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30 Mai 2017
4.9.5
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- Correction: WatchDirectory plantait parfois dans certains langages systèmes Asiatiques.
- Improved: Le nouveau module Mail System.Mail vous permet maintenant de vous connecter sur les serveurs SMTP sans utilisateur/mot de passe.
- Amélioration: La tâche d’impression PDF permet quelques nouveaux paramètres de configuration.
- Correction: Les rapports d’email pour la tâche d’Audit n’étaient pas envoyés correctement à 6h le matin.
- Correction: La tâche d’envoi de gros fichiers par FTP ne donnait pas la bonne progression.
- Amélioration: La tâche de décompression Unzip supporte maintenant les fichiers zip protégés par mot de passe.
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19 Juillet 2016
4.9.4
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- Amélioration: Mise à jour du support des méthodes d'encryptage pour l'extension Transfert FTP.
- Amélioration: Lorsque vous laissez la tâche Email combiner plusieurs emails, il y a un nouveau paramétrage pour éviter qu'un même fichier ne soit attaché plusieurs fois.
- Amélioration: La tâche Imprimer un PDF a une nouvelle option pour indiquer l'orientation d'impression (Portrait ou Paysage).
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10 Décembre 2015
4.9.3
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- Amélioration : La nouvelle extension Imprimer un pdf a une nouvelle option permettant de contrôler comment les documents sont retaillés (ou pas)
- Correction : Le nommage dynamique ne fonctionnait pas correctement pour la nouvelle extension Imprimer un pdf.
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25 Octobre 2015
4.9.2
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- Nouveauté: Une nouvelle extension pour Imprimer des fichiers PDF.
- Amélioration: Lorsqu'une tâche est démarrée et que son historique est corrompu, la tâche tentera automatiquement de réparer la base de l'historique.
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3 Mai 2015
4.9.1
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- Correction : l'extension Taille du dossier ignorait les sous-répertoires.
- Amélioration de la macro $CALL$, elle peut être utilisé pour obtenir les destinataires d'un email.
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28 Mars 2015
4.9.0
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- Nouveauté : L'aide en ligne est maintenant également disponible en espagnol.
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5 Février 2015
4.8.9
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- Nouveauté : Utilisez la macro $CALL$ dans les tâches envoi de mail pour indiquer dynamiquement le sujet et/ou le corps de vos emails.
- Amélioration : si vous utilisez le {nommage dynamique}, la variable {drive} est maintenant égale au nom UNC \\server\share lorsqu'il surveille un partage réseau.
- Amélioration : Le programme d'envoi de mails System.Mail (wdPostman) a été optimisé pour combiner plus efficacement les gros envois de mails.
- Amélioration : La tâche de Transfert vers Amazon S3 prend en compte les gros fichiers d'une bien meilleure façon. Il retentera automatiquement plusieurs fois lorsque la connexion http est perdu pendant un transfert.
- Amélioration : l'extension transfert vers S3 vous permet de choisir votre serveur AWS.
- Amélioration : Vous pouvez maintenant importer une sauvegarde même si des tâches sont en cours (vous ne pouvez pas importer la tâche qui est en cours).
- Correction : Le Centre de Contrôle WatchDirectory plantait si vous n'installiez pas les fichiers d'aide en ligne et que vous tentiez de créer une nouvelle tâche.
- Correction : intégrer plus de 9 images dans un email html ne fonctionnait pas (en utilisant cid:image-root.10).
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14 Septembre 2014
4.8.8
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- Correction : la tâche FTP ne forçait pas le mode texte/binaire pour les transferts après une reconnexion au serveur.
- Correction : la tâche compression Zip ne compressait pas correctement les gros fichiers (plus de 4GO).
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6 Avril 2014
4.8.7
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- Amélioration: Lorsque WatchDirectory détecte un fichier interdit ou un nom de répertoire (par exemple un nom de fichier Macintosh), WatchDirectory utilisera le nom court au format 8.3 au lieu d'abandonner.
- Correction: La nouvelle implémentation d'email ne créait pas correctement les emails au format HTML (les images intégéres ne fonctionnaient pas).
- Amélioration: La tâche de transfert ne tentera pas de transférer de nouveau les transferts, il s'agit maintenant d'une option que vous pouvez modifier.
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2 Mars 2014
4.8.6
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- Correction: Le nouvel affichage rapide de l'historique ne montrait pas tous les messages dans le bon ordre.
- Amélioration: une boite de "recherche" a été ajouté dans la fenêtre d'historique rapide.
- Correction: L'extension Transfert ne vérifiait pas correctement la bonne connexion au serveur FTP lors du premier fichier d'une session.
