A new watchDirectory beta is available, with the following changes:

    *  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.
    * 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.

Note that you should install the beta in the same directory as your current install. Also, while the beta is installed, it will claim that there is an update available on the web. Just ignore those messages.


Gert

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Hi,

We just uploaded a new beta with a few fixes and some new features.

Fixed: Ignoring certain subdirectories of the monitored directory did not work anymore (not ignored).

And several new options for the email plugin. Most of these were requested in response to the email tip in our previous newsletter .


Dynamic subject based on the directory where the new file is found
When you use the trick with the email.txt file, as described in the newsletter, you can now also add the subject to use for the email to the email.txt file.
To do this, your email.txt file should look like this:
Code:

; <- lines that start with a semicolon are ignored
TO:<John@doe.com>
CC:<Mary@doe.com>
;
; email plugin stops reading email addresses when it sees a line starting with "["
[subject]
subject=A new file: %WD_FILE%
 

Look for the email.txt in parent directories
When the email.txt file is not found in the directory which has the file event (new file, deleted file etcetera), you can instruct the email plugin to look for it in the parent directory (and after that in the parents parent directory....).
To enable this, add an exclamation mark (!) in front of the filename:
Code:

@@!email.txt 

When the file C:\Monitored\subdir\sub\file.txt is created, the email plugin will try the following filenames:
Code:

C:\Monitored\subdir\sub\email.txt
C:\Monitored\subdir\email.txt
C:\Monitored\email.txt
C:\email.txt
 

Gert

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corrected the layout of code sample

Hello,

We just uploaded a new beta (5th beta of 4.2.3).
There are 2 new features of this version:

The Automatically Email plugin, when configured to combine emails, can optionally combine these emails separately for each sub-directory.
The bat file plugin has a new variable (WD_FILE_OWNER), and the plugins that support dynamic naming can use the new tag {owner}. These variables are filled with the accountname of the owner of the detected file.


Gert

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Hello All,

Here is the final (well, I thought that before) beta of watchDirectory version 4.2.3. This version will be the "release" version next week.

New in beta 7:
# 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.


Gert


removed the download link. Version 4.2.3 is now the official release