Sort files

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J.A.L.T. 2.0 is very powerful in its's extensive and comfortable capability to sort files.
Sorting a mass of files is a child's play as you can applicate always reusable templates that can be configured as desired, supported by temporarily definable quick select buttons.
With just one (!) click you can unpack files immediately from a zip-file and copy them in a predefined folder via the sort template. Together with the zip-viewer this offers you a phantastic possibility to browse through zip-files and extract interesting files for each purpose at lowest expenditure.
You can sort all files with the pre-defined extensions as well as the user defined ones that can be found in the 'mask +' toolbar, files from a catalog and all files being packed in a zip-file. That means: no boundaries.
Below you find a detailed description of the functions:




- The sort function's menue - the toolbar 'sort'

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Open or close the sort function's menue by clicking on the 'grip' of the toolbar.
The menue is used to show the sort templates and the quick select buttons and for all sort functions. If desired the sort templates can be added to each viewer.

The menue has its own status line with the informations listed below:


buttons:
sort mode: copy files
sort mode: move files
Thus you determine the operations that shall be executed with selected files via the sort template. You can press only a single button. Pre-setting is 'copy files'.
quick select buttons see sort with quick select buttons
load sort template Clicking on this button opens the dialogue 'load sort template'. There you can select a template already created.
configure sort template on / off Clicking on this button opens the menue ' configure sort template '.
A next click closes the menue
other buttons see configure sort template




- The sort template -

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A sort template is open to each configuration and can have up to 200 buttons.  Each button corresponds to a target folder. From the configuration menue ( configure sort template )  you create the nessecary buttons and link them to a descriptive title and a target folder. Then you can save the template and load it again any time you want. 
So, if you sort one ore more selected files by clicking on a sort button, you copy or move them to a folder linked with the sort button. It depends on the status of the buttons 
sort mode: copy files ' or ' sort mode: move files ' ( the sort menue - the toolbar 'sort' ) whether you copy or move files..

You can work very efficiently with the sort template !

As the mark beam of the indexes 'folder' and ' searchlist' of the list view moves automatically to the next listing after each copy or move operation, you can sort a complete folder without moving your mouse off  the sort template.
This allows you to sort several hundred files in a few minutes !!!




- Configure the sort template -

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Click the button ' configure sort template on / off ' to open or close the configuration menue.

When the menue is opened you can see several more buttons that are explained in the following.

The menue contains a list with two rows. Each entry of the list corresponds to a sort template.
Enter the caption of the button in the first row and the path to the target folder in the second row.
To add a sort button to the template click on 'create new sort button' and the list is ready to be edited.

While the caption is inserted manually, the corresponding path can be taken from the right side directory by double click. It then will automatically appear in the actual cell of the row 'folder' which is better than a manual entry as it is faster without danger of typing errors.
Create each button as described above and end your job by saving the template. At any time the template now can be loaded, edited ( add, delete ) and saved again.

Of course you can create new folders without leaving the menue.
Simply mark in the directory where the new folder shall be created.
Clicking the button  
' create folder ' opens a dialogue 'create new directory' where you can insert a valid folder name and click 'ok'.

buttons:
create new sort buttonClicking this button creates a new sort button. You also can add new sort buttons to a saved and reopened template. Don't forget to save a changed template ! 
delete sort buttonThe selected buttons of the list are being removed from the template.
clear sort panelThe complete template will be emptied. Don't forget to eventually save the template before clearing it.
save sort templateSaves the present template.
create new folderEnables you to create a new folder




- Sort from the file list -

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If not yet done, open the sort menue and select the desired sort mode.

Select from file list or search list the files to be sorted. Use the ctrl- or shiftkey in connection with your mouse to select several files or files in a row. Use alt-a to select all files of the list.
In the status line of the sort menue there must be shown 'file list' as source.
Click the desired sort button of the sort template or a quick select button .

The sort operation encloses all selected files and so does the delete operation.




- Sort from a zip-file -

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If not yet done, open the sort menue and select the desired sort mode.

From the toolbar 'mask' select the extension zip and open a zip-file shown in the file view. You'll see a table with the contents of the zip-file.

Select from this grid the files to be sorted. Use the shift key in connection with the mouse to select several files in a row.

In the status line of the sort menue there must be shown ' zip file' as source.

Click on the desired sort button of the sort template or a quick select button .

The selected files are automatically unzipped and sorted.
When sorting out of a zip file always a copy operation will be executed no matter what sort mode is selected.




- Sort from a catalog -

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If not yet done, open a sort template and select the desired sort mode.
Select the register page 'catalog' and open the desired catalog.
Clicking on a picture leads you to the single picture mode (only jpg, jpeg, jpe, bmp, gif).

In the status line of the sort window there must be shown 'catalog' as source.

Click the desired sort button of the sort template or a quick select button .

The selected file will be sorted.
When sorting out of a catalog always a copy operation will be made no matter what sort mode is selected.



- Sort into the sort template -

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see ' sort from the file list, sort from a catalog ' and ' sort from a zip-file '.



-Use of the quick select buttons for sorting -

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The quick select buttons offer you the possibility to define temporarily and very fast up to three sort buttons. 
Click on the '
quick select button ' opens a menue with a directory, three radiobuttons and three sort buttons.When opening this menue first after starting the program the buttons don't have a caption. 
Now click the radiobutton left from the sort button which you want to link with a target folder.
Then select the desired folder of the directory and watch how the caption of the selected sort button changes. Now this button and it's corresponding path enables the sorting operation. You always can link it with another target.

When closing the application the settings are being deleted.



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