File Property Edit - Online Help

Introduction

Use File Property Edit, with just several clicks, you can easily change the files' attributes, including "create time", "modify time", "last access time", "Realonly", "Hidden", "System"... and modify their diversify properties, like document summary properties, and photo's EXIF properties. With the powerful file and folder browse feature and the drag and drop support, you can easily add a group of files and/or directories. The 1-click Undo feature allows you to rollback all the changes you just made. It also supports quick preview feature, which allows you to see the picture's thumbnail when you edit it.

Main features

Modify all types of photo's properties including EXIF.
QuickView feature - Support thumbnail preview of photo.
Modify file and folder's "created date time", "modified date time", and "Last access date time".
Modify file and folder's attributes including "Archive", "Read Only", "Hidden", "System", "Temporary", "Offline", "Content index", or "Normal".
Edit the file's document summary properties including: "Title", "Subject", "Author", "Keywords", "Comments", "Template", "Last Author", "Revision Number", and "App Name".
Drag and Drop: It's easy to add files to the list, just drag files from anywhere and drop them to File Property Edit's list.
Undo changes: After you change the properties of files and folders, you can use this to cancel the changes, and rollback the old property values.
Files filter support case sensitive and exclusive filtering - you can easily filter in or out the files you want from the file list.

How to add files or folders to the list

Using the "Add Files" or "Add Folder" button, you can add files and folders to the list. Also, you can drag and drop to add files to the list from anywhere on your computer.

To open the Open File dialog, in which you can select file(s) and add them to the file list.

To open the Browse dialog, in which you can select a folder to add all files in that folder to the file list.
If "Sub dir" checkbox is checked, all the files in the sub directories will also be added to the list.
If "Include path" checkbox is checked, the folder will also be added to the list.
If "Path only" checkbox is checked, only the folders not the files in it will be added to the list.

Select all the files and folders in the list.

Invert the selection in the file list.

Remove the currently selected file from the file list.

Remove all the files from the file list.

Use files filter

Typing the keyword in this edit box, the files that do not match this filter will be filtered out. For example: if you type "net", the files which name do not include "net" will be filtered out from the file list. You may use asterisk in the filter like "*.bmp", that means list files with an extension name of "bmp".

By checking the checkbox "Case sensitive ", the files do not match the case in the list will be filtered out.

By checking the checkbox "Exclude filter ", the filenames which do match the keyword will be filtered out.

Quickview

By selecting the "Quickview" checkbox, the picture preview box will open, if a picture file is selected on the file list, the picture will be displayed in the preview box.

How to change file times

First, please check the "Set File Time" checkbox, then all the file time related controls are enabled.

Adjust the new date an time from the date time control box, and check the file time attributes you want to change, then press "Apply Changes" button to set the new date time to the files.

How to change file attributes

First, please check the "Set File Attributes " checkbox, then all the file attributes related controls are enabled.

The current attributes of the selected file will be reflected on those check boxes. To change the file attributes, just check select them, then press "Apply Changes" button to set the new attributes to the files and folders. Note: when you select "Normal", then all other attribute boxes will be un-selected, vice versa.

How to change Ducument summary properties

First, please add doc file to the file list and select it, then please check the "Other Properties" checkbox, and select "Document summary" on the list box, after that, the file properties of the selected file will be editable. By selecting the different property name item on this list, the corresponding property value will be shown on the right edit box. Then, you can enter the property value you want on the right edit box.

If you do not want to change some of the property items, you can remove it from this list by pressing the "delete" key on your keyboard. For example: if you only want to change the value of "Summary_Author", you can select all other items on the list and remove them by pressing "delete" key. Then when you apply the changes, only "Summary_Author" value will be changed for the files.

Hint: hold control key to select multi items from the list.

After you finish editing the property values, you may press the "Apply Changes" button to set all the new property value to the files on the list.

How to edit picture's properties (EXIF)

After adding pictures to the file list and select it, please check the "Other Properties" checkbox, and select "Picture properties (EXIF)" on the list box, after that, the picture properties of the selected file will be listed. By selecting the different property name item on this list, the corresponding property value will be shown on the right edit box. Then, you can enter the property value you want on the right edit box.

If you do not want to change some of the property items, you can remove it from this list by click the "Remove" button or pressing the "delete" key on your keyboard.

If you want to add some EXIF property to the file, just select the property from the combo box and click the "add" button to add it to the property list.

Hint: hold control key to select multi items from the list.

After you finish editing the property values, you may press the "Apply Changes" button to set all the new property value to the files on the list.

