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This tutorial describes how to use DropIt to automatically scan defined folders at a time interval and process their content.
DropIt can be considered as a “Personal Assistant to automatically manage files” and the reason is the Folder Monitoring
feature, available from Options (Monitoring
tab).
To start to use this feature you only need to:
Your folders will be scanned every N seconds (with N the defined time interval) and only if bigger than the defined minimum size.
Now, to add your first monitored folder, you only need to double-click the table or click the Add
button. It will open the following window to define a new monitored folder:
This very simple window allows to select the desired folder and to associate a profile to it. In this way, when the monitored folder is automatically scanned, DropIt uses the associations of that profile to process included files and folders.
From Monitoring
tab, you can select a monitored folder and click “Edit” to modify it or “Remove” to delete it from the list. You can also check or uncheck folders to enable/disable them.
Ctrl
key while you are dropping some folders on DropIt floating icon to directly add them.Main
tab). Note that it works only if the file size changes during its process.Main
tab) and add the following association as the only one for folders: