DropIt

Lupo73 · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2011 6:08 am

Second beta release of next version:
http://www.lupopensuite.com/files/dropi ... rtable.zip
http://www.lupopensuite.com/files/dropi ... Source.zip

It includes fixes of known bugs and some new features, in particular improved messages and a reorganized Options window with new "Lists" tab (thanks to tproli now DropIt allows to create lists with different themes!) :wink:

Lupo73 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 23, 2011 1:32 am

Stable version 3.8 released!

It includes a lot of improvements and new features: shared folders support (with UNC paths), HTML list themes (a great set of 10 themes by tproli!), Context Menu integration from Options (with Portable Mode available), support to duplicate associations in a profile (with the improved "Copy to") and various improvements to process messages (to easily stop process and to apply decisions to all items).
With this new version your experience with DropIt will be much better than before. :wink:

Lupo73 · **Posted:** Thu Nov 24, 2011 2:47 pm

If automatic update does not work fine, manually update DropIt copying "Profiles" folder and "settings.ini" file from the previous release (or installing the last release). I'm working to improve update system in next version to avoid importing issues.

webfork · **Posted:** Sun Nov 27, 2011 2:26 pm

Lupo73 wrote:

It includes a lot of improvements and new features: shared folders support (with UNC paths)

Sorry if this has already been addressed, but is there any chance that the program will support FTP/SFTP in the future? Along the lines of DropUpload? For example, I have two FTP servers and I'd like to upload one type of files to one server (random file dump site), another group of archive files (zip, 7z, etc.) to a backup site.

I know there's a way to set up an FTP site to an external drive like NetDrive (freeware, FTP only) or ExpanDrive (commercial, supports SFTP), but I'd of course like something easy, open, portable, and of course manages the files intelligently the way DropIt does.

tproli · **Posted:** Sun Nov 27, 2011 10:16 pm

I did not test it but I think it is possible using 3rd party apps like WinSCP, using the "Open with" feature of DropIt.
Simply create 2 (or more) associations and set your ftp application as the target, and add your servers to the commandline.

Here is a blog post about using "Open with" with command line:
Line Up With Command Line

Please report if this works or you have found a better solution, perhaps it is worth to make a new blog post.

Lupo73 · **Posted:** Mon Nov 28, 2011 9:17 am

FTP support is not planned for the near future, but it is included in ToDo list. It needs a complex section for configurations and I'm not really expert about it.
Anyway this and other features could be easily integrated with external tools, like described by tproli. For example if someone know a good, small and open source command-line tool for FTP support, we could consider to add it in a separated package. An idea could be to create a package with tools and relative DropIt profiles already configured for the use (ftp, upx, etc.)

webfork · **Posted:** Mon Nov 28, 2011 10:42 am

Lupo73 wrote:

FTP support is not planned for the near future, but it is included in ToDo list.

Thanks Lupo and tproli.

kuihdez · **Joined:** Sat Jun 07, 2008 4:32 am **Posts:** 87

I have been a follower for this project for quite some time now and I've seen how powerful it can get.

I am trying to do the following with the program.

Sort TV Episodes and images.

I want the program to popup a list when i drop images to it that displays : -Art IMages- -Wallapapers- -ect-

I also would like the program, if possible, to display ALL subfolders from within a folder. I want him to display a list of all subfolders inside the images folder so that i can move my fils into.

That way, I don't have to resort and change the associations each time I change the folders inside the main folder.

For example I create an association for *.jpg and stick a move to action and the destination would be one of the subfolders of the MAIN image folder.

Is that possible with dropit ?

I am also trying to move all files up a directory.

I often get c:\rared\rarfilename\files

I would like to move them to c:\rared\files

Lupo73 · **Posted:** Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:32 am

If I correctly understand, you would like to associate a folder as destination and be able to manually select one of its subfolders where move files into.. currently it is not possible, but I could consider to implement it..

About the second request, try to use %ParentDir% environment variable and let me know if it is what you need..

tproli · **Posted:** Sat Dec 10, 2011 8:40 am

A new variable like %BrowseDir% would be handy in such situations. So there would be no need to hard-code the destination path but a folder browse dialog would pop up on each drop.

kuihdez · **Joined:** Sat Jun 07, 2008 4:32 am **Posts:** 87

Lupo73 wrote:

If I correctly understand, you would like to associate a folder as destination and be able to manually select one of its subfolders where move files into.. currently it is not possible, but I could consider to implement it..

About the second request, try to use %ParentDir% environment variable and let me know if it is what you need..

Yes, that is exactly what I need.

Also, I have sometimes multiples destinations for a jpg. What I would like is to add two associations, both *.jpg, when i drag files into it, dropit will detect a conflict and will enable me to select which one i want.

Or maybe specify a list of folders to move the file to.

the %parentdir% does not work. When I select it, it copies to the same directory. Not one up.

Lupo73 · **Posted:** Sat Dec 10, 2011 10:22 am

I could consider to add %BrowseDir% variable.. and I'll try to find a solution to improve %ParentDir% variable..

Instead of BrowseDir, you could try also another solution for it:
1. create an association with one of the desired subfolders as destination
2. right-click the created association and "Copy to" the same profile to duplicate the association
3. modify the destination of the new association with another desired subfolder
4. do the same for all desired subfolders

Now when you will drop files that match with these associations, you could select the desired destination from the Select Action window..

tproli · **Posted:** Sat Dec 10, 2011 11:04 am

"%ParentDir%\..\" should copy one dir up.

kuihdez · **Joined:** Sat Jun 07, 2008 4:32 am **Posts:** 87

Lupo73 wrote:

I could consider to add %BrowseDir% variable.. and I'll try to find a solution to improve %ParentDir% variable..

Instead of BrowseDir, you could try also another solution for it:
1. create an association with one of the desired subfolders as destination
2. right-click the created association and "Copy to" the same profile to duplicate the association
3. modify the destination of the new association with another desired subfolder
4. do the same for all desired subfolders

Now when you will drop files that match with these associations, you could select the desired destination from the Select Action window..

When I Do that, it tells me that the association is already there and if I want to replace it.

Lupo73 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2011 2:39 am

Can you post a screenshot of that message? Are you using the last stable release?

DropIt

Who is online