What
iClose-Up Scripts are: Scripts allow you to automate routine or complex file transfers. Any time you find that you are doing
repetitive tasks like sending or fetching files with iClose-Up, you can make a
script file to do it for you. The
Script will make the connection for you whether it is Internet or Modem. The Script will send, fetch, synchronize or
backup your files or folders. The
Script will take care of problems that could arise like retrying a busy number
or reconnecting a dropped modem line. The
Script will even give you a report of what it did. Of course you can schedule Scripts with the iClose-Up Scheduler
so they can do your work for you, while you sleep!
There are two
ways to make iClose-Up Script Files.
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First way: The iClose-Up Quick Script is
the easiest way to make an iClose-Up Script on an Internet or on a Modem to
Modem connection. When you connect to
another iClose-Up computer and select iClose-Up Quick File Transfer you can then select the Files/Folder you want to transfer from your
Source, then select your Destination, and then press the Save as Script button. iClose-Up will save this as a Script, because
when you use iClose-Up to connect and either set up to do a file transfer or
actually do a file transfer, iClose-Up will memorize what you did and give you
the option to save it as a Script File. See Getting
Started with Quick Scripts.
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Second way: The iClose-Up Script Wizard should
be used when you want to make an iClose-Up Script on your Network to a computer
that does not have to have iClose-Up on it.
You would also want to use the iClose-Up Script Wizard to make a script
to backup your computers hard drive to a mass storage device like a CD or Zip
drive. You can also if you want to use
the iClose-Up Script Wizard to make a script on an Internet or on a Modem to
Modem connection to a computer with iClose-Up on it. See Getting
Started with Script Wizard.
Edit
Scripts: After
you make a script you can edit it in iClose-Up’s editor which allows you to add
advanced options to your script, or you can edit your script in a work
processor since iClose-Up scripts are simple text files. You can use iClose-Up’s Editor by right
clicking on the red iClose-Up triangles in the lower right of your screen and
select Change an iClose-Up Script.
Script
Files for delayed Transfers: You can use the iClose-Up
Scheduler to run a Script File at any future time and date. You can schedule the script to say run every
weekday at ten at night. When you come
in, in the morning, you can look at the Script Log file that was created to see
how your transfers went. To see the
Script Log file, right click on the red iClose-Up triangles in the lower
right of your screen and select View iClose-Up Logs then select View Script Logs and finally select the Script Log you want to see. (iClose-Up appends the date each day to the
name of the Script Log.)
Creating
a Script by Hand:
iClose-Up Script Files can also
be made by hand without using iClose-Up’s wizard, using a word processor or
text editor. We do not recommend that
you create Script Files this way, but if you still want to, we recommend that
you first use the iClose-Up wizard to create a few scripts so you can
familiarize yourself with the syntax for iClose-Up Script Files.
Verifying
your script:
After you make a script you should use iClose-Up’s Verify option before
you run your script. This option allows
you to run a script where the connections and passwords are verified. And the files and folders are counted and
the number of files that would be transferred and the number that would be
skipped, and the number that would be moved with the Mirror Image Backup option
are logged. Note that no action
(iClose-Up commands that change a computers state) such as file transfers is
actually executed. In addition the
Retry Failures option is not executed during a Verify session. To run the Verify option you would proceed
as though you are going to run your script and iClose-Up will present you with
the opportunity to Verify your script instead.