Thanks! Now at least the "why" is answered, only the "how" remains. 😉 I guess there is no workaround in WinSCP itself.
- King555
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- martin
Ok, indeed before 6.4.1, the
This unwanted and undocumented behaviour (which I didn't even know about until now) was lost with upgrade to a new compiler/IDE in 6.4.1.
Now the
<*2024-11-09* was interpreted the same way as <2024-11-09 – i.e. as a time constraint – not the way you want.
This unwanted and undocumented behaviour (which I didn't even know about until now) was lost with upgrade to a new compiler/IDE in 6.4.1.
Now the
<*2024-11-09* is correctly considered invalid. As it should have always been.
- King555
Sorry for double posting, but I cannnot edit as a guest. I just checked WinSCP version 6.3.6 and I do not get an error message there! So there was a change in any way.
- King555
I knew this reply would come. 😉
I can guarantee that I used this file mask without an error message for years. I even have it dozens of times in my history for that input field. I can only imagine that the asterisks were ignored a few versions ago, which means
And it's about the GUI.
Is there any other way to achieve my goal (with WinSCP)?
I can guarantee that I used this file mask without an error message for years. I even have it dozens of times in my history for that input field. I can only imagine that the asterisks were ignored a few versions ago, which means
<*2024-11-09* was identical to <2024-11-09 (and that would mean that I always filtered for the file date).
And it's about the GUI.
Is there any other way to achieve my goal (with WinSCP)?
- martin
Re: Filter files (via a file mask) whose filenames are lower than something (e.g <*2024-11-09*)
It is not possible and it never was.
Is this about GUI or scripting?
Is this about GUI or scripting?
- King555
Filter files (via a file mask) whose filenames are lower than something (e.g <*2024-11-09*)
I always used this as a file mask for filtering files on an SFTP storage:
This showed me all the files whose filenames (not dates!) were before
Now this does not work anymore, the mask is invalid and I get an error message. The documentation also tells me that is is not possible.
First question: When did this behaviour change? There is nothing in the changelog.
Second question: How do I achieve what I'm trying to do? I need to delete a lot of files. I cannot use the date, because the upload date is not always the backup date (due to errors on my server's side).
<*2024-11-09*
This showed me all the files whose filenames (not dates!) were before
*2024-11-09*, e.g. backup_2024-11-08.tar.
Now this does not work anymore, the mask is invalid and I get an error message. The documentation also tells me that is is not possible.
First question: When did this behaviour change? There is nothing in the changelog.
Second question: How do I achieve what I'm trying to do? I need to delete a lot of files. I cannot use the date, because the upload date is not always the backup date (due to errors on my server's side).