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Big Mean Folder Machine
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About
Big Mean Folder Machine is an easy-to-use utility for managing files and folders.It can split files into folder hierarchies or merge them into a single folder.Featuring a familiar wizard-style interface, Big Mean Folder Machine is an indispensable tool for anyone working with large file collections—including digital photographers, content creators, post-production specialists, system administrators, and other creative professionals.
IDEAL FOR (RE)ORGANIZING PHOTO COLLECTIONS
Big Mean Folder Machine understands everything about the dates and times embedded in your digital image files—whether in JPEG EXIF or RAW format.With just a few clicks, you can reorganize your entire photo collection into a customizable folder hierarchy.Want to organize your photos by year and month?Click.Click.Done.Prefer a deeper hierarchy featuring year, month, and day?Click.Click.Done.
WE LOVE YOUR MUSIC, TOO
Big Mean Folder Machine is just as useful for your music collections; it can read ID3 tags (Artist, Album, Title, Year, etc.) and use them to sort your entire collection into a pristine folder hierarchy of your own design.CREATE FIXED-SIZE FOLDERS
Anyone who has ever tried to burn a large collection of files onto physical media—such as DVDs or CDs—will appreciate Big Mean Folder Machine's ability to create batches of folders of a specific size, allowing you to back up each folder onto a separate storage medium.
MERGE MULTIPLE FOLDERS
Big Mean Folder Machine doesn't just split files into folders; it can also do the reverse—namely, consolidate files from numerous folders and folder hierarchies into a single folder.Not only is doing this manually extremely tedious, but you also face real difficulties when encountering files with identical names across multiple folders.Big Mean Folder Machine resolves these issues using a customizable algorithm for resolving filename conflicts.
SECURITY, FLEXIBILITY, AND INDUSTRIAL-GRADE ROBUSTNESS
All of this would be useless if there weren't a secure, flexible, and capable engine running beneath those attractive buttons.Big Mean Folder Machine features a powerful, database-driven 64-bit data processing engine capable of moving hundreds of thousands of files and terabytes of data, all while resolving thorny issues such as filename conflicts.
Big Mean Folder Machine provides you with a complete (!) preview of the folder hierarchies it will create *before* taking any action. By default, your files are *copied*—rather than moved—to the new location, leaving you with a perfect original copy in case anything doesn't go exactly as expected.For the more adventurous user, moving files is, of course, also an option—saving both time and disk space—though it is inherently less safe.WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
“We would like to register a protest under the Trade Descriptions Act. Big Mean Folder Machine is neither big nor mean. In fact, it is actually quite small and polite, helping you organize your scattered files and folders with minimal mess and fuss.”— 4 out of 5 Mice, Macworld, December 2008"As others have noted, this app is, in many respects, a 'killer app.' Given the incredible number of photos—or other files, for that matter—that you can accumulate in a short period, this app is a godsend. Let's say you have 1,000 vacation photos that you want to split into folders containing 100 photos each. Click, click, click—and it's done. This thing has saved my bacon more times than I can count. Free time is fun!" — Killer Klown Kar on MacUpdate, November 2010.
"Awesome. It saved me at least a full day of work while I was rearranging 7 years' worth of photos—moving them from various folders into a unified structure with the precise naming and dating organization required for my transition to a new workflow." — Zaph on MacUpdate, March 2010.