Useful or not useful?

[Amro]

An application which let you modify the names of all files in a directory at once. For example, you open it up, select a directory and set text replacement fields..so like "[abc]" to "" would get rid of "[abc]" from all of the file names..etc. You would be able to do other things as well, like rename them all completely to some unified format (like "picture%i" for picture1, picture2, picture3, etc.).

Useful or not so much? I wrote a basic version w/ manual directory entry for my own use and i modify the code to do what I want, but if it's useful, maybe I should spruce it up and release it.

Amro

[YARDofSTUF]

I would find renamed stuff, like 1 2 3 4 5 and so on kinda useful.

[cyberskye]

I agree.

Also adding differential backups (file compare) to your backup app

[Amro]

cool. 3 more weeks of school this semester and i'll add those features.

[Craig321]

I would find renamed stuff, like 1 2 3 4 5 and so on kinda useful.


Lupas Rename

[Amro]

I agree.

Also adding differential backups (file compare) to your backup app

Do you use it? I'm curious. You know what would be cool? FTP Backup. You give it a remote server...it backs up to it..would be slow though.

[cyberskye]

Do you use it? I'm curious. You know what would be cool? FTP Backup. You give it a remote server...it backs up to it..would be slow though.

I was looking at it for my folks - they live on a boat and travel quite a bit so having ftp for them would actually be very useful - they could backup to my server when they hit a marina with wifi/wimax.

[Amro]

Well, I think I'll be adding burning support more quickly than the FTP stuff. I have yet to decide whether to integrate it into the current app via a new form, or seperate it into its own executable. I figured it would be more useful as a seperate program so people could burn any data they wanted or create iso files. It'd be a very simple program supporting only data CDs and DVDs w/ no session support.

[cyberskye]

That would be cool.

Any plans for a warm-synch option? Shceduled file-compare based disk synch? Point to any mounted drive or network share? Not sw raid (hot-synch) but not strictly manual either?

Might get you a free boat ride next time you in the bahamas...:)

[Amro]

rofl, i could write it in..shouldn't be so difficult. definately has to wait for the summer. the burning stuff is done, but before i do anything else, i am going to rewrite the GUI to the backup software and make it a 3-screen wizard INCLUDING the burn options. The burn software is currently stand-alone. pic shortly.

THIS IS NOT THE FINAL SOFTWARE, just a draft version, essentially, but it's fully functional. I just want to spruce up the GUI a bit.

http://amromousa.com/dev/quickburn/quickburn.jpg

[cyberskye]

The gui is pretty clean. I always think more is less. A challenge (maybe not so useful) make the "Add file" vs. "Add Dir" options context sensitive - whichever is highlighted is what is available in the gui...

Reducing the number of buttons is the only thing that could make it any better - again, don't know that it's worth it. It is nice & clean.

Just to tempt you - they spend their days moving from Baltimore MD (where my bro lives) and the bahamas. Dodge winter oin the north and hurricanes ion the south :)

http://moonriveriii.com/gallery/albums/MIKE/Christmas_2004_21.jpg

That's their boat - their website was the first I ever did. Check out the other pix - that's gallery package (http://gallery.menalto.com).

/*
Boat ride in the bahamas if you fix their backup problem
You are getting sleepy; you want to build teh warm backup; very sleepy
*/

:)

[Amro]

I'll do my best. I can't until after finals--that's for sure. I've been up coding C++/OpenGL code all night for my last graphics project..yeesh. I just finished writing the text parser and the portion of the program that displays the models based on the text..but the last model is giving me hell b/c of their notation.

So specifically, you want incremental backup, ftp backup, what else? As I said, I'm going to redo the GUI for ambackup completely, throw in the burning util then work on the incremental backup. It should be as simple as writing out a text db w/ some data in it and parsing it again on subsequent runs. I suppose it'd be smart to use XML to do it, since it'd be less custom text parsing. I need a way to create an appropriate hash though, etc. I'll probably do something like file creation and modification dates slapped together..so like

22405050406
22405060706 <-- would over write the file w/ the previous code b/c it was modified later.. something along those lines.

The ftp stuff should be very simple, I could probably throw that together in an hour or less. The gui redesign will take some time. You just want it to upload the files to the FTP rather than copy elsewhere on the drive, right? Easy. This app is my favorite of everything I've written so no worries, 3.0 will be out as soon as I get a chance to work on it.

I suppose it wouldn't be too bad, once I get the incremental backup going on disk, I'd just have to upload the database up to the FTP, try to download it, if it's there, do the sync, otherwise just copy everything up.

[Amro]

5 finals this week, then i'll start on the rewrite/feature additions

[cyberskye]

Sorry I was gone for a while.

That compare algo sounds pretty good. On the ftp point, woould you try and compress to a single file before shipment, do file-compare before shipment (to reduce band width) and/or add a resume for disconnects? If you add all that you should consider charging some bucks for it!

Just to be clear - your gui is pretty damn clean. I was throwing out what little ways I saw to improve, but they are just my views. It is clean as is.

Thanks for listening.

Skye

[Amro]

i can do some very simple things to account for the functionality you spoke of. i can compress to zip and name it w/ the date..but if a user renamed, i wouldn't be able to do the check, plus i wouldn't be able to do a file by file check on it if that were the case. i suppose i could upload the file database seperately. i'll figure it out. right now i'm busy w/ these blasted finals (1 down, 4 to go)....i've emailed someone at a large corporation (hoping for a summer internship here in atlanta)...and i'll go from there. if things go my way, i'll start making the changes in about a week (my computer is down as i'm rma'ing my vid card..am on my wife's right now).

resume functionality i'll look into. the gui for the burner will probably go in as is w/ some more info about space used/total space instead of just free space. i'll probably remove one button from the gui (the disc info button is redundant if all of the info is on screen..maybe try to merge the add files and add folder buttons..we'll see. i'll also add a poll engine to detect when a disc is in, right now it just updates it when a user adds/removes files or opens the program w/ a disk in, otherwise it shows free space unknown.

so tired. i just need a freaking break from school...thank god summer is coming.

Amro