WHAT DOES BAT FILER DO?

    Bat Filer is a program that let's you do things that can't be easily done with Apple's Finder™ software: manipulate groups of files (possibly in many folders) at once.  For example, you can lock a set of files with a single command, or copy files from several different folders to a single destination folder.

    Bat Filer's operation centers around a list (or, batch) of files.  Files are added to the list either:

    • one at a time from a standard file dialog,
    • or by folder; adding a folder to the list adds all the files in that folder, including files in folders inside the original folder, etc,
    • or by searching the currently mounted volumes for files that match criteria that you set.

    Once you have a list, you can do things to all the files in it, such as:

    • Set the Type and/or Creator of files.
    • Rename files.
    • Lock/Unlock files.
    • Move files to a folder.
    • Make copies of files.
    • Delete the files.
    • Launch an application, passing files to it.

    Bat Filer also allows you to perform these operations on any individual file.

    Some of Bat Filer's other abilities include:

    • Opening and printing text files.
    • Peeking at any file, showing the graphic contents of certain types of graphic file, version data on applications, and "raw bytes" of other type files.
    • Generating and printing Reports on the file list.