Replace and Rename 1.4 - User Guide and FAQ

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Frequently Asked Questions - Replace and Rename

1. What is a plug-in?
   Plug-in is standalone module which can process files selected in program. All plug-ins made by ReplSoft Inc. is free for registered users.
   
   
2. What is a basket drive?
   Basket drive is a list of files. It contains only links to files and it helpful for works with files. Basket can contain links to files which placing on different disks. Even on a network drives.
   
   If you want to process files from directory and from it's subdirectories you can send all files from that directory to the basket. Just select this directory and press to a button "Send to basket" or through pressing F5 or F6 key (no matter). After that set basket drive as current and select files which you want to process (There are many way how you can select files. See help file). Besides you can send files found by Finder to the basket for processing their in the future.
   
   
3. How I can work with plug-ins?
   For work with plug-ins you must select some files, which you want to process and load necessary utility from menu\plug-ins.
   
   
4. How I can easily rename a directory? The current name of the directory should be given as the default!
   In the file panel select the directory and press Shift+F6. This opens the rename window. To rename the directory, type the new name and press Enter key.
   
   
5. Can I replace non-printinting characters?
   Yes. For this work we made external utility (plug-in) - "Batch Replacer". With use of this utility you can find any character in text by ASCII code of this character. Before code you must entered special symbol #. For example #13, 10#. "Batch Replacer" supports all characters, which has ASCII code from 0 to 255.
   
   
6. Is there a wildcard I can use to grab and replace ALL the text?
   Utility "Batch Replacer" has a wildcard which allows deleting all information from files. Files will have length equal to a length of a new text. For make it input #*# in the "Find this string" field. And in the "and Replace with" field enter a needed text.