Introducing Folder Manager for JPEGmini
I built Folder Monitor for JPEGmini (FMJM) to streamline my workflow, and it just works!
I use JPEGmini multiple times each day, but I no longer use Capture One Pro or Lightroom, so the available plugins don’t help. I have been forced to open JPEGmini and drag my images to it to process them. It’s not a huge job, but in reality, I generally stopped using JPEGmini, and that means that my images are much larger, and when preparing images for the web, large images result in lower SEO scores. Even just for the JPEGs I store in Apple Photos to share across my various devices takes up way more room if I don’t push them through JPEGmini first.
Now any application that exports JPEGs works seamless with JPEGmini!
With a tiny footprint, FMJM sits in the toolbar and optionally in your Dock as well, and after you specify a folder to monitor and an output folder, which must be the same as the output folder you set in JPEGmini, you simply export your JPEGs to the monitored folder, and Folder Monitor for JPEGmini detects the images straight away, and starts to send them to JPEGmini for processing. If you set up multiple output formats, we wait for all copies of your images to complete, then we can optionally clean up your originals if you no longer need them.
Elevator Speach Video
Check out our 1-minute elevator speech style video to quickly share how Folder Monitor for JPEGmini works.
If you want to open your output folder to immediately access your images, we can either open the folder when processing starts or wait for it to finish.
Once set up, Folder Monitor for JPEGmini can launch at login, hide itself in the Dock, and automatically hide the main window, leaving just an icon in the system toolbar. I like to show the logo on screen briefly when starting my computer so that I know it’s alive and kicking.
When you need to change settings, just click the toolbar icon to see the menu below and access the main window, settings, or help documentation instantly.
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Duplicate Management
Sometimes, while I’m exporting images I want realize something needs changing, so I export it again. Until now, that’s meant going to my export folder and deleting the previous image first, or deleting it later, then cleaning up the extra numbers in the filename of the latter exports.
If you export the same image multiple times with Folder Manager for JPEGmini, we display a dialog asking you how to proceed. You can delete the prevoius version of the new image and simply reprocess it, so you only have one clean copy, or choose to ignore the fact that it’s a duplicate and export it anyway, or simply abort the process if necessary. All options can be made the default action by turning on Always do this without asking, and if you change your mind, you can reset this in the Settings panel.
And, if you re-export a mix of new images and duplicates, we just send everything that’s new to JPEGmini so that isn’t affected by the choice you make here.
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Questions & Support
If you have any questions or problems with our software, please don’t hesitate to contact us.