Please edit your automated transfer profile. Under 'Select Files and Folders to Exclude' click 'Configure'. Now, check the 3 subfolders you wish to exclude. This will only transfer the files in the root. You may also be interested in reading about filtering. This is useful when you only need to transfer certain types of files. More information on configuring filtering is available at this link: https://www.deskshare.com/help/AFM/Filters.aspx

Auto FTP Manager can be set to automatically resume a transfer. Click File >> Settings. Under the File Manager Option select the box that says 'If file exists on destination' and in the pulldown list choose 'Resume File'. The other options are to overwrite from the beginning, rename the file, or to skip it.

Auto FTP Manager's automated transfer will confirm the certificate each time you run it manually. The scheduled transfers will automatically accept the certificate.

Yes, Auto FTP Manager can automatically e-mail reports to more than one person. Simply insert the additional email addresses separated by a comma. For example: user1@yahoo.com,user2@gmail.com,user3@hotmail.com

When you manually run a Automated Transfer profile, you are allowed to review the selected files before beginning the transfer. Once you schedule the Automated Transfer, you do not have to click any buttons to continue. The certificate is accepted automatically and files are transferred. You can also specify the user account to run under so that Auto FTP Manager does not need to be running, and you don't even have to be logged in to Windows.

Auto FTP Manager version 5 and newer will run as a service. Create your automated transfer, then schedule it. In the schedule settings make sure to enter a username and password that the schedule will run as. You do not need to be logged in for the scheduled transfer to execute. More information about scheduling a file transfer can be found here: https://www.deskshare.com/help/AFM/ScheduledProfiles.aspx

You can start the transfer from the folder above the one whose name changes. For example if your directory structure is c:\daily changes\10-27-2011, you would configure Auto FTP Manager to transfer c:\daily changes\ with all sub-directories. Your sub-directories will transfer even if the folder names change.

You can use the command line interface of Auto FTP Manager to accomplish your transfers. After Auto FTP Manager completes the transfer, it will exit so you do not have the software running multiple times. More details about calling the command line interface from your batch file is available here: https://www.deskshare.com/help/AFM/CommandLineInterface.aspx

Auto FTP Manager can transfer files that are changed by date or size. We have an article that explains how to configure this. You may find this article helpful: https://www.deskshare.com/resources/articles/afm_AdvancedFiltering.aspx After configuring the filter, you can test your automated profile to make sure it works as expected. When you are satisfied with the automated transfer, schedule it to run every day at 6PM.

You can use the Auto FTP Manager command line interface to start a automated transfer profile. More details are available here: https://www.deskshare.com/help/AFM/CommandLineInterface.aspx

Yes, that will work using Auto FTP Manager. You will require 2 automated profiles. The first will download and keep a backup on your local PC and the second profile will upload from your PC to your mirror site. You can use the action rules to transfer new or changed files. Here is more information on setting action rules: https://www.deskshare.com/help/AFM/ActionRules.aspx Use the scheduler to execute each transfer profile separately and with enough time in between schedules so that there is no overlap of transfers.

Auto FTP Manager will transfer any files on your PC, including your MySQL database files. Transferring databases that are in use is not recommended, I suggest creating a snapshot or backup using the mysqldump utility. You can then transfer the snapshot of your database to your other PC.

In Auto FTP Manager you can select just the files you want using the filter function. For this case, edit your Automated Transfer profile, click 'Configure' next to Transfer Rules, and 'Configure' again next to Filters. Select the File Name filter, and choose 'I would like to Include' files having names 'Ending With'. Then in the text box, enter '_20.jpg,_21.jpg,_30.jpg,_31.jpg,' and so on to _35.jpg. The same can be done for the filename '_34_d.jpg'. Only files ending with these entries will be selected for transfer.

Auto FTP Manager can email the transfer log to you, save it on your PC or network, or FTP the log file to a server. You can also choose to email the log on every transfer - or only when an error occurs. You can find information on the available transfer log settings settings here: https://www.deskshare.com/help/AFM/TransferLogSettings.aspx

Auto FTP Manager does not use date parameters in the command line, you can specify them directly in the profile. Create your filter in your automated transfer profile, enter the modification date for 'Today' or 'Within the past x days' and save the profile. From the command line you will pass the name of the profile you would like to execute, it will use the filter you set.

Auto FTP Manager uses the username of the current logged in account when you create a scheduled transfer. The error shows the user you changed to does not have permission to logon to execute the transfer. Follow these instructions to fix the issue: First,ensure that the user, and all groups that the user belongs to, are not denied the right to log on locally. To assign the user right Allow log on locally: On the server, open the Group Policy Management Editor. To do so, click Start, then in the Start Search box, type gpedit.msc, and then press ENTER. If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Continue. In the navigation pane, open Computer Configuration, Windows Settings, Security Settings, Local Policies, and User Rights Assignment. In the details pane, double-click Allow log on locally. Click Add User or Group. Find the user or group account you want to add, and then click OK. Click OK to save your changes to the Group Policy object (GPO). Users that are currently logged on must log off and back on to be affected by the changed GPO setting. Your scheduled transfer will now run.

Yes, use Auto FTP Manager's settings for synchronize will make the DVR and NAS have identical files. The synchronize can be configured in the Action Rules. If your DVR removes older files, the synchronize setting will also remove the same older files from the NAS. In this case your files will be transferred since the NAS will not get full, but instead be a mirror of the DVR files.

You can accomplish this in Auto FTP Manager by starting your transfer from within the folder. Edit your profile, and use the browse button to select the folder level to start from. If you have only a single folder with files you would like to transfer, you can select 'Startup FTP Folder'. If you have a more than one folder you would like to do this with, you can create more than one Automated Transfer, each beginning in a different startup folder.

You can set the Auto FTP Manager scheduled task to wake Windows from sleep mode. There are 2 step to do this; Go to "Control Panel >> Power Options >> Edit Plan Settings" for the power plan you are using. Then select "Change advanced power settings". Next, go to "Sleep >> Allow wake timers" and enable them. Go to Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Task Scheduler. Open Deskshare >> Auto FTP Manager and double click on the scheduled transfer profile. Select the 'Conditions' tab and click the box for 'Wake the computer to run this task'.

Export your profiles with File >> Backup Profile. Next, download and install the latest version of Auto FTP Manager from this link: https://www.deskshare.com/ftp-download.aspx Once you have Auto FTP Manager installed, you can use File >> Restore Profiles to import your profiles with all settings and schedules. You can deactivate the old installation by clicking Help >> Deactivate Serial Number. Finally, enter your original serial number to activate the software on the new PC.