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  Auto FTP Manager v4.12
   
   
  Automate your FTP tasks
   
     
  To maintain a professional website, web masters and other site owners need to keep their web files updated and organized.  Manually transferring files with FTP on a regular can be time-consuming and demanding.  Auto FTP Manager is a powerful FTP client application that allows you to establish a connection to any FTP server and automate file transfer procedures.  Automated Transfer Profiles can automate useful FTP tasks like uploads, synchronizations and cleanups without the need to manually start them.  
   
  Auto FTP Manager - Automated Action Rule Profiles
     
  Let us look at some of the things what Auto FTP Manager can do automatically do for you:  
     
 
  Action Rules define what gets uploaded and downloaded
    Webmasters have many maintenance tasks while uploading or downloading files.
     
    Action Rules help you control what happens during a file transfer operation.  Action Rules instructions for Auto FTP Manager to carry out certain actions depending on the situation, like deleting a file after downloading or uploading, or transferring files that are newer than the file on the server.
     
  Folder synchronization
    Updating web sites and mirroring the contents of two folders is are challenges that web masters face everyday.  Synchronization of folders is a common task for webmasters.  Also known as replication, synchronization of two folders transfers files so that both folders have identical contents.  Using Auto FTP Manager, files are automatically transferred, deleted or replaced to synchronize two folders.
     
  Keeping folders orderly
    Once files have been transferred, they might not be needed anymore.  These files take up valuable space and also affect the structure and organization of your web site.  With Auto FTP Manager you can use Action Rules and the Task Scheduler to automatically delete files as soon as they have been transferred.  This helps you maintain a clean folder structure and a web server that has only relevant files in it.
 
   
  How to create an Automated Transfer Profile,  specify Action Rules and set a Schedule
 
1. Start the Auto FTP Manager.
2. From the File menu, click on New Profile.
3. Select the Automated Transfer option on the New Profile Wizard.  Click on Next.
4. Specify PC Folder or Network Drive Details.  This will be Folder 1 for the transfer process.  You can also Select Sub-Folders and Files to include or exclude during the automated transfer.  Click on Next.
5. Specify the location where you will be transferring files and folders between.  The location could be an FTP server or a Folder on my (your) PC or Network drive.  Choose the location as FTP server.  This is the Folder 2 for the transfer process.  Click Next.
6. Give FTP Connection Details.  Select FTP Folder and Select Sub Folders and Files to include or exclude if you want.  Click Next.
7. Specify Action Rules and set a Schedule to run the automated transfer at a specified time.  Click Next.
8. Name the new profile, select what you would like to do after finishing the wizard, and click Finish.

Profile Scheduler

While you can set a schedule during the process of creating a new Automated Transfer Profile, you can modify the schedule for any profile.  Simply follow the given steps:

1. From the profiles list, right-click on the Automated Transfer Profile whose timing you would like to change.  Click on Schedule Profile.
2. On the Profile Scheduler dialog click the Schedule tab.
3. Perform this Task option lets you specify whether to perform tasks Once, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, On Start Up or at Custom Intervals.  The settings for these options can be specified here.
4. Specify the Start Time for the transfer process to begin.  Click on OK.
     
  NOTE:  For scheduled tasks to run at their scheduled times, keep Auto FTP manager running on your PC.  You can make the program less conspicuous by minimizing it to the System Tray.  To activate this feature, click on File > Settings > General > On close minimize Auto FTP Manager to system tray.  
   
  Scheduled tasks can be done during off hours.  Use the powerful automation features of Auto FTP Manager to schedule transfers at times when network traffic is light.  
     
  Automating routine tasks saves you time and improves reliability.  Make your job easier and more efficient by automating file transfers with Auto FTP Manager.  
     
   
 
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