE%"
GOTO :EOF

Download

The download for this beta is available on our forum.

WatchDirectory v4.8.9 beta 1

A first (and likely last) beta for WatchDirectory version 4.8.9 is available.

To see what has changed and download the beta, visit this forum post: WatchDirectory v4.8.9 beta 1.

Windows 10 - Yes, our programs will run on it

Microsoft again seems to do an excellent job on compatibility. Our programs run fine on the Technical Preview for the upcoming Windows 10.

WatchFTP version 3.7.3 released

We just released a new version of our FTP Monitoring program WatchFTP. This is a free upgrade for all customers.

What's new

This version fixes an issue where the Email Action did not always close the connection to your SMTP server. Most SMTP servers will automatically close/reuse such connections but if you have a busy FTP server (a lot of emails are sent) your SMTP server could run out of connection handles.

Download / Install

You can Download the new version here. Stop all your tasks and the WatchFTP Control Center and install the new version "On Top" of your current install. There is no need to uninstall your current version first.

WatchDirectory version 4.8.8 released

We just released WatchDirectory v4.8.8, this new release has the following issues solved:

• The ZIP files task could not properly create ZIP files containing large (> 4 GB) files.
• The FTP files task sometimes ignored the text/binary setting after a reconnect to the FTP server.

Upgrade

This is a free upgrade for all customers, download the new release here. Stop all your tasks and install this new release "on top" of your current version so it will keep all your tasks and settings.

WatchFTP version 3.7.2 released

We just released a new WatchFTP version, the download is available on our download page. This is a free update for all customers, just install it "on top" of your current version.

New in this release

This release fixes an issue where (some) FTP servers do not send a "succes" reply after a very large download. Previous WatchFTP releases interpreted this as a download faillure and downloaded the file again. This new release first checks if the file has been downloaded properly.