Cleaners and Options

File renaming and retyping operations are performed by several ‘cleaners’ built into NameCleaner. Each of these performs a specific set of tasks such as find and replace, capitalization, or cross-platform mapping. Choose Options… from the File menu, and use the Cleaner menu to edit the settings for each cleaner. A cleaner will only be activated if the Use Cleaner checkbox is on when that cleaner's panel is selected; this is also indicated by a diamond next to the cleaner's name in the menu. The activated cleaners are executed on each file in the order shown in the menu.

A brief description of each cleaner follows :

• PC to Mac File Types maps non-Mac extensions such as .html to Mac file type codes.
• PC to Mac Suffixes converts these extensions into descriptive file name suffixes.
• Organise Punctuations performs tasks such as quote smartening and punctuation padding.
• Automatic Capitalization capitalizes words in a file name based on their length and content.
• Capitalization Dictionary looks for specific words, and capitalizes them as required.
• Find and Replace Phrases replaces specific series of characters by others.
• Add File Information adds file information before or after the name.
• Mac to PC File Names ensures Mac file names can be used on non-Mac systems.
• Mac to PC File Types maps Mac file types to non-Mac extensions such as .XLS.
• Rename Failure Handling ensures that file renaming succeeds in all circumstances.

For more information, see help topics for each individual cleaner.

Type a file name in the Input Name field to view how it will be renamed in the Clean Name field. Cleaners that depend on an file's Mac type codes will have no effect on the Input Name.

Option Sets

An Option Set is an overall configuration of all NameCleaner's cleaners. These may be selected from the Option Set menu in the Console. Choose New Set… to create a new Option Set and Clone Set… to produce a copy of the currently selected set for user editing. Choose Remove Set… to remove the currently selected option set, and Rename Set… to change the set's name. Choose Update Sets… to add all the mappings between PC extensions and Macintosh file types included in this version of NameCleaner. If you do this, none of your own settings will be overridden.

NameCleaner comes will several pre-configured option sets :

• Remove ‘ alias’ removes the alias that the Finder puts on alias files.
• Prefix Numbering adds a three-digit incrementing sequence number before all file names.
• PC to Macintosh maps common extensions to Mac type codes and appends a descriptive suffix.
• Macintosh to DOS/Win 3 maps common Mac type codes to extensions, and filters names for DOS/Windows 3.x.
• Macintosh to Win 95/98 maps common Mac type codes to extensions, and filters names for Windows 95.
• Macintosh to Win NT maps common Mac type codes to extensions, and filters names for Windows NT.

It is worth looking at the options for these sets to gain an idea of how the cleaners in NameCleaner work.

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