Chaos Antidote

Chaos Antidote - Frequent application prevents your computer from descending into chaos
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  • License:
  • Free to try
  • Price:
  • $10.00
  • Publisher Name:
  • David Stark
  • Operating Systems:
  • Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP
  • File Size:
  • 2.87MB

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Chaos Antidote Description

Chaos Antidote is a tool for keeping order on your hard drive. It can take care of the clutter that builds up on your desktop and in other places. It does so by taking the wayward files and sorting them neatly into different folders so you can find them again later. Frequent application prevents your computer from descending into chaos. The way it goes about doing this is that for each folder it's assigned to keep tidy, it has a "whitelist" of items that should be in that folder. In the above example, the three items on the right-hand list are items that are the supposed contents of folder "A". The three other items in the folder are not on CA's whitelist. What happens to the items CA finds? A set of rules is applied to each of them. Those rules determine where the items are put. A JPEG (.jpg) file would be put into the Pictures folder, for example. Note that CA never deletes anything - it's just neatly sorted and tidied away in folders where you can find it again. Note that when Chaos Antidote encounters a folder that is not on the whitelist, it will move that folder as a whole. It does not inspect the contents of the folder. In order to prevent CA from moving large amounts of information across drives, each drive is treated separately. If this is your first time using Chaos Antidote, pressing the "Main Interface" button will prompt you to select which volume you want CA to operate on. You can manage your drives through the "Volumes" menu. The "Run Chaos Antidote" application is responsible for the actual cleaning. Upon launch it will do its job and then quit again, only pausing if it has found problems it needs to report. If you installed the system tray icon, you can run chaos antidote from its menu. The "Undo Chaos Antidote" application takes the log-file created by "Run Chaos Antidote" and moves all files back to where they were before CA last ran. This way, if you realise you made a mistake with configuring CA, you can simply go back to where you were before. Limitations: ■ 30 days trial.


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