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I'm heading to sunny Seattle for the rest of the week so no updates until then.

I've gotten some nibbles from at least 4 people on the upstreamer. That isn't all 7 of you out there but I guess this will do :)

I'll start on it this weekend or sometime early next week. Hopefully it will go fast as I already have the FTP code.

Gary Burd suggested a combo of ssh, rsync and a crontab entry. It looks like you can install RSync on windows if you try hard enough. However, I don't have that much control over all of the machines that I want to upload to, so this looks like a non-starter -- at least for me. Getting a more secure connection would be nice, though.

I also was thinking about taking advantage of the shadow copy stuff in XP but it looks like you need to sign an NDA to get at that SDK. Oh well.

I want to gauge interest in a new project. How many of you out there (and I know there are something like 7 of you :) would actually use a utility that did the following:

• Had a list of local directories and FTP servers/paths
• Monitored those dirs (timer or file change notifications) for changes.
• Upstream new files (based on file times) to the FTP server. This wouldn't be a full sync but would rather be a copy. It would never delete anything from the server.
• Has a tray icon to let you know what is going on.

BTW, this is a feature stolen almost verbatim from Radio. I think that it would be useful to break it out into its own utility.

The real reason I would want this is that frickin' VS.Net doesn't have a way to deply an ASP.Net application to an FTP server. You can copy it or use FP extentions, but you can't FTP that guy up there.

I would include source and an installer for this guy.

If you are interested, email me at eightypercent at bedafamily.com and I'll think about putting something together.