[ZendTo] Re: Automated drop offs

[Jules]

As Aleksandrov says, you would still have to create the drop-off each 
time, but you can easily make the files that go into the drop-off update 
themselves.

Even Windows (and Mac of course) can mount a webdav path as a filesystem 
(or Drive letter on Windows). So if you use the "Library" feature of 
ZendTo, and automatically upload the correct file every night to the 
library location on the ZendTo server, you can create a drop-off that 
doesn't involve anyone uploading a file.

And anyone downloading the drop-off will automatically get the latest 
version of the file, not just the version that was posted when the 
drop-off was created. When you add a library file to a drop-off in 
ZendTo, it just makes a link to the file, it does not duplicate the 
entire file (which would be very wasteful of space). So every time you 
download the file from the drop-off, you automatically get the *latest* 
version of the file, regardless of the age of the drop-off itself.

I hope that helps a bit.

Jules.

On 17/01/2014 17:42, Artyom Aleksandrov wrote:
>
> Hello, yes I am using simple python script to update files via webdav 
> in zendto library.
>
> It provides me the ability to share changing files via Zendto with 
> permanent links.
>
> On the other side, webdav is just another transport than ftp. But I 
> sure it's more elegant in this case.
>
> On Jan 16, 2014 10:17 PM, "John Thurston" <john.thurston at alaska.gov 
> <mailto:john.thurston at alaska.gov>> wrote:
>
>     I have a customer who would like to schedule the drop of some
>     files each
>     night. Right now, they use ftp to batch upload some files which humans
>     later download one at a time.
>
>     Has anyone already figured out how to do this?
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