How to Schedule File Transfers

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You can schedule your file transfer to a later time. When you are trying to download from heavily loaded FTP Servers, it can be more convenient to download files later during the night when there is less Internet traffic. You can have multiple items in the queue scheduled for transfer at different times and to/from different servers.

There are two ways to schedule a file transfer:

Schedule 1:

1.	Select the files you want to download from the remote file list

2.	Click the Schedule button in the toolbar

3.	Select Schedule and enter the transfer time and date to the Schedule window that opens

4.	Click the OK button.

Now the files appear in the queue with the clock symbol next to them. They will be transferred at the scheduled time.

NOTICE! 3D-FTP must be running when you have scheduled the transfer, so do not exit the program after scheduling. But you can continue using 3D-FTP normally when there are scheduled items in the queue. In other words, you can connect to other sites, download and upload files and perform all other functions as usual. 3D-FTP will connect to the proper site and transfer the scheduled items automatically in the background at the scheduled time.

Schedule 2:

Populate the queue:

1.	Drag'n drop files to add them to the queue

2.	Add files to the queue from different servers if needed

3.	Mix uploads and downloads in the Queue if needed

Add scheduling:

4.	Select the files in the queue to schedule

5.	Right click the mouse to select Schedule Items from the the pop-up menu

6.	Enter transfer time and date

Repeat steps 4-6 for different queue items to schedule a different transfer time.


Cancelling a scheduled transfer

You can delete the scheduled queue items to cancel a scheduled transfer.

To cancel all items:

·	Click the Clear button on the lower left hand corner of the window

To cancel some items:

1.	Select the items in queue you want to cancel

2.	Right click at the top of the selection

3.	Select Delete Items from the pop-up menu

Recurring Schedules

In addition to the Transfer Once schedule option, you can schedule recurring transfers. The available options are:

·	Transfer Weekly - Select the week day the transfer should occur.

·	Transfer Monthly - Select the months the transfer should occur. You can also select first/last day of the week, select a specific day on the month or the Nth day of the month.

For these options you can select the time of transfer. Options are:

·	At – The transfer occurs at a certain time of day

·	Every – The transfer is repeated every Nth sec/min/hour between selected hours.

In addition to these options, you can specify start and end times and dates for the schedule.

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Schedule folder synchronization