In my primary use case, 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 opening JPEGmini and dragging my images to it to process them, and although it’s not a huge job, I generally stopped using JPEGmini. 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.

In addition, I also add my images to Apple Photos to synch between my devices, and in any given situation, I might need to do three or four other things with my images, so I expanded my idea to creating a Control Panel that enabled me to direct not just images, but any file I send to Monitored Folders and pass them intelligently to other folders and applications. The result, is Folder Monitor Relay, or FMR for short.

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.