Hi Guys.I'm not a techie so be gentle with me.
I'm a support worker for adults with autism and learning disabilities. One of my clients creates lovely artwork in MSPaint, but he won't rename his pictures, or save them to different files or allow us to do so. When he wants to create a new series of pictures he just draws directly over existing pictures. His art folder has BMPs named "copyofcopyofcopyofcopyof001" for example.
What I'd like to do is create rules to automatically detect changes made to the BMPs in his folder, and save them to new folders renamed with date/time/whatever, so we can incrementally create an archive of completed artwork.
The aim ultimately is to show him framed prints to encourage him to care about his work and hopefully to agree to display it in the house and gift it to friends and relatives.
Apologies if this is either obvious or impossible within FreeFileSync but as you can probably tell, I'm outside my comfort zone.
Your help would be gratefully accepted, and there may be a picture in it for you ;D
Auto-detect content and save to renamed folder
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Shouldn't be hard to do:
1. create a ffs_batch job (probably "mirror") to some location
2. For deletion handling choose "versioning" and naming convention "Time stamp"
3. Load the ffs_batch job into RealtimeSync which will execute the sync each time it detects a change (= save operation in MS Paint)
For more info see help file chapters "Versioning" and "RealtimeSync" - but that's only needed if the above is not clear enough.
1. create a ffs_batch job (probably "mirror") to some location
2. For deletion handling choose "versioning" and naming convention "Time stamp"
3. Load the ffs_batch job into RealtimeSync which will execute the sync each time it detects a change (= save operation in MS Paint)
For more info see help file chapters "Versioning" and "RealtimeSync" - but that's only needed if the above is not clear enough.
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I suspect that as with many knowledgeable people you find it hard to imagine just how dense a layman like me can actually be :)
Having said that, after much headscratching and swearing, I've got it running as a background service. I took a while to realise I couldn't have my "deletions" in the same folder as my mirror without constantly renaming files until the PC crashed, and I had a bit of difficulty configuring the scheduled task.
Still, now I've worked out what your program is actually doing, I can see how powerful and versatile it is. Thanks very much for it, and your speedy response.
Phil.
Having said that, after much headscratching and swearing, I've got it running as a background service. I took a while to realise I couldn't have my "deletions" in the same folder as my mirror without constantly renaming files until the PC crashed, and I had a bit of difficulty configuring the scheduled task.
Still, now I've worked out what your program is actually doing, I can see how powerful and versatile it is. Thanks very much for it, and your speedy response.
Phil.
