Part 3: Basic Configuration

General Preferences

Connect's general application behavior can be configured via the General option.

Under the General option, you can modify the following settings:

• Specify whether or not Connect should launch when the user logs into the system (via the checkbox).
• Specify how the Transfers window should behave when a transfer begins and completes (via the checkboxes).
• Specify how transfer list items should be removed from the Transfers window (via the drop-down list).
• Enable or disable transfer queuing via the checkbox (which allows a fixed number of concurrent transfers and places the rest in a queue) and identify the maximum number of concurrent transfers via the text box.

Transfer Preferences

Connect's transfer behavior can be configured under Preferences > Transfers.

By default, Connect downloads files to the current user's Downloads folder. To change this setting, adjust the following settings:

• Save downloaded files to: Specify the path to save the downloaded files.
• Always ask me where to save downloaded files: Opt to select an ad-hoc location for each download.

You can also set a retry rule if a transfer fails. Set the retry rule within the Retry section as follows:

• Automatically retry failed transfers: Enable or disable.
• Attempts: Specify how many times Connect should attempt to retry the transfer.
• Interval: Specify the amount of time that should elapse between each attempt (in seconds, minutes or hours).

Lastly, you may configure a logging level that can be used to control the logging output when troubleshooting a transfer issue.

Note that this feature is typically utilized only when contacting Aspera Support. Select from one of the following options:

• Info: Displays general messages about requests, ascp spawn options and transfer status changes. 
• Debug: Verbose (i.e., request validation and FASP management messages. -D will also be passed to ascp.
• Trace: Extra verbose. -DD will also be passed to ascp.