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16 Février 2014
4.8.5
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- Nouveauté: lorsque vous utilisez la nouvelle version 1.9 de WxRemote, WatchDirectory peut envoyer les derniers messages (d'activité) vers WxRemote.
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20 Janvier 2014
4.7.3
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- Correction: dans certains rares cas, la tâche de transfert FTP ne transférait pas le fichier détecté.
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29 Décembre 2013
version 4.7.1
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- Nouveauté: une nouvelle implémentation du composant System.mail qui permet une connexion SMTP sécurisée (SSL ou TLS).
En cas de problèmes de compatibilité, vous pouvez toujours utiliser l'implémentation de l'ancienne version (v4.6 et avant).
- Nouveauté: La fonction dynamique {code{dllname,parameters}} vous permet maintenant d'appeler un script de commandes
- Nouveauté: les balises {isoweek} et {isoyearweek}.
- Nouveauté: Un extension pour transférer automatiquement vers le service Amazon S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service).
- Nouveauté: Un nouvelle version du suivi des tâches plus simple. La version d'origine est toujours incluse, vous pouvez choisir le suivi des tâches que vous souhaitez dans les options.
- Amélioration: La tâche de Copie propose 2 options avancées: "Slow Copy" ("Copie lente") pour éviter toute surcharge réseau et "Paranoid Copy" ("Copie Parano") qui vérifie chaque bit après la copie.
- Amélioration: L'extension FTP reprend automatiquement le transfert lorsqu'il est interrompu.
- Correction: meilleur support de Win2000 et Win2003
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15 Septembre 2012
4.6.7B
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- Résolution: La tâche de transfert FTP pouvait se bloquer ou utiliser trop de CPU.
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5 août 2012
4.6.7
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- Amélioration: en utilisant le planificateur, les évenements silencieux n'étaient pas gérés correctement.
- Nouveauté: La tâche transfert FTP a une nouvelle option "Strict" pour les connexions en mode passif. Ceci est utile quand le serveur FTP ment (!!) à propos de son adresse IP dans la réponse à la commande PASV.
- Amélioration: Petites améliorations dans le composant ZIP.évitant un plantage en cas de nom de fichier incorrect.
- Nouveauté: support du format UTF-8 pour le composant email. C'est maintenant le nouvel encodage par défaut pour une nouvelle tâche d'email.
- Amélioration: Implémentation du mode CCC "Clear Command Channel" pour le protocole FTPS
- Correction: La Tâche Transférer un Fichier tentera de nouveau de se connecter
s'il reçoit une erreur 40425.
- Correction: La Variale d'Environnement WD_FILE_E n'était pas correctement renseignée pour les fichiers sans extensions
- Correction: WatchDirectory plantait (ou simplement ne fonctionnait pas) sur Vista et Windows-7 s'il n'était pas lancé par un Administrateur
- Amélioration: Le Centre de Contrôle WatchDirectory est plus efficace (utilisation cpu et mémoire)
- Nouveauté: Filtrer les événements peut maintenant également se faire avec des scripts de filtres pour des situation compliquées.
- Nouveauté: Une nouvelle extension pour Renommer ou Supprimer les vieux fichiers d'un répertoire: Utilisez la pour supprimer les vieux fichiers LOG en ne conservant que les 10 plus récents.
- Correction: La Tâche qui Transfére des fichiers vers un serveur FTP envoyait de fausses emails d'avertissement lors du renommage des fichiers.
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9 juin 2011
4.6.6
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- Correction: L'encodage "Quoted/8859" des emails n'encodait pas le sujet des emails.
Ceci provoquait des caractères indésirables dans le sujet des emails lorsque des caractères spéciaux
étaient utilisés (comme ¨, ç et ß)
- Correction: La tâche de transfert pouvait parfois se figer lorsque la connexion au serveur FTP ne se faisait pas correctement.
- Modification: Toutes les restrictions pour les machines virtuelles sont enlevées de la version d'évaluation.
- Nouveauté: Une nouvellle Fonction de Nommage Dynamique: {random{mini,maxi}} pour obtenir un nombre aléatoire (par exemple {random{1,10}} retrounera un nombre entre 1 et 10 inclus).
- Nouveauté: L' Extension Audit peut maintenant purger automatiquement les rapports d'audit vieux de plus de 7 jours.
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9 Janvier 2011
4.6.5
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- Nouveauté: Les services WatchDirectory utilisent maintenant le "délai de chargement" pour les systèmes qui le supporte.
- Nouveauté: Cacher une tâche du gestionnaire distant WxRemote.
- Nouveauté: L'extension Taille du dossier vous permet de choisir à quel moment envoyer l'email.
- Correction: Les Tâches qui créent des répertoires les créaient sans aucune permission. Maintenant ces répertoires sont créés avec les permissions par défaut.
