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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Cloudflare protection?

« on: October 27, 2025, 06:26 AM »

any update on this? Chocolatey are bugging me about the software failing their automating testing routines as it can't be downloaded.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Cloudflare protection?

« on: September 29, 2025, 05:57 AM »

I get your point, but if you cache the content on Cloudflare that is already protecting the site, then the downloads are not going to be hitting the main site in the first place which is like putting a gate at the front of the driveway with a lockbox for Amazon to leave their deliveries :-)
Something like a cache rule like
http.request.uri.path matches regex "^/Software/.+/downloads/.+"
I think that would work for Mousers software at least.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Cloudflare protection?

« on: September 27, 2025, 07:12 AM »

Hi mouser - any update on this?  I got a follow up email from Chocolatey that they are unable to download and install. I see it is still failing, presumably from the protection.
The full install log from their end is in their gist at https://gist.github....2520315a2ffb6a74506e
In their particular testing case, they have a standard user agent so you should be able to exclude chocolatey command line (see  line 466 , 'chocolatey command line')  which would allow them to download and test the install process however that would not help with downloading with chocolatey itself which uses PowerShell as the user agent.
Please let me know if you need any more assistance on this one - happy to help.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Cloudflare protection?

« on: March 22, 2025, 08:12 AM »

Has cloudflare protection been recently enabled for the donation coder site and any chance that file downloads could be excluded from the protection (although I get that might be an unwanted feature as file downloads are probably the biggest bandwidth usage.)
I look after the screenshotcaptor chocolatey package and it is now failing as the human/bot checking fails when downloading the installer with PowerShell and so the install package is broken.
Wondering whether cloudflare caching could be enabled instead which would cache the content on their servers which means you wouldn't be hosting much of the downloads and would have the advantage of localised downloads from cloudflare's cdn instead?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Any idea why capturing triggers a bluetooth notification with "YourPhone"

« on: July 01, 2020, 05:35 AM »

I just tried reproducing this on my personal laptop and I don't get the same issue - so unfortunately it has something to do with my work laptop. As far as I can tell there are no shortcuts for the Your Phone app.
It's very strange.
I'll update this thread when I track down what it is.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Any idea why capturing triggers a bluetooth notification with "YourPhone"

« on: June 30, 2020, 02:30 PM »

Ran some tests - This behaviour happens whether I copy the bitmap image to the clipboard or not.
However it does not happen if I use the menu to capture the screenshot but only when my hotkey of Ctrl-Shift 2 or the default shift-printscreen to capture a specific region triggers the notification.
The shortcuts for printscreen for current monitor,  ctrl-prtscreen for everything, Alt-printscreen for window do not trigger it the notification popup.

Notifications on my phone already show up on the computer but for whatever reason this selected region (which i use ALL the time) triggers this notification.

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Screenshot Captor / Any idea why capturing triggers a bluetooth notification with "YourPhone"

« on: June 29, 2020, 09:07 AM »

I have the microsoft app YourPhone installed on my machine and everytime I do a grab selection with ScreenShotCaptor (4.36.1) v, I get a popup "Add a device, Tap to setup your S9" and my phone beeps to confirm the bluetooth connection.
It's very bizarre behaviour. I'm assuming it's because I've just pasted something into the clipboard which could then be used to send to my phone, but it doesn't happen if I just copy some text from Word (as an example)

Any ideas why this would happen?

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« on: March 28, 2020, 08:32 AM »

The Flow software is an awesome experience, allowing you to use the same mouse, seamlessly between multiple computers (up to 3) and can copy & paste text, images, and files between them, providing they are all on the same network. It also can copy & paste between a Windows PC and a Mac. That one feature, alone, makes this mouse worth it.

