Utilities: Commenteer
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Commenteer is a drop utility for managing file comments in batch. You can use the program for:
• Erasing comments
• Setting comments with a text field, or from the clipboard
• Appending extensions to comments
• Prepending prefixes to comments
• Listing comments to console log
• Setting comments from file's web location or EXIF dates
These operations can be applied to a group of files, or folders. To use Commenteer just drop a folder or collection of files on it or the main status window:
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The main status window displays progress as it processes the comments:
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Click the "Preferences" button to specify options:
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The function performed is determined from the value selected in the Operation popup menu:
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The operations are as follows:
• Erase Comments: Removes the comments from all the files.
• Set Comments: Sets the comment of all the files to the text specified in the "New Comment, Extension or Prefix" field:
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• Set Comments From Clipboard: Sets the comment of all files to the text on the clipboard.
• List Comments: Prints a list of the comments for each file in the Console log. Each entry is of the form
<file pathname><line feed><comment>
• Import Comments: Sets the comment of individual files by importing them from a text file. Each line of the import file is of the form
<file name><tab><comment>
When using this opertaion remember to include the files extension, which may be invisible in the Finder. Also, the name is case sensitive.
• Append Comments: Sets the comment of individual files by appending the text in the "New Comment, Extension or Prefix" field.
• Prepend Comments: Sets the comment of individual files by prepending the text in the "New Comment, Extension or Prefix" field.
• Set Comments From Web Location: Sets the comment of a web location file (extension "webloc") to its web location URL.
• Set Comments From EXIF Date: Sets the comment of a photo to its EXIF date.
Screenshots
Main window:
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Selecting an operation:
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Dragging files or folders onto the main window:
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Comments set:
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Universal Binary, Mac OS X 10.4.4 and above.