Recorded Profiles
The activities you
generally perform while
working with any file
transfer can be recorded
and saved as an
Automated Profile that can be
scheduled so that
the recorded actions
would be carried out
automatically at a
specified time. This
way, you are spared the
trouble of manually
perform tasks like
deleting, moving and
renaming files at
regular intervals.
Let us understand how to
record different actions
and save and edit a
recorded profile.
The Quick Connect
File Manager has two
separate panes for
folder 1 and folder 2.
Folder 1 is ‘
C:\Website’
which is located on my
computer and folder 2 is
‘
/Media’ located
on an FTP server. When
click on the green
Record button,
located in between the
two panes, the button
turns red to indicate
that recording is in
progress.
The actions I perform
i.e.
Transfer,
Delete,
Rename,
Move etc. are
recorded. After the work
is done, I press on the
red
Record button
to stop recording. The
Save Recorded Profile dialog opens. I name the
profile “My FTP Tasks”
and click
Save.
This profile appears in
the
Automated
Transfer Profile list. Right-click on it
and select
Edit
Profile. Click on
the
Transfer tab.
The
List of recorded
actions is shown.
Use the up and down
arrow buttons to arrange
the order in which the
actions would be
performed. You can run
the recorded profile to
perform the recorded
tasks manually by
right-clicking on the
profile name and
selecting
Start
Transfer. To allow
it to perform tasks
automatically, click the
Configure button
and set a
Schedule. If you
feel that the recorded
actions are not enough,
you can click on the
Add button and
include more actions.
You can choose an action
you want to add. In this
example, a selected file
from the local folder
would be transferred to
the FTP folder.
Now that we have seen
how to use the record
feature in Auto FTP
Manager, you can easily
perceive its benefits.
You do not need to go
through the entire
process of creating a
profile by specifying
the folders between
which the transfer would
take place. There is no
need to specify FTP
connection and other
details. Actions that
you perform
repeatedly/regularly get
executed automatically
when you run the
profile. What’s more,
you can take the
automation to the next
level by scheduling the
recorded profile so that
it independently
performs the exact tasks
you want at the exact
time.