- Correction: Le Centre de Contrôle et les Tâches avaient d'importantes lenteuurs sur certains systèmes à base de contrôleurs RAID Intel.
- Correction: Les Tâches n'écriront plus dans le gestionnaires d'événements Windows.
- Correction: Les méthodes de surveillance planifiée et selon l'âge du fichier ne réveilleront plus l'ordinateur.
- Correction: La Tâche de transfert a été améliorée et ne manipule plus de connexions fermées.
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le 26 Mai 2010
4.6.3 Beta 2
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- Problème résolu: La Tâche Copie ignorait le paramétrage "Supprimer le Répertoire" lorsqu'il était associé avec l'option "gérer comme un déplacement".
- Problème résolu: La Tâche Envoyer un Email écrit maintenant une alerte si le fichier joint à attacher ne peut pas être attaché depuis un lecteur réseau.
- Problème résolu: Lorsque les Emails étaient regroupés, seul le premier nom de fichier attaché @@@filename@@@ était pris en compte.
- Problème résolu: La Tâche Publier ne créait pas les nouveaux répertoires en cas d'utilisation du nommage dynamique.
- Problème résolu : La tâche Transférer/Publier tentera d'abord de supprimer le fichier cible avant de renommer le fichier téléchargé '.partial'.
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March 22, 2010
4.6.2/2
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- Fixed: The ZIP task did not store paths anymore.
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March 14, 2010
4.6.2
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- New: Print PDF files Automatically with Foxit Reader.
- New: WD_FILE_SIZE_MB and WD_FILE_SIZE_GB variables.
- New: Email Task: When you use a file with email addresses (see Advanced Addressing) you can also set the subject and message body there.
- Fixed: The new "Only One QUIET Event" option wasn't working properly.
- Fixed: The FTP plugin did not shutdown properly.
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February 16, 2010
4.6.1
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- Fixed: Startup speed improvements on Windows-7 systems using (buggy) AHCI drivers from Intel.
- Fixed: When History wasn't set to "Maximal" in options, you could not view any history.
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January 21, 2010
4.6.0
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- New: Previously, the QUIET Event always fired multiple times, every "quiet interval" after the last real event.
Now you can tell WatchDirectory to fire QUIET only once.
- Updated: When the Auto FTP plugin checks if the connection to the server is still "alive"
it will not send error messages anymore.
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November 16, 2009
4.5.10
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- Fixed: The Auto FTP plugin would try to "CWD" to the file on the FTP server.
This was harmless on most FTP servers, but some servers would abort the upload.
- New: All plugins that support Dynamic Naming have a new variable for milliseconds: {msec}.
- New: The Run Any Program plugin can now be used as a SubTask in the SubTask plugin
- New: Various plugins that support the File Security settings now also allow you
to select "do not change file permissions".
- Fixed: The Auto ZIP task did not set the error message properly when an error occurred.
- Fixed: When you restored a backup of your tasks, the Control Center would crash (but the backup was properly restored).
- Fixed: The Auto UNZIP task did not properly unzip contained directories.
- Fixed: The File Age Monitoring Method disabled the QUIET event for tasks.
- Updated: The Auto FTP task writes less info (connecting, connected, disconnect) to the
history database. When the task receives a 40550 error (which can be almost any problem the FTP server detects), the task will retry several times.
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July 16, 2009
4.5.9
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- Fixed: The tip window sometimes caused the WD Control Center to crash at startup
- New: The Auto Copy plugin can now MOVE files. When you move files on the same disk, this is faster than copy followed by delete.
- New: The Folder Size plugin writes a timestamp and filename of deleted/moved files to
<Task Directory>\<Task Name>\removedfiles_YYYYMMDD.csv. These files are automatically removed when they are a month old.
- New: The Folder Size plugin can check for several new "events"
- Fixed: The "Last Message" column of the WatchDirectory Control Center was not always updating properly
- Fixed: The Auto UNZIP task now supports far larger files (tested with a 2GB zip containing an 8GB file)
- Fixed: The Auto ZIP task now supports far larger files (tested up to 8GB)
- Fixed: The Auto Copy option to remove directories when they become empty
in some cases also removed the monitored directory.
- New: The thumbnail plugin can now be used as a SubTask in the SubTask plugin
- New: The thumbnail plugin has a new option to prevent overwriting existing thumbnails
- New: You can set the "color" of a task. If you have a lot of tasks, this allows you to organize them in different "groups".
Give a task one of 6 colors using the "right click" context menu.
You can sort the tasks by color by clicking the header in the WD Control Center. You can select all tasks having the same color using the new
"Colors Toolbar".
