Filee Files

What's Changed

New

• Failed files at a glance, and a retry. When files of a conversion fail, Recent conversions on the Home page lists them with the reason (click "2 failed" to open the list; names and reasons can be selected and copied). Retry converts the files that failed again with the same settings and save location, even after the preset was changed or deleted. Files that are no longer there are left out. The progress card that pops up after a conversion has the same Retry button. A retried file from a watch folder is handled like the folder handles its files: when the folder moves originals to "originals", the original moves once it converts.
• Watch folders: choose files and name them (Settings → Watch folders → More options, all optional; empty fields change nothing):
• Files to convert: patterns entered as tags. Typing heic adds *.heic, other text picks names that contain it, and * stands for any text, ? for one character. Extensions are suggested while typing, and the card says how many files in the folder match. Other files in the folder are left alone.
• Names of converted files: Edit name rules opens a window with the base name (typed, or built with buttons for the original name, date, time, number and preset name; empty keeps the preset's) and changes applied to it from top to bottom. Each change says what it does — replace text, remove text, add at the start or end, spaces to _, remove a copy number like "(2)", text in brackets, a leading number or symbols, all lowercase or uppercase — and asks only for the text it needs; a regular expression is there as the last, advanced kind. Common replacements on the left lists ready-made changes with an example of each; double-click one or press + to add it. The preview shows the name each file in the folder will get, and any name you type. Nothing changes until you save. The card shows the name in words ("[Original name]_scan") and the changes.
• A preview on every watch folder shows a converted file as it will be saved (IMG_0412.jpg → converted\Photo_0412.pdf, using a file already in the folder when there is one), what happens when the name is taken and what happens to the original.
• Recent results on every watch folder: how many files it converted and which failed, with the reason, and Retry right there. A file that converts on a retry or a later copy no longer counts as failed.

Documentation

• docs/ENGINES.md said Filee never uses engines installed on the computer. It does, as the last choice after a copy you picked and Filee's own: that is how FFmpeg and Ghostscript are found on macOS. The order is now described.

Pull requests

• 1.8.0: failed files and Retry, watch folder file patterns, name rules and recent results by @KnifeLemon in https://github.com/KnifeLemon/Filee/pull/46

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KnifeLemon/Filee/compare/v1.7.2...v1.8.0