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Archive for May, 2008

Keyboard Maestro 3.1

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

A nice update to the best macro program for Mac OS X.

Auto Uploads And Uploading to Multiple Destinations

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Auto Uploads

An Auto Upload is a mapping associating a local folder with a remote folder. When you drop a file or folder on to Interarchy (that is, on to the Interarchy application icon of the Interarchy Dock icon), if the file is inside an Auto Upload local folder, it will automatically be uploaded to the appropriate location inside the remote folder.

Think of an Auto Upload as a smart Droplet.

To create an Auto Upload, choose File » New » Auto Upload…, enter the location of the remote folder and select the corresponding local folder. Make sure the path specified exactly corresponds to the remote folder (although the contents do not need to be identical as would be the case for a mirror).

When you drop a file (or folder) on to Interarchy, it will check whether the file is inside an Auto Upload. If so, it will find the relative location within the Auto Upload folder, and then upload the file to the correct location within the remote destination as specified by the Auto Upload.

The uploaded file or folder is merged on to the remote site, so nothing is ever deleted, although remote files may be overwritten with new data. All files in an uploaded folder are uploaded, no mirroring happens.

You can view or edit your Auto Uploads in the Auto Uploads collection.

Note that since any changes you make and any Auto Upload that happens will not be noted by any existing mirror or Net Disk, when you next sync a disk or run a mirror it will appear as if both the local and remote files have changed, so depending on the type of mirror, the local files will be uploaded again, or the remote files will be downloaded, or (for Mirror Both Ways) Interarchy will try to guess which of the two is more up to date and transfer. As such it would be best to only use an Auto Upload together with Mirror Upload.

Uploading to Multiple Destinations

If you regularly upload the same file (or folder) to multiple destinations you can use Auto Uploads to automate the process.

Create an Auto Upload for each remote destination you want to upload to. The key step is to select the same local folder for each Auto Upload that you create.

Now, when you drop a file (or folder) on to Interarchy, it will check whether the file is inside each Auto Upload you have created. If so, Interarchy will upload the file to the correct location as specified by the Auto Upload.

Interarchy Contextual Menu Plug-in

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Many applications take advantage of special contextual menus. You can use these menus to quickly choose commands or perform actions specific to the current selection.

Different items appear in contextual menu depending on the context. To see the contextual menu for an item hold down the Control key and click the item.

The Interarchy Contextual Menu plug-in allows Interarchy to add items to the contextual menu of other applications. For example you can use the Interarchy Contextual Menu plug-in to:

  • Upload a file from the Finder.
  • From Safari, send a URL to Interarchy to download.
  • Mark a file or folder to be ignored when mirroring.

To install the Interarchy Contextual Menu plug-in go to the Advanced Preference Pane and click the “Install Interarchy Contextual Menu” button.

Not every application supports contextual menu plug-ins, but great ones like BBEdit and Path Finder do. If an application doesn’t support contextual menu plug-ins you might find solace by using the Services Interarchy provides.

The Interarchy Contextual Menu plug-in is installed in

~/Library/Contextual Menu Items

To disable the plug-in simply remove it from this folder and restart your Mac.