- New: When you let the email plugin combine emails, you can now set the separator between emails yourself.
- New: Use CTRL+F (or View -> Find) to find and select tasks.
- Fix: The Automatically Start any Program plugin did not properly set the environment variable WD_REASON
when a new directory was detected.
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January 26, 2009
4.5.8
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January 6, 2009
4.5.7
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- New: A new dynamic function ({title}) is available for plugins that support dynamic naming.
- Fix: The wdPostMan program (System.Mail task) sometimes had long (~30 seconds) delays between messages.
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November 29, 2008
4.5.6
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October 7, 2008
4.5.5
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- Fix: Communication with the wdNotify tool didn't work properly when the task
runs as a Service. This was especially noticable on Windows Vista or earlier Windows versions with "Fast User Switching" or Terminal Services.
Note: You need wdNotify version 1.3 or higher. WatchDirectory 4.5.5 is not compatible with earlier wdNotify versions.
- Fix: The Folder Size plugin had trouble properly saving some settings.
When you select the option to move/delete the oldest files, you can now also set it to base this "age calculation" on the last-modified date.
- Update: The postman process now tries to connect 90 seconds to your SMTP server.
- New: The email task allows you to combine HTML emails. Previously the combine settings were ignored for HTML email.
- Update: The File Age Monitoring Method has been optimized to use less CPU and memory.
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July 13, 2008
4.5.4
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- Fix: The FTP plugin in some cases tried to change to an improper directory on your FTP server.
- New: A new option to Compact the history database of a task (File -> Compact History).
This will do a more thorough cleanup of the database than the automatic cleanup.
- New: The $URL() macro (email plugin) will now properly encode accented characters like ü.
- New: A new variable (%WD_EVENTNO%) is available for the Run a Batch file plugin.
- Update: When you select the File Age Monitoring Method, the settings for
"Fire FILENEW/DIRNEW at startup" and "check for missed events" will be ignored. These 2 options are not compatible with "File Age".
- Update: Several issues fixed for email tasks that use a lot of recipients (more than a few hundred)
and/or large amounts of text as the body of an email (more than a few thousand characters).
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May 22, 2008
4.5.3
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- New: Compatible with Windows 2008 Server.
- Update: The previous release of the FTP plugin introduced NOOP commands to keep the connection alive. Some FTP servers have trouble with this option, so this release makes them optional.
- Update: The "Fast Monitoring Method" would sometimes report the so-called "short filename" (file~01.txt),
depending how the file was created. This new version will try to convert short filenames to their "long" equivalent.
- Update: Added support for the new eventlog format of Windows Vista and 2008 to the Audit plugin.
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March 21, 2008
4.5.2
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- New: A new Dynamic Naming option to call a function in a dll.
- Important Fix: WatchDirectory was leaking "handles". Some operating systems seem to be affected more than others.
This was especially problametic when you run watchDirectory "unattended" for long periods of time (weeks).
- Updated: The Audit Files plugin now supports multiple email addresses.
- Fix: When your scheduler settings indicate that no directory monitoring is needed during a period, the "event collector" should stop running.
In some cases it would continue to run. Note that this same issue was partially fixed in release 4.5.1, this release has further fixes.
- Fix: If you use The File Age monitoring method with the "remember triggered files" option, the history database could grow quite large.
- Updated: The ftp plugin now sends NOOP (NO OPeration) commands to keep the connection alive.
This improves the reliability of large uploads.
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February 28, 2008
4.5.1
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- Fix: Site License keys could cause watchDirectory to hang on some dual-core computers.
- Fix: A small "repaint" issue sometimes caused the "New Task Window" to be blank.
- Fix: When your scheduler settings indicate that no directory monitoring is needed during a period, the "event collector" should stop running.
In some cases it would continue to run.
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February 3, 2008
4.5.0
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- New: The ZIP plugin can now create password protected ZIP files.
Furthermore, it can "add" files to existing ZIP files.
- Updated: The watchDirectory Control Center refreshes the status information of tasks in the background.
This improves the user experience when you have a lot of tasks.
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- Updated: You can Right-click a task to export its settings.
- New: Import settings of a task.
- Updated: New window to select with which plugin you want to run a task.
- Updated: The thumbnail plugin now supports the File Security page.
- Updated: When you right-click a task, the menu that came up allows you to explore all directories used by the task.
The "View -> Options" window now allows you to disable this for network drives (for better response time).
- Updated: The FTP plugin now has an option to write all replies from the FTP server to the history database.
- Fixed: The File Age monitoring method would always "fire events" for files, even if only directories were selected.
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October 19, 2007
4.2.5
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- New Plugin: A plugin to Automatically Start any Program.
- Updated: The Automatically Email plugin can now add a text before and after a combined email.
