5: To add a creator code to your stored favorites list
6: To add a file type to your stored favorites list
7: Setting your preferences
8: Using Typer™ to batch process files
••• To create a new conversion criteria:
When creating criteria, you can match one, two, or all three of the available parameters for file matching when identifying files that meet the criteria to change; and you can change one, two, or all three of the possible parameters when a file to change is identified.
For example, you could change all files of type 'TEXT' to the creator type 'R*ch' and make them belong to BBEdit, and as another example you could change all files with the extension '.html' to type 'TEXT' and creator 'MOSS'.
You do not have to use all parameters in the Change From and Change To controls when creating criteria. Any unneeded parameters should be left unchecked.
1: Select Conversion Criteria from the Edit menu.
2: Click the Add button below the criteria list in the Automatic Conversion dialog. This will create a new, empty criteria on the end of the list.
3: Check Creator In the Change From control group and the corresponding text box will activate.
4: Enter the 4 byte creator code if known.
5: If you do not know the creator code, select the pup-up menu to the right of the text box and choose a stored creator code from the favorites list or select Browse, which will allow you to select an application to extract its creator code.
6: Check Type in the Change From control group and the corresponding text box will activate.
7: Enter the four byte type code if known.
8: If you do not know the type code, select the pop-up menu to the right of the text box and choose a stored type code from the favorites list or select Browse, which will allow you to select a file to extract its type code.
9: Check Extension in the Change From control group, and the corresponding text box will activate.
10: Enter the file name extension. File name extensions are not case sensitive for matching. '.gif' and '.GIF' would be equivalent for the Change From file extension.
11: Check Creator in the Change To control group, and the corresponding text box will activate.
12: Enter the 4 byte creator code if known.
13: If you do not know the creator code, select the pop-up menu to the right of the text box and choose a stored creator code from the favorites list or select Browse, which will allow you to select an application to extract its creator code.
14: Check Type in the Change To control group, and the corresponding text box will activate.
15: Enter the four byte type code if known.
16: If you do not know the type code, select the pop-up menu to the right of the text box and choose a stored type code from the favorites list or select Browse, which will allow you to select an file to extract its type code.
17: Check Extension in the Change From control group and the corresponding text box will activate.
18: Enter the file name extension. File name extensions are case-sensitive for changing.
19: Click OK to save changes.
••• To remove an existing conversion criteria:
1: Select Conversion Criteria from the Edit menu.
2: Using your mouse, select the item in the criteria list you wish to remove.
3: Click the remove button below the criteria list in the Automatic Conversion dialog.
4: Click OK to save changes.
••• To change an existing conversion criteria:
1: Select Conversion Criteria from the Edit menu.
2: Using your mouse, select the item in the criteria list you wish to modify.
3: Modify parameters in the Change From and Change To controls as needed.
4: Click OK to save changes.
••• To change the order of conversion criteria:
1: Select Conversion Criteria from the Edit menu.
2: Using your mouse, click and drag items in the criteria list to change the order of execution.
3: Click OK to save changes.
••• To add a creator code to your stored favorites list:
1: Select Favorite Creators/Types from the Edit menu.
2: Click the Add button beneath the Creators list on the left side of the Favorite Types/Creators dialog.
3: A navigation services dialog will appear and allow you to select an application from which to extract the creator code.
4: Select an application by double clicking on it in the navigation list, or clicking OK in the navigation dialog while the application is highlighted.
5: A new creator code will be added to the list and named as the application name. You can change the name as it will appear in the type/creator menus by editing the name in the text box below the creators list.
6: Click OK to save changes.
••• To add a file type to your stored favorites list:
1: Select Favorite Creators/Types from the Edit menu.
2: Click the Add button beneath the Types list on the right side of the Favorite Types/Creators dialog.
3: A navigation services dialog will appear and allow you to select a file from which to extract the type code.
4: Select a file by double clicking on it in the navigation list, or clicking OK in the navigation dialog while the file is highlighted.
5: A new type code will be added to the list and named as indicated by the owning application's 'open' resource. You can change the name as it will appear in the type/creator menus by editing the name in the text box below the text list.
6: Click OK to save changes.
••• Setting your preferences:
1: Select Preferences from the Edit menu.
2: If you want Typer™ to recursively process all items contained within subfolders when you drop folders onto it, check Convert All Contents. If you only want Typer™ to change top level items in folders, check Convert Immediate Contents.
3: If you want to be prompted by Typer™ should it encounter a file that does not match any criteria, so you can manually change the file if needed, check Prompt if file doesn't match any criteria.
4: If you want to be warned that you're about to do something you probably don't want to do, check Warn about common mistakes.
••• Using Typer™ to batch process files:
You can drag folders and multiple items onto Typer™ to batch process them, or select a folder to process using Convert from the File menu.
Processing is automatic when files matching criteria are found. However, when files are found that do not match any criteria for automatic conversion, action is required unless you have set your preferences not to be prompted.
In this case, the Change File Creator/Type dialog will be shown, allowing you to decide how to handle files that don't fit any criteria for automatic conversion.
This dialog shows the location of the file, its creator and type, and has Change To controls for creator and type similar to those in the Automatic Conversion dialog. There is also a Further Actions pop-up menu that allows you to control how Typer™ will handle items encountered later in the batch being processed.
1: To change the creator or type, set the creator and/or type in the Change To controls in the Change File Creator/Type dialog, you can type in the codes if known, or use the pop-up menus to select creators and types from the favorites list, or extract creator/type information from files or applications.
2: To add an automatic conversion criteria to handle the change you just manually made, select Save as Criteria in the Further Actions pop-up menu.
3: To ignore further instances of files that don't match any automatic conversion criteria, so processing will continue unsupervised and the Change File Creator/Type dialog will not be shown again, select Ignore further instances in the Further Actions pop-up menu.
4: To be prompted again the next time a file is encountered in the batch being processed that does not match any automatic conversion criteria, select Do nothing further from in the Further Actions pop-up menu.
5: To change the file's creator and type as indicated, click the Change button.
6: To ignore the file without changing it and continue processing files in the batch, click the Don't Change button.
7: To canel processing of the batch, without changing any further files, click the Cancel button.
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