You can configure Auto FTP Manager to turn off the PC when transfers are completed. Create an automated transfer profile to configure the PC shut down function. See this link for creating a connection profile: https://www.deskshare.com/help/afm/what-is-a-profile.aspx While creating a connection profile, select the ‘Turn off Computer’ option from the Automated Transfer Settings. [image: AFMpost5909.jpg] Once the automated transfer is completed, the PC will be turned off after 30 seconds. Note: Whether the file transfer is successful or unsuccessful, the PC will be turned off after completion of the transfer.

The Conflict Resolution option in Auto FTP Manager allows you to overwrite the files only when the source file size is larger. To set the Conflict Resolution, right click on the Automated Transfer profile listed in the left side panel and select the ‘Edit Profile’ option. Go to the Automated Transfer Settings page, select the ‘Overwrite if size is larger’ option from the conflict resolution drop down list. Click next and complete the settings. [image: AFMpost5896.jpg] Right click on the profile name and start the automated transfer. When the size of a file being transferred is larger than the existing file on the local folder, then the smaller file will be replaced by the larger one.

You should use the filter for Modification date in Auto FTP Manager. This will allow you to transfer the files that were modified today and exclude others. To add a Filter, right click on the Automated Transfer profile listed in the left side panel on the UI and select the ‘Edit Profile’ option. First, you will have to create a connection profile. Go to the Automated Transfer Settings page and click on the Configure button under the File and Folder Filters section. Select the ‘Modification Date’ filter type. By default it is set to include the files that have changed today. Click OK to save the settings. [image: AFMpost5883.jpg] Right click on the profile name and start the automated transfer. You will notice that, only files which are modified today are downloaded.

You can use the File Name filter option in Auto FTP Manager to download files having a single character in the file name. First, create the Automated transfer profile from File >> New Connection Profile. Enter the details required to connect to the FTP server, including FTP address, port number and authentication details. On the Automated Transfer Settings page, select the option to transfer files from ‘FTP server’ to ‘PC folder’. Go to the File and Folders Filters section and click on the Configure button. [image: AFMpost5628.jpg] Select the File Name filter type and set it to Include file names matching the wildcard. Enter the pattern as “?.txt” and “?.doc” separated by a semicolon. A question mark "?" matches any one character, so all the file names with single character will be included. Click Ok to save the filter settings. Move to the next page, and enter the profile name to complete the profile creation process. [image: AFMpost5868.jpg] A profile name will be listed on the left side panel, right click on it and start the automated transfer. The files having names like a.txt and 7.doc will be downloaded. You can also add a schedule to start the transfer.

Auto FTP Manager can automatically download files from your FTP server on a specified time interval. This is done with the help of the built in Scheduler in Auto FTP Manager. To add a schedule for file transfer, you have to create an automated transfer profile. Go to File >> New Connection Profile. On the create connection profile dialog, select the Automated Profile option. On the next page, provide the details required to connect to the FTP server. On the action rules page, select the option to download files from your FTP server. Next, click on the Configure button under the Schedule Transfers section. Select the Daily schedule and enter the start date along with the time. Configure it to repeat after every 5 hours. Click OK and Next button to complete the settings. [image: AFMpost5857.jpg] The schedule will run at your specified time and the files will be automatically downloaded from the FTP server every 5 hours.

Auto FTP Manager can start a file transfer whenever a file in a monitored PC folder is changed. This can be done using the On Folder Change option in the Scheduler. Lets assume you have a connection profile created. If you have not created a connection profile then refer the help file to see how to create an automated transfer profile. Next, you have to configure Schedule Transfers. Choose the On Folder Change schedule option. Browse the folder which you want to monitor for changes. Select the check box to perform a transfer when a file is modified or renamed. You can also add a wait time after a file change is made with the help of Wait N minutes before starting transfer option. Click Ok and the next button to finish the settings. [image: AFMpost5842.jpg] Whenever you rename a file in the monitored folder, the file transfer will start after the specified wait interval.

A schedule in Auto FTP Manager automatically starts the file transfer process at a specified time even though the application is closed. You can also use Login to run the schedule even if your system is logged off option. This can be set when configuring the schedule. It allows a scheduled profile to run even when there is no user logged into Windows at the scheduled time. Enabling this option will require you to enter the Windows password for the current logged in user. Note: This option is not available for ‘On Application Launch’ and ‘On Folder Change’ schedules. [image: Schedule.png] Once you add a schedule, you can close Auto FTP Manager. The schedule will start at desired time, even though Auto FTP Manager is not running.

