To limit excessive navigating in folder structures you can give the initial folder of Txt2fil browsers like the selection panel
When creating folder and file names, Windows does not accept every character. Some characters are invalid. If Txt2fil meets such a character then it can optionnally replace such a character by something you choose. For instance you can replace them by EDITMANUALLY or TEMP or by an underscore ( _ ) or by nothing (leave field empty) and so on... .
- The default extension for the output files is "txt". You can change this using this option. Possible alternative extensions are: log, ini, tmp and so one... .
- Opt for "Always use this extension" when you do not plan to include names wich already include an extension in the text file. Advantage: Names like J.R. Ewing will become J.R. Ewing.txt. Disadvantage: "test.zip" would become "test.zip.txt".
Opt for "Do not add extension when one is found in input" when you will include names with extensions in the input file. Eg when "test.zip" is a name in the input text file file, then the result will remain "test.zip" instead of becoming "test.zip.txt". So every time a dot is found, the name will remain unchanged.
Bear in mind that changing the extension does not change the file header; the output files all remain simple text files!
A window similar to this pops up:
- Standard the "No fill" option is chosen. So the created files will all be empty.
- You can choose to enter text in each file: either you enter the line from the source file or you can enter a (template) text by choosing a file containing this text. You can also choose for both options: the source line AND a template.
An example for a template:
Suppose you want to keep track of the daily progress of election candidates by making a daily summary then you could use a template like this saved in a simple txt file like Elections-Candidates.txt:
Barack Obama
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Positive:
Negative:
Hillary Clinton
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Positive:
Negative:
Note that the main source file in this case would, of course, contain on each line a date.
Putting also this date on top of each created file would be easy to do by checking both options in the 'Enter single text"-box.
- You can opt too for a fixed size for the resulting files chosing "Fixed fill size". In that case you can enter the desired sizes.
- The last option is "Variable sizes". In this case you first create a source text file which does include, on top of the (future) file names a separator and the desired sizes for each file.
An example:
cat|5
dog|1000
fish|10000
bird
If you chose "|" as a separator then following files would be created:
cat.txt with a size of 5 bytes
dog.txt with a size of 1000 bytes
fish.txt with a size of 10000 bytes
bird.txt with a size of 0 bytes
Attention: Standard, if the separator is not found on a certain line then the resulting file will be empty. However, using the option "Use fixed size when no size found", you can eventually force the file to be filled with a certain size anyway when no separator is found.