Developer Capt. PERO 398 Posted November 5, 2016 Developer Share Posted November 5, 2016 ENGLISH: FileSwitcher is a new Feature that comes up with the next version (> 1.3.0 rev.01). Background: Very often 3rd party scenery Addon require to disable files of the scenery to make them compabile with other AddOns. Examples are FTX GEN Germany North, Simmershome LightPatch and many more. FileSwitcher gives you two major benefits: Very easy and comfortable GUI based file renaming PRESET with a lot of "SwitchSets" that are based on common recommendations of the AddOn Vendors PLEASE ONLY USE FILESWITCHER IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING! FileSwitcher renames files inside your file strukture which can cause problems with AddOns. We dont't support errors after renaming files, we just provide the tool to do it. Requirements: SIMstarter NG > 1.3.0 rev. 01 HowTo Using FileSwitcher Search and Switch: Please login to display this image. Select the root folder for searching the files Enter a search string (Wildcards * are allowed) Check "Search without subdirectories" if you don't want to search sub directories as well Click "Search" and Results will show the search results Check all lines that you want to switch At Switch files you can choose if you want to "Add a file extention" or "Remove a file extention" (see example below) Click "Switch" to rename the selected files Example: "Add extention" will rename "test.bgl" to "text.bgl.offSIMstarterNG" "Remove extention" will rename "test.bgl.offSIMstarterNG" to "test.bgl" HowTo use Presets: A lot of presets will come up front with SIMstarter NG FileSwitcher. At the moment we have: Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Select your current ConfigSet (Presets are marked as "Preset") Once the preset has been selected the result shows you colored lines (green=File already switched, red=file not found, gray=file ready to switch) Check all files that should be renamed Click "Switch files" to rename all selected files You can create your own "SwitchSets" as well for individual "renameing jobs". This SwitchSets can be created from the Logfile (previous switches) or by choosing files from the filesystem. Note: Presets can't be modfied. To modify them create a copy. (Deutsche Anleitung folgt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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