Auto FTP Manager lets you create multiple profiles to connect to the same FTP server. You can also create one connection profile and quickly make a duplicate of the original profile, then modify the folder selection. Lets assume you have a connection profile created. If you have not created a connection profile then refer the help file to see how to create an automated transfer profile. [image: FTP_details.png] When you create a connection profile, it will be listed in the left side panel. Right click on the profile name and select the Duplicate Profile option. You can edit the duplicated profile and change the FTP folder location, action rules and profile name. See this link for more details about Automated Transfer rules: https://www.deskshare.com/help/afm/WhatIsAutomatedTransfer.aspx

Use the File and Folder Filter in Auto FTP Manager to automatically download files greater than 50MB or any size you specify. To configure these settings, right click on the profile name listed in the left panel and select the Edit Profile option. Navigate to the **‘Specify Automated Transfer Settings’ **page. Look for the File and Folder Filters section and click on the Configure button. [image: AFMpost5803.jpg] Select the File Size filter option and set it to Include file size greater than 50 MB. Click Ok to save your settings, and navigate to the next page to finish. [image: AFMpost5803_1.jpg] When you now start the automated transfer, only the files having a size greater than 50 MB will be downloaded.

You can skip the transfer of specific folders from the root directory using Auto FTP Managers' File and Folder filters settings. To do this, first create an automated transfer profile. On the action rules page, select the option to download files from the FTP server. Next, add filters for your automated transfer profile. Go to the Files and Folder filters section and click on the Configure button. Tick the ‘Select folders to exclude’ checkbox and click the Exclude folders button under the FTP section. Choose the folders you want to exclude from the transfer. Click OK and save the changes. [image: Exclude_subfolders.png] To automate the transfer process, configure a schedule for this profile. Look for the Schedule Transfers section and click on Configure button, select the schedule type, and enter the start date and time. Click Ok to save the settings. Navigate to the next page and finish the settings. [image: Schedule.png] The schedule will run at a specified date and time. The files will be downloaded from all the folders except the excluded folders.

Auto FTP Manager allows you to set the number of attempts for login to a FTP server. This retry setting is helpful when you are connecting to a busy FTP server. To set retry login attempts, go to File >> Settings. On the Connection tab, look for the On Connection Failure section. Increase the Retry login attempts and set a delay between each retry attempt before aborting. Auto FTP Manager will try to login to the FTP server for the number of times you specify. [image: connection_settings.png] The Keep alive settings in Auto FTP Manager are useful to maintain a connection with the FTP server. It prevents disconnection by regularly sending a command that does not do anything. Note: Some FTP servers do not support the NOOP command and can disconnect even after receiving the NOOP command regularly. For such FTP servers, it is recommended to use the PWD command to keep the connection alive.

Use the File and Folder Filters in Auto FTP Manager to skip certain types of files from transferring. This feature allows you to prevent the download of 0 KB files. To configure the settings for File and Folder filters, you have to create an Automated transfer profile. Go to File >> New Connection Profile. Set the connection profile type to Automated Profile. On the next page, enter the details required to connect to the FTP server including FTP address, username and password. On the Action rules page, select the transfer action for downloading files. [image: AFMpost5769.jpg] Next, look for the File and Folder filters section and click on the Configure button. Select the File Size filter and set it to Exclude file size equal to 0 KB. Click the OK button to save your settings. [image: AFMpost5769_1.jpg] To automate the transfer process, add a schedule. Go to the Schedule Transfers section and click on the Configure button. Choose the schedule type and start date-time as needed. Move to the next page, enter the profile name and click on Create button. Now, whenever the schedule will run the files will be downloaded except the 0 KB files.

Auto FTP Manager allows you to maintain same files on two folder locations using the action rule for synchronization. The Scheduler will help you to synchronize these folders regularly. To configure the settings, create an automated transfer profile. Go to File >> New Connection Profile. Choose the transfer type as PC to FTP server and profile type as Automated Profile. Navigate to the next page and enter the details required to connect to the FTP server. Click the Next button and look for the Action rules section. Select the Synchronize source and destination folder option. This option will make sure that files present in both the folders are exactly same. [image: AFMpost5759.jpg] Under the Schedule Transfers section, click on the Configure button. Select the schedule type as Daily with a repeat interval of a few minutes or hours as required. Click Ok to save these settings. [image: AFMpost5759_1.jpg] The schedule will run every N minutes / hours and the selected folders will be synchronized each time. If the files are not present in one folder then they are transferred from the other folder.

