Using EagleFiler

The Finder in Mac OSX is a file browser, and is quite competent at doing what it should be doing. The problem I have is that the Finder really doesn’t allow me to view the files How I want, or support tagging without some support. EagleFiler is the finder replacement that I use for Note and File Management.
The first thing you are going to have to realize is that EagleFiler is not a replacement for the finder, though it can act like one. Because EagleFiler needs to check files into the directories that it maintains there will be some unusual ways of adding files to the maintained directories.

When your first start EagleFiler is is going to want you to create a library, it’s metaphor for the directories you want to create. EagleFiler uses XML files to create entries and maintain metadata information about the files in maintained directories.

Since EagleFiler has to maintain the data about the files it contains, you really can’t add any files to the folders without going through the program. That’s not really a problem since you can double click on the entries in the database ad it will open your files with the default program.

I actually use other programs to hold information, and use Eagle filer to keep all those files together in a neat folder structure. As an example I use Scrivener to keep my stories and books I use EagleFiler to file those documents into project directories on my hard drive. Trying to remember where everything is can be daunting.

So using EagleFiler ca be very simple. EagleFiler wants to control when files are added to the database, so you have to use their droppad or the drop folder. The you can move the file to the directory that you want.

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5. Setting up an encrypted Library in EagleFiler