Also moved the "combine" settings to a new window to make the main window less cluttered.
- Fixed: When you send a test message on the Email Settings window, the test message was sent "from" (sender) the email address you entered as the "to" address.
Most SMTP servers reject these messages if the sender is unknown on their server (Relay Denied). This has been fixed.
- Fixed: The Thumbnail Plugin would sometimes write thumbnails without their file extension (.jpg).
- Fixed: The "mark of the web", introduced in the 4.2.4 release had an annoying side effect (IE only). Images in the helpfiles were not clickable anymore.
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October 2, 2007
4.2.4
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- Updated: The Automatically Zip plugin has a few new settings:
- It now supports Dynamic Naming
- You can configure the directory where temporary files are stored (useful for big ZIPs on drives with limited capacity)
- Important Fix: The wdPostMan program (System.Mail) was slowly consuming a lot of so-called Non Paged Pool memory - only on some systems.
Non Paged Pool memory is a limited resource and when the amount left gets too low it causes the computer to crash.
- Fix: Added a "Mark of the Web" to all help documents to prevent annoying warnings in Internet Explorer.
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September 4, 2007
4.2.3
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- New: A plugin to Automatically Rename Files.
- New: When a renamed directory is detected, watchDirectory can optionally also fire events for the contents of the "new" directory
- New: The thumbnail plugin supports BMP as the output format.
- New: When using the scheduler with the option "ignore events outside scheduled periods" selected,
watchDirectory will no longer monitor the directory outside the scheduled periods.
- New: The email plugin has an option to make the delay period for combined emails "fixed".
- New: The email plugin now supports combining emails separately for each sub-directory.
- New: The email plugin now also supports a subject in the @email.txt file.
- New: The email plugin can search for the email.txt file in parent directories if not found in the initial directory.
- New: The File Age monitoring method now also supports directories.
- New: The Automatic Delete files plugin can remove (empty) directories.
- New: The plugins that support Dynamic Naming can use the {owner} tag. This tag is replaced with the Windows account name that owns the file.
- Updated: The email plugin will not report an error when there is no @email.txt file in a directory
- Updated: The Postman program uses an upgraded email component, and no longer needs to copy files on long paths.
- Fix: The postman program could crash if you included a Unicode file without a byte order marker.
- Fix: The ftp plugin did not handle some of the proxy types correctly.
- Fix: The email plugin reported the "old" filename/directory name in case of rename events.
- Fix: The control center could report a wrong number of running tasks.
- Fix: (introduced in the 4.2.3 beta), wdRun (the program that runs the tasks) could loose the configured sub-directories to ignore, and report events for them.
- Fix: The upload plugin now defaults to the proper "home directory", instead of "/", when you browse to select the upload directory.
- Fix: The "automatically delete" plugin would also remove the monitored directory itself.
- Fix: Quiet events ignored the scheduler settings.
- Fix: If you enabled dynamic naming on the FTP plugin, the browse button did not work.
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April 4, 2007
4.2.2
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- Fix: When sending email without attachments, the email could get corrupt.
- New: You can now use POP3 as authentication method on the email settings dialog. This will connect to your POP3 server before connecting to your SMTP server.
- New: You automatically append the contents of a file to all outgoing emails. You can for example use this to add a standard disclaimer.
- New: The "Audit plugin" can now be configured not to write the "default audit files".
- New: The scheduler has an option to force the schedule. Previously it would process all events that were "due".
With this new option selected, the scheduler will wait for the next allowed period.
- New: The "Auto Upload" plugin will retry uploads if they fail due to the FTP server being down.
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March 17, 2007
4.2.1
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Another Free update
If you are currently running any 4.x version of watchDirectory, just install
"on top" of your current version. This will keep your configured tasks and settings intact.
The 4.2.1 release is a recommended update for everybody using the Fast Monitoring Method.
- New: All plugins that can be configured to Move or Delete files will now reset the "read only" attribute of the file before trying to delete/move.
- New: The email settings dialog has a new sub-dialog where you can enter filters. These filters tell the Postman program which emails NOT to send.
- New: The "Auto Copy Files" plugin can remove empty directories (if you enabled the option to remove the file after copying).
- New: A new option on the "Other settings" window to make "Fire FILENEW/DIRNEW" and "Check for missed events" work together with the Scheduler settings.
- New: You can set a startup delay for your task.
- New: When running a task as a service, you can select if it should "Auto Start" or "On Demand Start".
- New: You can set the message encoding for non-html emails. This prevents garbled text on non-english emails.
- Fix: In some situations the Fast Monitoring Method could use a lot of CPU time. This would happen if a task is currently busy with a file
(for example, uploading it to an FTP site) and another file event takes place in the monitored directory.
