Hi John, Thanks so much for your generous help! Since reading your email, I have been testing NetLoad and find it to be the best solution I have found yet for ease of keeping my web sites on the server synchronized with my local copy. You are right, their exclusion feature does work great!
Thanks again!! > -----Original Message----- > From: John Grinlap [ ] > Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 12:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: exclusion feature > > > Ken, > > Just to follow up in private on your posting to the > ws_ftp list (I've noticed that some of my more caustic > remarks don't make it to the list). > > I too, spent quite a while trying to get the exclude > feature to work but couldn't. I e-mailed the > evaluation software tech support person several times > but he was slow to answer and the answers were > incomplete. I later concluded that he really didn't > know much and had to go to someone else to get the > answers which were then sent to me (probably > incompletely). > > The help section in the program is useless. The KB is > not much better. Everything you describe has happened > to me. It appears that when you exclude a folder the > sync utility thinks it's empty instead if non-existent > and then sends all the stuff in the excluded source > folder to the destination folder. It appears the sync > utility has been around since v6 which leads me to > believe no one uses it, or they have introduced a > problem recently, or the exclude feature is new. The > sync utility is poorly integrated into the rest of the > program since it requires entering information that > was already entered for ws_ftp. All in all I spent a > lot of time trying to get it to work. > > As I said in my other e-mail, take a look at NetLoad > (http://www.netload.com.au). It does only one thing, > sync your local machine and your web site. It allows > for excluding folders or files which match a leading > string. The GUI is sloppy which is too bad since it > turned me off the first time I looked at it until > someone on the ws_ftp list mentioned the program. > Some of the text overlaps and the extra windows that > open at the bottom of the screen are hard to read. > The exclude feature is hidden under the > "NetLoad-display ignore list" choice at the top. To > set up your ftp info and local and remote folder info > look under "NetLoad-options". As I said the interface > is not very intuitive but it works. > > One downside is that it appears that one set of > excludes applies to all the ftp sites you might deal > with unless you change them manually each time. If > you have only one site there's no problem. > > You really need to have an ftp program also, but if > your requirements are minimal, like mine, you can use > ws_ftp LE which I have used for several years with no > problems. I'm hoping the NetLoad author will get the > interface cleaned up if a few of us users send him > some suggestions. > > I've looked around quite a bit for something to sync > my local machine with my web server and this is the > best I could find. It seems surprising that there > aren't more programs out there that do this one job > but I guess that's because the site development tools > have them built in. > > The evaluation version of NetLoad is limited by the > number of actual updates you can do (30 I think). > When I actually bought the program they responded > quickly with a password (1 day, I think they were > asleep in Australia when I ordered), and when I sent a > question about the registration procedure the author > (it looks like a one man operation) responded within > hours. > > Good luck. If you need more info, e-mail me but > remember, I'm not much farther along using NetLoad > than you are. > > John Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list.