-app103 (February 10, 2019, 05:53 AM)

Microsoft have 'mouse without borders' which does the same thing. It's a more user friendly version of synergy.
One thing to be aware of, if you are actually connected to the computer that is at the other end of the house and then you have moved control to the computer you are actually sitting at, the mouse is very very very sluggish. It took me a whole day to work that one out once!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Error when capturing screenshot

« on: February 17, 2020, 07:36 AM »

Tried editing this on Friday and it seemed to work.
This morning I rebooted and it seems to have reverted back.
However the configdir.ini still points to my local onedrive location, yet the settings still show as my redirected folder location (see screenshot)
I did try moving the ini file to DonationCoder\ScreenshotCaptor directory but this didn't make any difference either.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Error when capturing screenshot

« on: February 14, 2020, 10:47 AM »

Hi Chris, welcome to the site.

You've got it trying to save the screenshots in a place where it doesn't have permission to do so.  Just change the screenshot folder to a directory where you are allowed to save files.  The default would normally be something like your Documents\DonationCoder\ScreenshotCaptor\Screenshots folder..

-mouser (January 30, 2020, 12:04 PM)

So oddly enough I just got this on my computer this morning too.
When I launched the app (which for some reason didn't launch on startup as configured) the app seemed to hang for quite some time (20-30 seconds) and then I was able to take a screenshot.
I'm currently running a slightly older version (4.31.2)  (as i'm waiting for chocolatey to approve the install which is a whole other story!) and this is the first time I've seen this error message.
When I launched SC this morning all of my normal thumbnails are not showing up and the left screen is completely empty. When I went to File/Saving and loading, my screenshot folder is set to c:\andy\screenshots and not the location referenced in the error message (c:\program files(x86)\ScreenshotCaptor\screenshot - 20200214-113625.png)

If it makes any difference, my settings are stored in a redirected folder at \\servername\user$\myusername\My Documents\DonationCoder\ScreenshotCaptor\

I've had the funky empty screen folder show up occasionally and a restart fixes it (and did in this issue). I was also then able to take a screenshot and carry on as normal without the original error message posted above.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Is there any plan to update to ScreenShot Captor ?

« on: January 31, 2020, 06:05 AM »

Just got notification from chocolatey last night that the new version failed checks (because the checksum changed). Updated chocolatey script this morning following my notes from 2 years ago and was very pleased that I could still make sense of them. New version has been submitted to chocolatey to get pushed out today hopefully.

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Living Room / Re: TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free

« on: January 18, 2020, 06:37 AM »

In case anyone is interested and is doing their taxes looking for an alternative, taxact was a lot cheaper than the big two when I was doing mine. I now give mine to a local cpa who does it for less than it would cost me to file myself and includes the filing costs!

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Living Room / Re: I'm getting married, wish me luck!

« on: January 02, 2020, 04:47 AM »

I can't believe I never saw this until now - Congratulations on your wedding, anniversary and 2nd New year as a married couple!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Change request - Captor File Naming

« on: December 30, 2019, 03:44 PM »

If you put the date and time together then you'd an auto incrementing filename with the added bonus of knowing when the file was taken.
My Filenmae is
      Screenshot - %customdate%
And the Custom Date Format is
    %Y%m%d-%H%M%S

This gives me a file named "Screenshot - 20191230-164310.png" - This also avoids comma's in file names that some web pages do not like when attempting to upload a screenshot too.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Is there any plan to update to ScreenShot Captor ?

« on: December 30, 2019, 03:35 PM »

I use the splice all the time when taking screenshots of my browser and hiding the bookmarks  toolbar from the screenshot. No-one needs to know my shortcuts ;-) 
Now if could auto detect a web page screenshot and auto remove the bookmars bar that would be pretty cool (but i'm not expecting that)
The scrolling capture seems iffy to me - a colleague of mine was just trying to get that to work and his browser would scroll but he couldn't get the page to line up - I couldn't even get my browser (chrome) to scroll!

