Shared File Updater

When you're in a network environment, and you often need to update files that are being used by others (executables that are placed in a common directory for example), you don't want to tell everyone to quit the program and wait 1 minute to start it again.

Since these updates are often forgotten ("I'll do it when everyone's logged off"), you want to be reminded, or even better, you want to have them done automatically. With the Shared File Updater you can tell which files you want to update. It also enables you to create a backup file (or rather: a copy of the new one) for versioncontrol purposes. The only requirement for versionbackups is that the versionnumber is compiled in the executable (most compilers do or allow that).

Remember that this is a program still under development. It doesn't really handle the possible errors in a nice way. Errors copying are considered to be errors due to a busy file, and ignored. The program will simply try again after a minute (or any other amount of seconds).

Newest version includes TaskTray (Hide) option and uses the TrayIcon to show what it's current status is (Yellow means idle, Red means busy).

Go to the Downloads page to download a beta version of SF Updater.

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Last updated: november 25th 2001.