Monitoring a Local Folder for Changes
CuteFTP allows you to upload any new or modified files or folders added to a specific local folder automatically. The Folder Monitor wizard guides you through the steps required for activating the folder monitoring function.
To upload changes to a local folder automatically
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Connect to the Site that contains the folder to which you want to upload the changed or new files.
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On the main menu, click Tools > Folder Tools > Monitor Local Folders. The Folder Monitor Wizard appears.
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Specify the local path to the folder you want to monitor.
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In the Upload to the followingremote path box, provide the remote path to where you want to upload the files in the monitored folder.
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To monitor all subdirectories within the target folder, select the Include subfolders check box.
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Click Next.
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Specify the date and the time after which all the files created or modified in the folder are uploaded to the server.
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To overwrite any file with the same name on the server, select the Always overwrite check box.
If you select this check box, Smart Overwrite rules are ignored and there is no warning before files are overwritten.
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To monitor certain files or file types in a folder, select the Apply monitor filters check box.
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To apply filtering to the particular folders, select the Apply filtering to folder names check box. (The filters should be predefined. Refer to Filtering Transfers for details.)
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If you want two files with the same name but different case to be treated as two separate files, select the Usecase sensitive filtering check box.
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Click Next.
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If you selected filtering, specify which files to include or exclude in the transfer (otherwise, skip this step):
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Type the file name or file type in the Include files that match the mask listed below box, then click Add. The file or file type is added to the list of files that are monitored. For example, type .txt in the Include files that match the mask listed below box, then click Add. All the .txt files in the folder are monitored.
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For the files you do not want to monitor, add them to the Do not include files that match the mask list.
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To remove a file from the list, click the file, then click Remove.
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Click Next.
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To use system functions to determine the changes when a file is modified, select the Attempt to auto-detect changes in monitored folder check box. If the check box is cleared, CuteFTP cycles through the folder at the rate defined by Monitor folder every n seconds and looks for changes to the modified time-stamp.
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Click Next.
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Click Finish.
To later stop monitoring the folder, start the wizard again. The list of monitored folders appears on the first page of the wizard. (You may have to disconnect and then reconnect for the monitored folders to appear.) You can also right-click the job in the Queue, then click Properties.
If you right-click in the Queue, then click Remove All, you will remove your Folder Monitor Rules!
Items deleted from the local folder are not deleted from the remote folder. To discontinue a scheduled backup task, select the task in the Queue window, then on the main menu, click Tools >Queue >Remove Selected.