I'd love, love, love  the feature request at https://www.donation....msg417352#msg417352 to give the auto numbering stamps

When you are done I'll have to dust off my chocolately script to update the new version - it's been a while since I updated the chocolatey package.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Images pasted into onenote are half size

« on: July 23, 2018, 08:37 AM »

So this is now working this week oddly enough. The only thing that has changed is a possible office365 update (Now running Version 1803 build 9126.2259 CTR) and I also uninstalled Snagit.  I'm really hoping it was the office update and they don't break it in another update.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Images pasted into onenote are half size

« on: June 21, 2018, 07:32 PM »

Yep. @mouser, do you have any ideas why screenshotccaptor is appearing as a different format on the clipboard to snsgit?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Images pasted into onenote are half size

« on: June 21, 2018, 02:43 PM »

I checked on Monday - yes the onenote is 2010-2016 version and it's the same notebook that I was using where it worked for a week or so. I generate weekly reports for a status meeting and copy/paste web pages into the notebook so we have a historical record of stats for each week. So it's the same procedure every week.
I checked on a brand new notebook stored locally and a variety of other onenotes, most of which are on Onedrive and all generate the same symptoms.
It's weird that Snagit works correctly but ScreenshotCaptor doesn't with the same capturing of the region.
As it's the office365 version of Office, the client might have upgraded to a different build. I just ran an update to get the latest version and we're now running at version 1708 Build 8431.2270 Click-to-Run.

In case it matters after post capture I have play capture sound, auto select active window, but not if full width/height, Filename Balloon tip, add border and add Drop shadow to image.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Images pasted into onenote are half size

« on: June 15, 2018, 05:03 AM »

Thanks for the continuing work on this Ian. I can't get the original fix to work on most/any of the notebooks now - I'll have to try it on the original notebook on Monday when I'm back at work.  I have tons of Onenote notebooks that I use - most of them are (and have been for almost a year) on Sharepoint. They are 2016 versions - I'll run some checks on a variety of notebooks next week and report back.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Images pasted into onenote are half size

« on: June 13, 2018, 12:35 PM »

Clipboardic shows the following - the first entry is Screenshotcaptor automatically copying the image to the clipboard -
The 2-5 entries are Snagit pasting entries.
Not sure why Snagit copies 3 times but the type of media looks to be the same

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Images pasted into onenote are half size

« on: June 13, 2018, 07:20 AM »

Hi Ian - I missed the addin suggestion. Installed it just now and unfortunately nothing happens when I hit the paste button.
The option to always paste with formatting is not actually there.

Today I checked a paste from Screenshotcaptor and when I right click and choose paste, I only have paste as picture.
When I paste from Snagit I get the option to keep formatting, merge formatting or paste picture - the default to keep source formatting pastes in the normal image.

Is it the way the image is being copied into the clipboard?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Images pasted into onenote are half size

« on: June 11, 2018, 09:19 AM »

Bumping this thread with more info. I have snaggit installed on my machine too as it allows me to autonumber my bullet points as I click which Screenshot doesn't.
Interestingly I can screen clip the same screen to Snaggit and then paste into Onenote with no problems.
Windows Snipping tool has the same issue interestingly enough.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: File naming template

« on: May 22, 2018, 03:36 PM »

Thanks cranioscopical - that worked for me.
Wondering what the $dt:%DATEFIELD$ is used for then.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: File naming template

« on: May 22, 2018, 11:31 AM »

Sorry to bump such an old topic, but I've run into this and am struggling to get this to work correctly.
I've started to come across several websites that don't like the comma in the filename that the normal datetime file generates so I want to change the name.
To me the instructions imply that if I put $dt:%DATEFIELD$ in the default filename tab, it will be replaced by the shortcodes defined under Custom Date Format.

However when I run this on my files I get MM_DD_YYATEFIELD as my custom text which is nowhere near what I had defined.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Images pasted into onenote are half size

« on: April 03, 2018, 05:01 PM »

Thanks Ian - I'm running 1708 build 8431.2236 Click to Run which unfortunately is the Semi Annual channel.
Office updates states this is the latest version which I know is not right based on my experience and your post above ;-)

Setting to plain text and then RTF doesn't save the settings either. Frustrating when it worked for a couple of days and no longer working. I'll check on a couple of other machines in the office to see if they have the same problem.