Use variables to modify file properties:

Using the variable list, you can add the supported variables to the file property field, and change the file properties. Here're the supported variables:

1. Current Date
“Date DD/MM/YYYY” – current date will be added to the selected property field, formatted as 31/01/2010.
“Date MM/DD/YYYY” – current date will be added to the selected property field, formatted as 01/31/2010.
“Date YYYY-MM-DD” – current date will be added to the selected property field, formatted as 2010-01-31.
“Date long” – current date will be added to the selected property field, formatted as Wednesday, February 03, 2010, using local full date time format.
“Date short” – current date will be added to the selected property field, formatted as 02/03/10, using local short date time format.

2. Current Time
“Time 12H” – current time will be added to the selected property field, in 12 hour format, like 03:49:05 PM.
“Time 24H” – current time will be added to the selected property field, in 12 hour format, like 15:49:18.

3. Date time series
“TimeSeries” – select this item and add it, there will be a variable “<%TimeSeries start from:2010:02:03 16:10:01; step:+1:01:00:00%>” added to the property edit area, by default, it will generate a date time series start from “2010:02:03 16:10:01”, and increase 1 day, 1 hour on each file in the file list.
For example: if you add this variable to the Document Summary_Comment field, then the result will be:
1st file’s comment: 2010:02:03 16:10:01
2nd files’ comment: 2010:02:04 17:10:01
3rd files’ comment: 2010:02:05 18:10:01
…
You can also change the value in the variable directly in the property edit to customize your date time series, e.g. you can change the variable to be “<%TimeSeries start from:2008:01:01 12:00:01; step:+0:00:01:00%>” – means on each file, it will increase by 1 minute, start from January 1st 2008, time: 12:00:01.
Or you can make the series decreasing on each file: “<%TimeSeries start from:2008:01:01 12:00:01; step:-1:00:00:00%>” –means on each file, it will decrease by 1 day, start from January 1st 2008, time: 12:00:01.

4. Number series
“NumberSeries” – select this item and add it, there will be a variable “<%NumberSeries start from:1; step:+1%>” added to the property edit area, by default, it will generate a number series start from 1, and increase by 1 on each file in the file list.
For example: if you add this variable to the Document Summary_Comment field, then the result will be:
1st file’s comment: 1
2nd files’ comment: 2
3rd files’ comment: 3
…
You can also change the value in the variable directly in the property edit to customize your number series, e.g. you can change the variable to be “<%NumberSeries start from:100; step:+10%>” – means on each file, it will increase by 10, start from 100.
Or you can make the series decreasing on each file: “<%NumberSeries start from:1000; step:-1%>” – means on each file, it will decrease by 1, start from 1000.

5. Adjust the existing date time value
"TimeAdjust" - select this item and add it, there will be a variable “<%TimeAdjust +1:01:00:00%>” added to the property edit area, by default, it will increase the existing date time value by 1 day and 1 hour. You can also change the value in the variable directly in the property edit to customize the date time adjust value, e.g. you can change the variable to be “<%TimeAdjust -2:02:02:00%>” – means decrease the date time value by 2 days 2 hours and 2 minutes.

6. Adjust the existing number value
"NumberAdjust" - select this item and add it, there will be a variable “<%NumberAdjust +1%>” added to the property edit area, by default, it will increase the existing number value by 1. You can also change the value in the variable directly in the property edit to customize the number adjust value, e.g. you can change the variable to be “<%NumberAdjust -5%>” – means decrease the number value by 5.

How to undo the changes

After you click the "Apply Changes" button to change the files, this "Undo Changes" button will be enabled, if you don't want to keep the new changes, and want to restore the old file time, attribute and property values, you just need to click this undo button.

Check the result of the operations

All the result of changing the file time, file attribute, and file properties will be displayed in this result box on the bottom. The result for the undo operation will also be displayed here.

How to activate this product online and unlock the full features

(If you haven't purchased this product yet, please purchase it at http://www.foryoursoft.com/buy.htm, this activation service is only provided for paid users)

1. Please click the "Activate" button (with the icon of keys) on the title bar to show the Activation dialog.

2. Then, please fill in your name, email and most importantly the Order ID (which has been sent to you by email after you complete the online order), and click the "Activate Online" button at bottom to unlock the full verison.

Online update

Click the help menu button on the title bar to show the help menu as follow:

Then click on the "Online update" menu item to check for new version online. It will contact our server to get the latest version and prompt you whether to upgrade to the latest version if available. When there's a "(Auto)" tag at the end of this item, it means "File Property Edit" will automatically check for new version every time when it starts. Click this item again will toggle it to not auto check for new version.

Error log and report

All the errors occurred during your use of "File Property Edit" will be logged in a file. Here's how to view it and report it to us.

Click the help menu button on the title bar to show the help menu as follow:

Then, click the "Report error to us" item to send us the error report by email. We will analyze the error report and try to find out the solution for you. You can also view the error log by clicking the "Open error log" item.

Technical support

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