- Fix: The plugin to monitor the Folder Size didn't function correctly when you configure multiple tasks with this plugin.
- Fix: The automatically upload plugin would remove the remote file if you selected the option to move the local file after upload.
Also changed it so the FILEDEL option is now off by default.
- Fix: The email plugin had problems to attach files with semicolons (;) in their name.
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March 3, 2007
4.2.0
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- New: This version is Windows Vista Compatible.
- New: When using the Fast monitoring method, previous versions would not trigger your task if the plugin didn't support "renamed files".
This new version can optionally "translate" the FILEREN event to a FILEDEL and FILENEW event. FILENEW (new file) is supported by most plugins.
See the Events window for more information.
- New: Several new environment variables are available for the Automatically Run a .bat File plugin:
WD_FILE_DATE_CR and WD_FILE_TIME_CR contain the creation date and time of the file,
WD_FILE_DATE_LM and WD_FILE_TIME_LM contain the last modified date and time of the file.
- New: The Automatically Upload Files plugin has an option
to upload files with a ".partial" file extension. When the upload is complete, the file is renamed to the real name.
- New: The Audit Files (who did it) plugin now has a new
window (Assistant) to help enter the correct setting for "Path Prefix". This setting was previously named "local directory on the server".
This new version is also compatible with (most) RAID setups.
This version of the plugin also fixes a problem reported by some Win2003 customers ("Buffer too Small" errors).
- New: The Automatic Delete files plugin can remove directories
when the last file is deleted from it.
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November 20, 2006
4.1.1
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- Fix: (November 22) - The wdPostMan program refused to sent email if there was no attachment
- New: The File Age monitoring method now allows you to set the polling interval yourself.
- New: The Audit Info (who did it) plugin can write CSV files.
- New: The Directory to Watch window allows you to set the number of retries in case of network failures.
- Fix: The wdPostMan program would crash if you attach a file with a long path to email.
- Fix: The Play a sound plugin refused to load on NT4.
- Fix: The "tip" that a new version is available would always show when you performed a manual check-for-update
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November 5, 2006
4.1.0
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More than 1 year of free updates
Customers that bought watchDirectory version 4 when initially released,
have received more than one year of free updates.
During this time, a lot of functionality and free plugins were added.
Become a customer and get all 4.x versions free!
- NEW: A new monitoring method is added to the Professional edition of watchDirectory. Use the File Age
monitoring method to run your tasks for files older than X minutes, hours or days.
- NEW: A new plugin to watch your folder size. Send email, delete or move files when directories are filling up.
- NEW: You can now export your task history to XML.
- NEW: The background email handler (wdPostMan) now also writes info, warning and error messages to a history database, instead of the Windows Event log.
- NEW: The "Files that trigger events" window is replaced by the Filter Events window.
A more flexible and vastly improved method to configure watchDirectory for certain file types.
- NEW: A new window is added to the task configuration that allows you to set the Permissions of files and directories
that are created by the task. This window will only show for plugins that support it, currently the Copy,
Sort and Unzip plugins.
... and a lot of minor fixes and enhancements, among others:
- The wdPostMan process now also shows in the list of running tasks.
- You can set a "From:" address for the Email plugin, overriding the common from-address set
in the email settings window.
- You can send formatted email (bold, colored text etcetera) with the Email plugin, by sending HTML Email
- All helpfile pages now have a special printer friendly stylesheet (removes the menu among other things).
- In the watchDirectory Control Center, use the "View" menu to select which columns to show.
- Selecting the "View Task History" option inside the Control Center opens the History database for the selected task.
- Changed the method to determin the SID of the "Everyone" group to make it compatible with non-english Windows versions.
- When the Control Center is started the very first time it wrote settings to C:\Windows\common.ini, instead of to <task directory>\common.ini
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July 30, 2006
4.0.47
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The Auto Zip plugin supports "luggage files" (files that are always added to the zip, for example a readme.txt)
and has a new option to store only the direct parent directory name in the zip.
The time and date related Dynamic Name tags can now also use the timestamps of the detected file.
Added help and tips for the Convert Postscript files to PDF
and Automatically print PDF plugins.
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June 27, 2006
4.0.46
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You can set a filesize limit for attached files with the Automatically Email plugin.
Added 2 new Dynamic Naming tags ({firstdir} and {parentdir}) and
3 new functions (cutright, stringbefore and stringafter).
The Auto Copy Files plugin will now automatically retry to copy several times if needed.
Fixed a problem that would prevent cleaning the history databases.
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May 14, 2006
4.0.45
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New Free Add-On Program: wdNotify: system tray alerts from watchDirectory.
New Plugin: Automatically play a sound file when new files are created.
