Automatically start and activate AllSync Scheduler when starting Windows

This causes AllSync Scheduler to be automatically started and activated when Windows is started.

Confirm when shutting down AllSync Scheduler

This option causes a prompt to be shown when shutting down AllSync Scheduler. This prompt is not shown when AllSync Scheduler Service has been started or no task is activated.

Set the application priority to 'low' when starting a task

Activate this option if your system is overburdened while performing a task and other applications are taking too long to respond to user input.

Display progress indicator when starting a task

This option causes the task list to be automatically hidden when starting a task, and the progress indicator to be displayed.

Automatically remove entries from log file when they are more than ... day(s) old

This option causes the log file of AllSync Scheduler (scheduler.log) to be checked every time a task is started and all entries to be removed when they are older than the number of days specified here.

Restore AllSync Scheduler window if an error occurs

This option causes the AllSync Scheduler dialog to be restored and shown in the foreground when errors have occurred during a copy operation.

Reduce hard disk accesses per second

This option enables you to reduce the number of hard disk accesses per second so that other applications do not become sluggish. The pause is specified in milliseconds and takes place when reading the source and destination data after each file/folder found.

Timer Interval

This option enables you to change the interval how often the scheduler check if a task have to be started. The standard value of 950 ms allows a task start time to the second. Example: With a value of 10000 ms the scheduler checks every 10 seconds if a task have to be started. A higher interval value also reduce the CPU usages of the scheduler.

Save window position and size on exit

This option causes the window position of AllSync Scheduler to be saved upon exiting and restored the next time AllSync Scheduler is started.

Display as icon on taskbar when minimized

This option causes the minimized window of AllSync Scheduler to be displayed only as an icon on the taskbar next to the time. You can also specify that the icon be animated during a copy operation.

Show ToolTip on toolbar

This option causes a tool tip to be shown for the toolbar buttons.

Font

Here you can specify the font for the log pane.

Wrap lines in log pane

This causes lines extending beyond the right edge of your screen to be wrapped.

Maximum number of lines in log pane

This option enables you to specify the maximum number of lines in the log pane and thus minimize memory consumption.

This option enables the period to be specified during which all tasks may be started. Any tasks still running outside of the run period can be optionally automatically terminated.

This option only affects tasks with the Shut down Windows startup mode.

Rule for action "Log off user"

You can specify one of the following rules:

• Don't cancel the action and run the tasks
• Cancel the action, run the tasks and log off the user

Rule for action "Restart / shut down Windows"

You can specify one of the following rules:

• Don't cancel the action and run the tasks
• Cancel the action, run the tasks and shut down Windows
• Cancel the action, run the tasks and restart Windows

Rule for action "Standby / Hibernate"

You can specify one of the following rules:

• Cancel the action, run the tasks and start Standby
• Cancel the action, run the tasks and start Hibernate

Show task log upon startup when an error occurred during shutdown

This option causes the log of the last task to be displayed upon starting AllSync Scheduler for which an error occurred.

Increase response time until the Windows shutdown dialog is displayed

This option take effect only under Windows 2000/XP/2003. Activating this option causes the following registry entries to be changed:

• HKCU \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ HungAppTimeout = 500000
• HKCU \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ WaitToKillAppTimeout = 500000
• HKCU \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ AutoEndTasks = 0

Deactivating this option changes the registry entries to the default values:

• HKCU \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ HungAppTimeout = 5000
• HKCU \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ WaitToKillAppTimeout = 20000
• HKCU \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ AutoEndTasks = 0

NOTE: The computer must be restarted, for the changes to take effect.

This option enables you to email the AllSync Scheduler log.

Note: These email options are identical to the email settings in AllSync's Options.

Mail Server

An SMTP server address has to be entered in order for an email to be sent. Entering a POP3 server is not required unless the POP3 login option has been selected. Entering a user name and password is only necessary when using a POP3 login and SMTP login. The timeout setting enables you to specify the maximum amount of time to elapse until the mail server responds. Sending the email is aborted when this time period is exceeded. The mail server must support the official POP3 and SMTP protocols.

Email Account

Email:

The email address used to send the logs.

Name:

Name of sender, e.g. "AllSync Scheduler Info"

Subject:

Subject of the email. The following placeholders can be used:

• %1 for the task name
• %2 for the text "[ERROR]", shown in the subject only when an error has occurred. The text appears at the end of the subject when no placeholder is specified.
• %3 for the text "[OK]", shown in the subject only no error has occurred. The text doesn't appear at the subject when no placeholder is specified.

Send log of each task to the following email address(es)

This option causes the log to be automatically sent to the specified email address(es) after a task has completed.

Send bug report to the following email address(es)

Activating this option causes a bug report to be automatically sent to the address(es) entered.

Send an email to these addresses if a task couldn't be started:

This option causes a message to be sent to the specified email address(es) when a task couldn't be started at its specified start time and within the specified tolerance.

Info: If there is more than one address, they have to be separated by a comma.