transerOptions.FileMask does not work

Hello,

I'm trying to sync my windows phone FTP server to localdisk.
I'm using PowerShell (windows 10)
and WinSCP-5.9.1-Automation

The main part of my script:

$session.add_FileTransferred( { FileTransferred($_) } )

# Connect
$session.Open($sessionOptions)

$transferoptions = New-Object WinSCP.TransferOptions
# $transferOptions.FileMask = "*>2016-O8-01"
$transferoptions.FileMask = ".txt"


# Synchronize files
$synchronizationResult = $session.SynchronizeDirectories([WinSCP.SynchronizationMode]::Local, $FTPLocalFolder, $FTPRemoteFolder, $false, $transferoptions)

# Throw on any error
$synchronizationResult.Check()


At the end, I only want to sync files where dateModified > 2016-08-01. This filemask didn't work, so I tried with FileMask = ".txt", but this didn't work either: all files are synchronized, no matter what the extension is.

What do I wrong?

Kind regards,
Bart

The TransferOptions is the 7th, not the 5th argument of the Session.SynchronizeDirectories:
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/library_session_synchronizedirectories and
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/faq_library_parameters

Also, in the 2016-O8-01, you have a letter, not a digit.

I'm sure I'm missing something here, but how are arguments for TransferOptions actually handled? I've been through the documentation and just can't figure it out in my script - if I include any more than five arguments when using SynchronizeDirectories in a powershell script, I get an error stating 'Error: Cannot find an overload for "SynchronizeDirectories" and the argument count: "6".'.

I'm trying to exclude certain file types (executables) from download via SFTP and also set it to auto resume. The section of the script in question is;

try
{
# Will continuously report progress of synchronization
$session.add_FileTransferred( { FileTransferred($_) } )

# Connect
$session.Open($sessionOptions)

#Transfer options
$transferOptions = New-Object WinSCP.TransferOptions
$transferOptions.ResumeSupport.State = [WinSCP.TransferResumeSupportState]::On
$file_mask = "*.* | .exe"
$transferOptions.FileMask = $file_mask

# Synchronize files
$synchronizationResult = $session.SynchronizeDirectories(
[WinSCP.SynchronizationMode]::Local, "c:\test", "/test/", $False, $SynchronizationCriteria.Size, $transferOptions)

#Compare files based on file size
#$SynchronizationCriteria.Size

# Throw on any error
$synchronizationResult.Check()
}


Any pointers would be very much appreciated.

Worked it out just after posting;

# Connect
$session.Open($sessionOptions)

#Transfer options
$transferOptions = New-Object WinSCP.TransferOptions
$transferOptions.ResumeSupport.State = [WinSCP.TransferResumeSupportState]::On
$file_mask = "| *.exe;*.bat;*."
$transferOptions.FileMask = $file_mask

# Synchronize files
$synchronizationResult = $session.SynchronizeDirectories(
[WinSCP.SynchronizationMode]::Local, "c:\test", "/test/", $False, $False, [WinSCP.SynchronizationCriteria]::Size, $transferOptions)

# Throw on any error
$synchronizationResult.Check()

I didn't realise that my synchronisation criteria syntax was wrong and this seemed to be interfering with the rest of it.

Still can't get logging working though - using this entry;

$session = New-Object WinSCP.Session
$session.SessionLogPath = "C:\scripts\logs\script.xml"
$session.Open($sessionOptions)

...but not sure where to put it in the script. Have tried several options but, although it doesn't throw an error, it also doesn't create a log file.

elmariachi wrote:

Still can't get logging working though - using this entry;

$session = New-Object WinSCP.Session
$session.SessionLogPath = "C:\scripts\logs\script.xml"
$session.Open($sessionOptions)

...but not sure where to put it in the script. Have tried several options but, although it doesn't throw an error, it also doesn't create a log file.

You cannot use .xml for a session log file. Use for example .log.

Thanks Martin, that works.. :)