Guide: How to Download and Organize Your Digital Photos with Fileaze?

 

 

Fileaze is a batch tool for recurrent file manipulation tasks. It allows you to execute sequences of operations on a collection of files gathered from folders, FTP servers, e-mail attachments and web pages. Fileaze can copy, move, rename, delete, change attributes and dates of these files. It supports text replacement, zip/unzip operations, encryption and decryption of collected files and it can also upload them to FTP servers or send them out as e-mail attachments. You can even invoke external commands or applications with your files passed along as parameters allowing you to have access to your favourite tools from within your jobs. Fileaze supports Regular Expressions in pattern matching to help you fine-tune your file selection. Fileaze lets you select files from multiple locations within a single job so you can easily automate complex and tedious manual tasks by turning them into smart jobs. Scheduled execution of batch jobs is also supported to make them run in the background at a fixed time, preset interval or upon occurrence of events. Fileaze supports parameterized execution through a set of more than 30 predefined constants that automatically evaluate at runtime. You can also define your own constants helping you to customize the job at execution time thus allowing you to reuse the same job in multiple scenarios. By combining all these features you can create batch jobs ranging from the simple to the most sophisticated. Fileaze can become a full or incremental backup tool relying on the archive state of files or a mirroring application that clones the filesystem on request or at a preset interval. You can turn it into an automatic digital photo downloader that creates date-based folders for smart photo organization. You can easily transform Fileaze to an upstreaming daemon that continuously monitors your local files and automatically publishes modifications on the Web via FTP upload: this way Fileaze can become an online collaboration tool or a Web renderer given that you make your files pass through a command line rendering script. You can periodically encrypt sensible files and upload them to a remote server as an emergency backup that becomes invaluable in case of theft or hard disk failure. You can also turn Fileaze into a time-based Web downloader that always enables you to have the latest version of a Web page or image on your hard disk. Fileaze helps you get things done by saving you time and eliminating inevitable mistakes in tedious manual tasks.

 

 

Fileaze-Step1: Let's create a job in Fileaze to automate our photo download task. Click the "New" button in the toolbar and enter a name for your new job (and an optional description if you wish):

 

 

 

 

Fileaze-Step2: Let's move to the Sources tab and add a Folder source:

 

 

 

 

Fileaze-Step3: This opens the Folder Source selection dialog:

 

 

 

 

Fileaze-Step4: Finally let's filter out only the files we need. Digital cameras often create support files needed by proprietary applications. Since we don't want them but only our JPEG photos, let's click the dotted button in the Folder and file filter pane. This opens the filter window:

 

 

 

 

Fileaze-Step5: The Folder and filename pane will look like this:

 

 

 

 

 

Fileaze-Step6: Press save to get back to the job editor:

 

 

 

 

Fileaze-Step7: Now let's click on the Actions tab and add a new Copy action:

 

 

 

 

 

Fileaze-Step8: The New copy action window opens. In the Destination folder and filename pane just input the path or click the dotted button to browse to the destination folder where you want all your photos to be copied to, in our case C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\11 :

 

 

 

 

 

Fileaze-Step9: We don't need to specify a filter here since we already filtered our sources to match JPEG files only. Click Save to close this window and return to the job editor. Here click Save again to close the editor. Now our job is created and appears in the main window's job list:

 

 

 

 

 

Fileaze-Step10: Select the job by clicking it in the list and click Run to execute the job. If the job was created with the correct parameters what you'll see is a window similar to this:

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