Use Auto FTP Manager's built in Scheduler to upload files to your FTP server automatically. To update files every hour you will need to create an automated transfer profile. Go to File >> New Connection Profile. Select the connection profile type as Automated Profile. Enter the required details to establish a connection with the FTP server. On the next page, go to the Action rules section and select the option to upload files to FTP server. [image: AFMpost5748.jpg] To add a schedule, look for the Schedule Transfers section and click the Configure button. Select the Schedule type as Daily. Specify the start date - time and set the Repeat after every option to 1 hour. On the next page, enter the profile name and click the Create button to save these settings. [image: AFMpost5748_1.jpg] Now, the schedule will start at a specified time and the files will be uploaded to the FTP server every hour.

Use the Conflict Resolution options in Auto FTP Manager to replace the old file on the destination when the source location has the same file with a newer date. Conflict Resolution options are configured on an automated transfer profile. If you have already created the connection profile, right click on the profile name in the left panel and select the Edit profile option. Make sure you have selected Automated profile for the File Transfer type. Navigate to the next page and look for the Conflict Resolution section. Select ‘Overwrite if date is newer’ option from the drop down list. Click the Next button and finish the settings. [image: AFMpost5738.jpg] Once the settings are configured, right click on the profile name and select Start automated transfer. If the source file being transferred was created after the existing destination file, then the old file will get replaced with the new one.

Auto FTP Manager allows you to download only those files which contain strings you specify by using the Files and Folders filter option. First, create an Automated profile for downloading files from the FTP server and then you can configure the filters for that profile. To create a automated transfer profile, click File >> New Connection Profile. Select the connection profile type as Automated Profile. [image: AFMpost5521.jpg] Enter the FTP details such as FTP address, port number, username and password. Navigate to the next page, look for the Action rules section and select the transfer actions for downloading files. Next, look for the Files and Folders filters section and click the Configure button. Select the filter for File Name and set it to 'Include file names containing string values'. Enter the words that you want to search in the file name like 'New' and 'review'. Use the semicolon to separate the words. Click OK to save these settings. Go to the next page and click Finish to create a profile with configured settings. [image: AFMpost5726.jpg] Now, whenever you start automated transfer, the files containing the specified strings such as 'New' and 'review' in the file name will be downloaded.

Use the scheduler feature to download files automatically using Auto FTP Manager. The first step is to create an Automated profile to transfer files from your FTP server and the second step is to create a schedule for that profile. To create an automated transfer profile, click File >> New Connection Profile. Select the connection profile type as Automated Profile. Enter the FTP details such as FTP address, port number, username and password. Navigate to the next page, look for the Action rules section and select the transfer action to download to your PC. [image: AFMpost5712.jpg] In the Schedule Transfers section, click on the Configure button. You can select a daily or weekly schedule. The **Daily **schedule will download files every day. In the Weekly schedule you can select particular days of the week for transfer. Set the start date and time for the schedule. After creating the schedule, click on the **Next **button, and enter a Profile name to finish the settings. [image: AFMpost5712_1.jpg] Once complete, the schedule will run at the configured time and files will be downloaded from FTP server automatically.

Auto FTP Manager allows you transfer files to and from FTP server manually or automatically. Using the Quick Connect profile, you can manually transfer files between the source and destination using the built-in file manager. Add the files to the transfer queue and start the transfer. The files can be dragged from one panel and dropped to other making the transfer easy. Using the Automated transfer profile, you can transfer files from the source to destination based on automated transfer rules. You can configure file and folder filters, schedule the transfer, save or send a transfer report and much more. When you want to transfer files at specific times automatically then you should choose the automated transfer profile. [image: new_connection.png]

In Auto FTP Manager the default rule is to overwrite files if they are present on the destination. You can maintain a history of file changes by appending the date and time to newer files. This can be done using the Conflict resolution feature. To configure these settings, right click on the automated transfer profile name and select the Edit Profile option. Navigate to the Action rules page. Look for the Conflict resolution section, and choose the Append Date-Time option from the drop down list. [image: AFMpost5683.jpg] Now, whenever you download files from your FTP server, the date and time will be added to the filename. This way the original file will not get overwritten and you can maintain a history of downloaded files.

Auto FTP Manager can select files that match a size. The advanced filters option lets you choose to either transfer only files that match the size or send everything except the size-matched files. First, create an Automated profile. On the menu bar, click File >> New Connection Profile. Select connection profile type as Automated Profile and enter the FTP details. Navigate to the next page and look for the Actions Rule section. Select the option to download or upload files from source to destination. Next, go to the File and Folders Filters section and click the Configure button. Select the File Size filter option, set it to Include file size Equal to '500' MB and click the OK button to save the filter settings. On the next page enter the profile name and click the Create button. [image: AFMpost5670.jpg] Now, whenever you start the automated transfer, the files matching the specified file size will be transferred. Note- Auto FTP Manager provides five type of filters you can set for files during automated transfer such as **Select folders to exclude, Modification Date, File Size, File Name and File Type. **