# Script Upon Complete Transfer
**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/script-upon-complete-transfer/5667
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [September 14, 2015, 1:03pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/script-upon-complete-transfer/5667 "2015-09-14T13:03:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@sea3pea0](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/sea3pea0)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 1:03pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/script-upon-complete-transfer/5667/1 "2015-09-14T13:03:02Z")
It would be great if Synthing had an option to run a script each time a folder finishes transfer. It be would nice to avoid having to run a service to poll syncthing.
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### Author:  [@wweich](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/wweich)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 1:09pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/script-upon-complete-transfer/5667/2 "2015-09-14T13:09:46Z")
Something like that is already in discussion:
> [@Pre and Post process scripting?](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/pre-and-post-process-scripting/847):
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> Hi Not sure if it is possible but I am wondering if we could have pre and post process system scripting (via bash, or whatever the system offers) for things like compression, encryption etc. I realize that complicates how ST needs to check files but it might be a nice feature to have.
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/script-upon-complete-transfer/5667/3 "2015-09-14T13:31:18Z")