Limagito File Mover Software Blog and Filemover News

13 Apr
Rule with fixed scheduled day don’t start
Rule with fixed scheduled day don’t start
Q: We have a problem con this Rule. 11 day of every month. Don’ t start. If I run it by hand it starts and move the files perfectly. What am I doing wrong?
A: Could you please check your file filter setup. If stabilize file option is enabled, please disable it. Feedback would be appreciated.
Our advice is not to use the ‘Stabilized File Check’ option with our ‘Windows as Source’ option. Instead use ‘Exclude Files in Use’.
Do not enable ‘Exclude Files locked By Other Moving Rules’ if you are not sure what this option does.
The ‘Stabilized File Check’ can be used with other Source options (like FTP, SFTP, ..). Remember that it needs at least two scans (triggers) to get a file moved/copied/deleted. The reason is that during the first scan, the system checks the file size and then at the next scan (second trigger), it compares the current file size with the previous measurement. If the sizes match, the file will be handled. If not, a third scan is needed, and so on.
Feedback customer:
Yes, with stabilize file disabled, now is working.
If you need any help with this option, please let us know.
Best Regards,
Limagito Team
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By Limagito-Team Q&A don't start, schedule
10 Apr
Having some CPU performance issues running the file mover service
Q: Im having some CPU performance issues running the file mover service on windows server 8cpu 32g ram in Azure. Would you be able to offer any advice on optimising the file mover rules? I tried the prefix filter as you told me and it definitely improved the speed that the rules execute but I found it still maxed out all CPUs while running (i also increased to 16cpu as a test), i tried with affinity set to allow only 3 CPU and timing is fine as well as not affecting the VM running. However that wont persist after reboot so i need to run a script or find some other solution have you come across this before? any way to set max cpu core in the application?
A: You don’t need paid support as long as you license is active. In version v2025.4.10.0 we added the following option: ‘Process Affinity’. This way you can limit the amount of cores our engine will use.
In the following example the system has 4 cores (0,1,2,3) and the engine is limited to use core 0 and 1 ( 0,1 )
If you need any help with this “CPU performance issues” option, please let us know.
Best Regards,
Limagito Team
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By Limagito-Team Q&A cpu, cpu performance, cpu usage
18 Mar
Strip date from filename filter and move files older than the x days
Strip date from filename filter and move files older than the x days
Q: I want to make a file filter-> regex filter able to move files older than the current date -n to another folder.
The files i question are named like this: hjernetrim-quiz-helside_2025-01-28.pdf (hjernetrim-quiz-helside_yyyy-mm-dd.pdf)
I can’t figure out how to use the regex Filter. I have no luck with this: hjernetrim-quiz-helside_TCD:[IncDay-5]yyyy-mm-dd:
Can you help me finding the correct filter syntax?
A: In this case we are going to strip the date part from the filename and convert it to a Date. Afterwards we’ll compare this with the current date and when older than 5 days we’ll allow the file to be moved. We are not going to use a file filter for this but instead use a little script.
First setup your Source, we used a Windows folder as Source:
Open our Pascal Script option:
Enable and add the following ‘On Destination’ script: link
You can adjust the ctOlderThanDays Const if needed. At the moment it is set to 5
As Destination we used a Windows Folder:
RunTime Log Result:
If you need any help with this “strip date from filename filter”, please let us know.
Best Regards,
Limagito Team
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By Limagito-Team Filters Pascal Script older than, strip date, stripped date