The Task History viewer has a new dialog to show scheduled events. Press Ctrl+E
or "View -> Scheduled Events" while viewing a task to open this dialog.
The Automatically Email plugin can be configured to combine emails.
The Automatically Upload Files plugin supports Dynamic Naming.
The Automatically Unzip Files plugin supports Dynamic Naming.
The Automatically compress Files plugin can now store directory information in the ZIP file.
Added Search to the online help.
The wdPostman program now supports unicode files for the @@@filename@@@ macro (used to insert a file's content into the body of a message).
The "View -> Options..." menu allows you to set your country preference for Date/Time display, and
Dynamic Naming.
The Default and Polling monitoring methods will now better support deleted directories.
Previous versions would get confused if the directory was removed while a directory scan was in progress.
The professional edition has a new option to "Password Protect" the watchDirectory Control Center (File -> Password Protect).
The Automatically Copy Files and Automatically Sort Files plugin
now have an option to make copied files accessible to "everyone".
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March 19, 2006
4.0.44
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The thumbnail plugin allows more precise control for CPU usage.
New "plugin" to automatically run Visual Basic Scripts.
New "plugin" to automatically decompress RAR files.
Tasks can be assigned to groups.
The scheduler can now be configured for multiple periods in a day.
The Professional edition has a new option to keep running when the user is logging off.
You can now rename tasks.
There is a new "user interface" tab on the "View -> Options" window. Here you can set if the splash screen is shown, and if
the Control Center uses small or large icons on toolbars.
The Automatically Delete files plugin doesn't write warnings anymore when the file is already deleted.
The Standard edition did not properly startup.
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February 19, 2006
4.0.43
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The evaluation version of watchDirectory can now run inside "virtual machines" (VMWare and VirtualPC). Previous
versions refused to run inside virtual machines.
When you run more than 1 task on a computer, these tasks could "influence" each other. The effect of this was that
a task would delay processing events for some files until a new event "woke it up".
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February 15, 2006
4.0.42
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The Auto Sort files plugin has been improved. You can now
copy and disable sort rules.
The plugin that creates thumbnails of your pictures can now also create them in GIF and PNG formats.
Furthermore, it supports creating thubnails for changed pictures.
The control center and history viewer are now compatible with muli-monitor displays.
The control center can show its icons "half size".
The email plugin now supports attaching files with their "long filenames".
The Automatically Copy plugin dropped the first letter of the filename
when watchDirectory is configured to monitor the root of a drive.
The unzip plugin didn't properly set the timestamp on unzipped files.
The "hide the run window" setting was ignored when you run a task from the startup menu.
watchDirectory would write an error message (and send it per e-mail if you configured that):
"Gave up monitoring directory after 0 retries" when you asked WD to stop.
The memory usage of the "fire filenew/dirnew" and "check for missed events" options has been reduced.
WatchDirectory now properly checks if the directory still exists before calling your task for a "new directory" event.
The Fast Monitoring method has been improved slightly. Some programs create a file by following this sequence:
- Create the file
- Delete the file
- Create the file (again)
They presumably do this to check for access permissions. The first 2 events will be ignored by watchDirectory.
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December 22, 2005
4.0.41
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A new plugin is released to Automatically Sort files.
This plugin is an enhanced version of the Automatically Copy files plugin
as it allows multiple destinations.
The Copy files plugin has a new option to disable copying
security attributes.
The Auto Sort and Auto Copy plugins
now support 2 new functions for dynamic naming:
- {environment{name}} to use an environment variable.
- {sequence{sequence-filename}} to use a automatically incrementing counter from a file.
The Control Center did not correctly check for valid email adresses.
The PostMan program now supports using a file as the body of the email message.
The Task History program now supports the Find command. Also, its performace is a lot
better for large history databases.
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December 4, 2005
4.0.40
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The FTP files plugin can do "Always text", "Always binary" and "Auto" upload.
Previous versions always used "Always binary" (Only good if your FTP server is Windows based).
Furthermore, in some cases this plugin ignored your setting for "Passive mode".
The auditing plugin will now rescan the Security Event Log in case it
receives an ERROR_EVENTLOG_FILE_CHANGED (1503) error from Windows.
The wdRun program (the actual directory monitor) did not give "fire FILENEW/DIRNEW" and "check for missed events"
enough time to run.
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November 17, 2005
4.0.39
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The Unzip plugin will set the permissions for unzipped files so everybody has
access to them.
The Control Center does a few additional checks when you enter filemasks. Furthermore, new tasks have their permissions
set so other users can access (and start) the task.
The Email plugin should now work properly if you attach files on network drives.
German version of watchDirectory available for download.
