Scheduling is only available in a special version of NameCleaner, available from Sig Software. Please contact us at pricing@sigsoftware.com for pricing and details. This section is included here to provide information on NameCleaner's scheduling abilities, which allow a cleaning operation to be repeatedly performed at a chosen time interval. For example, scheduling could be used on a server so that any new or renamed files created by users on Macintosh computers are checked every 5 minutes to ensure that they can also be read on Windows PCs.

How Scheduling Works

In the Scheduling version of NameCleaner, an extra section appears at the bottom of the Console window where scheduling may be configured. To select a schedule, select an item from the Schedule Cleaning menu. The cleaning will be performed once immediately and then it will automatically occur at the specified time interval.

When the schedule runs, it uses the currently configured Item List. If you change the items in the Item List, the schedule will be performed on that changed list. However, the schedule uses the Option Set which was selected at the time when the schedule was set up. If you want to use a different Option Set for the scheduled cleaning, simply reselect the time delay from the Schedule Cleaning menu and the new Option Set setting will be ‘picked up’. If you change the settings within the Option Set which is selected for cleaning (in the Options dialog box), these changed settings will be used for that Option Set.

To summarize : when the schedule runs, it uses the originally selected Option Set, the currently set options for that Option Set, and the current Item List.

Additional Notes

Because repeated scheduling has the potential to make the report grow too large for memory, the Report List is automatically emptied whenever a schedule runs. Logging also does not take place during scheduled cleans. If you are not happy with these features, we are willing to make a modification. 

If NameCleaner is quit and a schedule is currently set to run, it will automatically remember both the schedule and the Item List when it is relaunched. So you can quit NameCleaner and launch it later in the safe knowledge that the schedule will not have been lost.

If you delete the Option Set which is being used for a cleaning schedule, the schedule will automatically be cancelled.