FileSieve uses a few terms to describe certain features, which are detailed below.
- Profile
- Source Items, Items, Item, Files, File
- Method
- Modifier
- Trigger
- Regular Expression(s)
Each Profile is unique, and contain their own set of Source Items, active Method and Modifiers, and various other settings. This allows you to create sets of self-contained settings that do not interfere with each other.
A Source Item is either a directory or a file that resides within the source directories (in Step 1 of the application's main window), depending on the context the term is being used in. A Source Item is sometimes referred to as simply an Item.
A method of sorting files.
In FileSieve, Methods are the primarily way in which files and directories are processed. Selecting a Method will cause FileSieve to process any items in the specified source directories in a particular way; to see how each method affects files and directories, select any method to view its intended purpose.
A modifier is an action that modifies a part (or entirely as a whole) of a file's path, filename, and/or extension.
For example, enabling the Casing modifier and setting the Filename Casing to Word Capitalisation will cause FileSieve to capitalise the start of each word in a filename, while leaving the path and file's extension unchanged.
Modifiers are applied after an item (file) has been processed, so modifiers are not affected by the currently active Method.
A Trigger - or specifically, a Profile Trigger - waits for a certain action on the computer to occur and then automatically starts processing a Profile. This is a way to perform automatic profile processing.
A regular expression is... something wonderful. Sorry; this isn't very easy to explain.
A Regular Expression (regex) allows the searching and matching of text using various rules - all within a single text string. FileSieve supports regex in various places to provide flexibilty. You can read more about Regular Expressions here.