What's new in watchDirectory 4.9.5
Jun 7, 2017
- Fixed: WatchDirectory crashed on (some) Asian language systems.
- Improved: The new System.Mail now allows you to connect to SMTP servers without username/password.
- Improved: The Print PDF task has several new settings.
- Fixed: The email reports of the Audit task weren't properly sent at 6am.
- Fixed: Large file uploads by the FTP task didn't properly report their progress.
- Improved: The Unzip task now supports password protected zips.
New in watchDirectory 4.9.4 (Jul 20, 2016)
- Improved: Updated the supported encryption methods for the FTP Upload plugin
- Improved: When you let the Email task combine multiple emails, there is a new setting to prevent the same file being attached multiple times
- Improved: The Print PDF task has a new option to set the print orientation (Portrait or Landscape)
New in watchDirectory 4.9.3 (Dec 12, 2015)
- Improved: The new Print Pdf plugin has a new option to control how documents are resized (or not)
- Fixed: Dynamic Naming did not work properly for the new Print Pdf plugin.
New in watchDirectory 4.9.2 (Nov 12, 2015)
- New: A new plugin to Print PDF Files.
- Improved: When a task is started and its history is corrupt, the task will try to automatically repair the history database.
New in watchDirectory 4.9.1 (May 20, 2015)
- Fixed: The Folder Size plugin ignored subdirectories.
- Improved: The $CALL$ macro can now also be used to get the recipients of an email.
New in watchDirectory 4.9.0 (May 20, 2015)
- New: The helpfiles are also available in Spanish.
New in watchDirectory 4.8.9 (May 20, 2015)
- 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.
New in watchDirectory 4.8.8 (May 20, 2015)
- Fixed: The FTP task did not set the text/binary mode for uploads after reconnecting to the server.
- Fixed: The ZIP task did not properly zip large files (bigger than 4GB).
New in watchDirectory 4.8.7 (May 20, 2015)
- Improved: When monitoring directories where files or sub-directories have illegal names (from a Windows perspective), WatchDirectory will automatically use the short name (ILLEGAL~1.TXT) instead of aborting. This has been implemented for the Polling, Default and File Age monitoring methods.
- Fixed: The new implementation for email did not properly implement embedded images, also in some cases files were attached more than once.
- Improved: Previous versions of the "Auto Upload" task always tried to RESUME uploads after failed attempts. This caused problems with FTP servers that don't support RESUME. Resuming uploads is now an option you can select or disable.
New in watchDirectory 4.8.6 (May 20, 2015)
- Fixed: The new Quick History viewer did not show all messages in the correct order.
- Improved: Added a "Find" box to the Quick History viewer.
- Fixed: The upload plugin did not properly check if it was connected to the FTP server when uploading the first file of a run.
New in watchDirectory 4.8.5 (May 20, 2015)
- New: When you use the new v1.9 release of WxRemote, WatchDirectory can send its latest messages (activity) to WxRemote.
New in watchDirectory 4.7.3 (May 20, 2015)
- Fixed: In rare cases the FTP Upload plugin did not upload the detected file.
New in watchDirectory 4.7.1 (May 20, 2015)
- New: A new implementation of the System.Mail component which allows secure SMTP connections (SSL or TLS). In case of compatibility issues, you can still use the old (v4.6 and earlier) implementation.
- New: The dynamic function {code{dllname,parameters}} now also allows you to call a batch script.
- New: {isoweek} and {isoyearweek} tags.
- New: A plugin to automatically upload to Amazon's Simple Storage Service (also known as Amazon S3), see the Amazon Upload plugin.
- New: An easier to use Task History Viewer. The original viewer is still included and you can select which one to start in options.
- Improved: The Copy task has 2 advanced options: "Slow Copy" to prevent overloading your network and "Paranoid Copy" that checks each bit after copying.
- Improved: The FTP plugin automatically resumes the upload when it is interrupted.
- Fixed: Better support for Win2000 and Win2003
New in watchDirectory 4.6.78 (May 20, 2015)
- Fixed: The FTP upload task could hang or use a lot of CPU.
New in watchDirectory 4.6.7.522 (Sep 27, 2012)
- Improved: When using the Scheduler, QUIET events were not handled properly.
- New: The FTP Upload task has a new "Strict" option for Passive connections. This helps when the FTP server lies (!!) about its IP address in response to the PASV command.
- Improved: Small improvements to the ZIP component preventing it to hang on illegal filenames.
- New: UTF-8 support for the email component. This is now the new default for message encoding when you create a new email task.
- Improved: Implemented "Clear Command Channel" for FTPS protocols
- Fixed: The Upload Files task will now retry to connect when it receives a 40425 error
- Fixed: The Environment variable WD_FILE_E was not properly set for files without extensions
- Fixed: WatchDirectory crashed (or just didn't work) on Vista and Windows-7 when not running as an Administrator
- Improved: The WatchDirectory Control Center is more efficient (cpu and resources)
- New: Filter Events can now also filter with bat scripts for complex filter situations.
- New: A new plugin to Remove the Oldest Files from a Directory: Use it to delete old log files while keeping the 10 newest.
- New: The Zip File task can now be used as a Subtask.
- Fixed: The task that Upload Files to an FTP Server would send false email warnings when renaming files.
New in watchDirectory 4.1.300 (Nov 6, 2006)
- 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
- 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:Windowscommon.ini, instead of to common.ini