QRecall

James Bucanek wrote:

Peter N Lewis wrote:Are there plans to make this automatic?

It's an interesting idea, but I don't have any plans to implement actions that target multiple archives, primarily because I don't see any way of implementing such a feature without creating a lot of ambiguities. (Ambiguities and backups aren't a good mix.)

It seems to me, if your Archive field allowed multiple selections like the Items to Capture does, you'd be able to do this within QRecall rather than the hackish solution of duplicating all actions?

You're capturing to two archives, so you should have two sets of actions—one set for each archive. Duplicating the first set of actions isn't so much of a "hack" as it is simply a way of saving time when setting up the second set of actions (as opposed to creating the second set from scratch too).

I'm not sure how its ambiguous - it captures to the first archive that is available (or if you prefer, it captures to all archives that are available, which would make sense too - rerun the action for each specified archive).

It becomes a hack when you have three or four rotating backups, and need to create three or four copies of each action on each Mac.

What happens when you want to add a new excluded folder? You have to add it on three or four actions. Same if you want to change the schedule.

James Bucanek wrote:
Select all of the action for archive A and click the "duplicate" button at the bottom of the actions window, and then click on the "edit" button. In each action, change the archive from A to B. When saving do not let QRecall update the archive for all similar actions, else it will "fix" the ones for archive A.

Are there plans to make this automatic? It seems to me, if your Archive field allowed multiple selections like the Items to Capture does, you'd be able to do this within QRecall rather than the hackish solution of duplicating all actions?