FTP failure

Hello,

I work as a press photographer and use Hazel on my home server to send pictures out to a list of FTP addresses once an image is added to a watched folder.

When a file is added to a watched folder the image is then sent to a list of FTP addresses in the way of a series of upload actions.

This works fine, however, it seems if just one of the FTP servers is down or a login fails then Hazel won’t move on.

Is there a way to have a timeout where if a connection can’t be established within a set time then Hazel will move on to the next in the list of actions?

At the moment, no. Actions have to run successfully before the next one does.

Only way around it, short of writing a script is to do something like:
- Have a separate folder for each FTP server
- Have the main folder copy the file to each folder.
- Have each "FTP folder" then do the upload.

Doing it this way will have each upload be independent.

Thanks - that’s a good enough solution for me!

This is a solution that's almost working for me aside from one niggling little problem that is driving me crazy.

The files are copied to the individual folders but the final step - moving the file to an archive folder - isn't working.

Am I doing something wrong here?

https://imgur.com/a/Xa88Jsi

When using the Copy action, subsequent actions operate on the copy, not the original.

You can either start with a Move, then Copies after that. Or you can use the Sync action, which operates differently. Actions after a Sync action will operate on the original.

Mr_Noodle wrote:When using the Copy action, subsequent actions operate on the copy, not the original.

You can either start with a Move, then Copies after that. Or you can use the Sync action, which operates differently. Actions after a Sync action will operate on the original.

Working perfectly!