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narayan

Senior Member

Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 470

Auto-preview when new files are added to the "Files" pane

I have set the auto-preview mode "ON" (default setting).

I had a huge number of downloaded files, which I had to sort into different folders after renaming.

The "renaming"was essentially cleaning up the names (remove some characters and then change case to "first letter capitalized".)

So I selected a batch, rename and then moved it to the destination folder.
I repeated this for other batches meant for different destination folders.

Since the rules were the same, each time I only cleared off the old batch of files (already renamed files) and added the new batch.

The preview did not automatically work when the new batch was added.
I had to click the preview button each time.

I suggest that each time new files are added, the auto-preview should work (if active).

Last edited by narayan (2009-02-11 16:27)

Andrew

Senior Member

Registered: 2008-05-22

Posts: 542

Re: Auto-preview when new files are added to the "Files" pane

I guess you don't know that in case of PascalScript, Preview actually runs the script and can cause changes to the files! For example, try adding this simple script and pressing Preview:

begin
  SetFileTimeModified(Filepath, Now);
end.

Each time Preview is pressed, the file modification timestamp will be changed to the current time. This is a harmless and simple script. But auto-preview every time new files are added would be potentially dangerous IMO if some badly written PascalScript rule is in use.

den4b

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From: den4b.com

Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 3,375

Re: Auto-preview when new files are added to the "Files" pane

narayan, yet again, you don't do your own research before asking the question.

You can find in settings an option "Auto preview when new files are added" - it is NOT turned on by default.

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narayan

Senior Member

Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 470

Re: Auto-preview when new files are added to the "Files" pane

Oops! Missed that!