Hi,

I think something must be broken in the filemask routine, since *.* as filemask
does not pick up files without extension. It fails both in filetriggers, and in copy tasks.

I have tested this in version 6.06, but it was also in earlier versions.


Svein H.

Oslo

If you want to pick up something without extension you cannot use *.* because that implies that there is a . (extension). Use just * if you want to find all.

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I have experienced this problem too, as we were having a couple of jobs that stopped transferring files after upgrading VisualCron. This was because the files didn't have extensions and VisualCron at some point changed behavior, so that '*.*' no longer gives you all files, but only files with a dot in file name.

The *nix people is going to welcome this change because this is known stuff on Linux/Unix systems. However, the Windows people would probably expect '*.*' to give them everything because this is what they are used to on the command line etc.

This change in behavior happened at some point after version 5.7.4 (not sure exactly when).

May I suggest, that the default filter mask is changed to a single '*'?
I believe most people would expect the default filter to include all files, with or without an extension.

Best regards
Ernst Mikkelsen
Trifork A/S

We have now changed default value to *.

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I agree, default * is better for us used to writing MS batch scripts.

thks

Svein H