Sorting files.

It is often difficult to find the files you need among the hundreds of other files and folders that always somehow manage to find their way onto your computer. With Task Attender, you will be able to easily sort files by the necessary criterion (type, name, creation data, file size, etc.) and move them to the necessary folders. Plus, if you schedule this task with Task Attender, you will never have to manually sort new files. Task Attender will do it for you!

Suppose you work on three projects named 'Aura', 'Catonia', and 'Beta'. Files of different types related to these projects contain the names of the projects in their names; for example, 'aura_test.doc', 'catonia_daily_update.xls', etc.  Below you can see a sample task that will move the project files from the 'C:\Inbox' folder to the folders of the corresponding projects: 'C:\Project\Aura', 'C:\Project\Beta', and 'C:\Project\Catonia'.

 

Step 1. Creating a new task.

 

new task

Use the 'New Task' button on the toolbar to create a new task.

 

 

Step 2. Configuring the task.

 

editing task open documents

After you create a new task, you will see the 'Task setup' dialog box where you can configure the parameters of the task.

Type the name of the task in the 'Task name' field.

By default, you can specify a brief description of the task in the 'Task description' field.

Specify the hotkeys for the task.  The task will be run once you
press this key combination.

Clear the 'Enable task' checkbox.  In this case the task will be run
only when you press the hotkey combination.  The scheduler will not run this task automatically.

To save the task, click the 'Save' button:  The new task will be added to task list in the main window of the program after that.

 

 

Step 3. Adding the 'Move' command to the task.

 

select new task

Select the created task in the list of available tasks.You can do this using the mouse or the arrow buttons on the keyboard.

After you click the 'Save' button in the 'Task setup' dialog box, the new task is automatically selected.

 

 

add new command

Click the 'Add new command' button on the left-side toolbar.  You will then see a dialog box where you should select the command type.

 

 

 

add open document command into task

Expand the 'File' group in the tree of available commands.

Select the 'Move' command and click the 'Next' button.

After that you will see the configuration dialog box of the 'Move' command.

 

 

Step 4. Configuring the 'Move files' command.

 

setup new command

Use the 'Browse' button to select the folder from which the files
will be moved.

Specify the mask 'aura*' in the 'Filters' field.  All files that have the word 'aura' in their names will be moved to the target folder.

 

 

destination setup

Use the 'Browse' button to select the folder to which the files will be moved.

To save the task, click the 'Save' button.

 

 

Repeat steps 3 - 4 to add the 'Move files' command for the 'Beta' and 'Catonia' projects . The task that sorts the files has been created.  Now press the
"Ctrl+5" key combination at any time and the task will run.

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