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Upload Notifier Help

Upload-notifier is a tool to let you know that files have been uploaded. This is very useful if you are connected to a LAN (local area network) or if you have a FTP-directory.

Because it cannot filter out your network-data, it has to be run now and then. The easiest way to use it is to run it from a scheduling application, like Microfoft System Agent that comes with the Windows 95 Plus Pack, but any other scheduling application will do fine.

Files can only be uploaded to directories that other users have write-access to. In this HELP-document this directory will be called your "Upload-directory".

Upload Notifier consists of two applications: Notify.exe and Setup.exe. Notify is the notification program, and Setup is the program that lets you adjust the parameters.

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Upload Directory

This is the place where you enter in which one of your directories files may be uploaded.

You can just enter a directory-name, or you can press the button to let appear a dialog box.


Notification

This area lets you specify in which way you want to be informed of new uploads.

The following methods are available:

Showing a message

Playing a sound

Starting the Windows Explorer or the File Manager

You can also let users know how much free space is available for the files they want to upload to you. To do this upload-notifier creates a textfile in your upload-directory.


Showing a message when files are uploaded

When this option is checked a message will be shown stating that new files have been uploaded. If you also checked the Explorer-option, you can choose if you want to start Windows Explorer or not.


Playing a sound when files are uploaded

When this option is checked Upload-Notifier will play a sound to inform you that new files have been uploaded.


Starting Windows Explorer or Windows File Manager
Starting Explorer or File Manager

When this option is checked and new files have been uploaded, Upload Notifier will start a Windows Explorer-window with your upload-directory. This way you can see immediately which files have been uploaded.

If you did not check the "Show Message"-option, Explorer will be started immediately. Elseway it will only start if you push the Yes-button.

If Explorer shows weird data in your upload-directory, the user may still be busy uploading files. Check later again. (Minimize the Explorer-window).


Create text-file
Letting the user know how much free space is available.

This option, if checked, creates a text-file in your upload-directory that shows the users how much free space is available in your upload directory (the disc-drive that it's in).

You can specify the filename of this text-file yourself. Unfortunately you can't use long filenames, In the 32-bit version you can. It will be available soon.

The Tolerance-scroll-bar let's you specify which change in free diskspace will make Upload Notifier update the free-space textfile. As the change of the textfile itself may change the amount of free space on your disk, this tolerance is adjustable. But, don't worry to much about it, the filesize of your textfile will only change if it grows larger than a whole number of kilobytes (that's MS-DOS, I'm afraid).

You can create your own text.

The text-file that will be appended with data to show the amount of free space has to be called: "FreeSpac.txt", and it has to be in the directory that Upload Notifier is in.

You can type any text, as long as it doesn't contain (exactly) four dollar-characters in a row.

At the place you want the free-space data placed, you need to place the text "$$$$" (That's why you can't put four dollar-characters in your text. Upload Notifier will place it's data in the place of the first row of four dollar-characters).


The OK-button
Accepting the changes

Sigh...

Yes, to keep all the changes that you made, you will have to press the OK-button...

There is also a Cancel-button

And don't feel threatened by that dialog-box that sometimes appears that there are files in your upload-directory. For some reason the ..- and the .-directories are also counted, and honestly, I don;t care.


The Cancel-button
Discarding changes

Sigh... (again...)

Yes, to ignore all the changes you made, you will have to press the Cancel-button...

There is also a OK-button.

Don't feel strange if several pop-up windows will disturb your thoughts. In that case you didn't enter anything at all, which is unacceptable. Starting the application means that you want to check your upload-directory now and then. Even if you don't have any.