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November 6, 2005
4.0.38
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The Email plugin has a new option to remove the attached file.
This is also possible when you send e-mail from inside your .bat file.
When you use the scheduler to delay events, you
can now let it update the scheduled time when it merges events.
Improved the performance of the Task History viewer.
Several other minor improvements.
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October 23, 2005
4.0.37
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The Email component will now automatically add < and > to the address when
you don't enter them yourself. Also, a problem has been fixed that caused the WD_FILE_SIZE and WD_FILE_SIZE_KB variables to be ignored.
The Copy Files component now supports several functions
when you use dynamic naming.
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October 9, 2005
4.0.36
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The plugin that Automatically Copies files now allows you to "dynamically name"
the target file. For example, when the dynamic name is C:\Target\{extension}\{filename}, the
new file hello.txt will be copied to C:\Target\txt\hello.txt.
Furthermore, the Auto Copy plugin now also copies NTFS file permissions to the target file.
The Automatically Delete files plugin can also react to changed files.
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October 2, 2005
4.0.35
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The Automatically Copy files plugin has a new option that keeps the original
file extension when it renames existing files.
Several small changes to make translation to German and Dutch easier.
When using a JavaScript enabled browser, several screenshots will "autotomatically resize" in the helpfile.
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September 25, 2005
4.0.34
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The Automatically upload files plugin ignored the "Port" setting, and always used the default port.
You can now also send raw FTP commands to your FTP server after the upload completes.
The Automatically ZIP files plugin has a new option to remove the ZIPPED files.
Several other minor changes.
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September 4, 2005
4.0.33
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The Automatically upload files plugin can now &retry to connect&
(in case the FTP server is down).
The email plugin can use the same variables as the batch file plugin.
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August 28, 2005
4.0.32
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The Control Center has some extra menu options to start and stop the wdPostMan program.
The upload files plugin will now write warnings for missing files instead of aborting.
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August 21, 2005
4.0.31
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The thumbnail plugin now supports GIF format
as input, and allows you to add a prefix and suffix to the output filename.
Also, the algorithm used for the "bounding box" resize method is more accurate.
The plugin that reads the Security Event Log has been enhanced to use
a "mapping file" allowing it to be used for other operating systems than Windows XP.
A problem with the Decompress (unzip) plugin is fixed where it wouldn't
use the directory information inside the zip file.
The Task History Viewer didn't show you all events in some cases.
The Control Center ignored your "Check For Updates" preference.
When the directory monitor encounters a "sharing violation" (another program has exclusive access to a directory), it
will retry that directory a few times.
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August 14, 2005
4.0.30
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A new plugin is added to Automatically Unzip Files.
The Auto Run batch files plugin can now properly handle "invalid" filenames
(having <, > and & characters in their name).
The program that does the actual monitoring (wdRun) did not always properly "restart" when network folders became
temporarily unavailable.
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August 9, 2005
4.0.29
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Some dialogs didn't "paint" well. They showed some HTML markup especially on slower (or busy) computers.
The helpfile has been improved a bit more.
The delay starting your task option now is enabled with a 2 second delay by default
for most plugins/tasks. This will prevent a lot of "extra" events when a file is created.
The plugin that can automatically start .bat files has been enhanced further:
- There is a new option to show the output .bat file window
- Another option will force the plugin to wait indefinitely for a .bat file to end, instead of 20 seconds maximum
Removed the (incomplete) Dutch translation. Will return later when finished.
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August 3, 2005
4.0.28
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Improved the reliability of the wdPostMan program - the component that is responsible for sending email.
The watchDirectory Control Center did not remove the task from your startup menu or the "Windows Services applet"
when you removed a task. This has been fixed.
The part of the common library responsible for creating directories gave errors when part of the directory to create
already existed. Fixed in this release.
Added an option to the upload files plugin to delete the file
that has just been uploaded.
The plugin that can automatically start batch files has been enhanced:
- You can select an option so it will not wait until your .bat file completes
- You can set an upper limit to the number of .bat files that will run at the same time
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July 27, 2005
4.0.26
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Added an option to the Automatically Copy Files plugin to delete
the original file after being copied.
Fixed a problem in the "uninstall" code.
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July 24, 2005
4.0.25
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The initial release of watchDirectory version 4!
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All new minor versions of watchDirectory are free after your purchase.
So, when you buy version 4.0 all 4.x version will be free. This also includes all
Extensions that are released for that version.
When a new major version is released (5.0) existing customers can upgrade at a reduced price.
If this new major version is released within 90 days of your purchase, your upgrade to the
new version is free as well.
If you want to upgrade watchDirectory Standard to watchDirectory Professional, you
can do so anytime for the price difference.
there is a small upgrade fee.
