You can set esoteric EagleFiler preferences by clicking the links on
this page. Unlike with regular preferences, you must generally quit and
re-launch EagleFiler in order for an esoteric preference to take effect.
- AutomaticallyBackupMetadata
- EagleFiler automatically backs up your
libraries’ metadata (and, at the same time, copies tags to the
Spotlight comments, if you’ve asked it to do that), but you can turn
this feature off for a
slight speed increase.
- CalculateFolderSizes
- This controls whether EagleFiler calculates folder sizes to display
them in the records list. Turning off this feature
will increase EagleFiler’s responsiveness.
- DefaultMessageEncoding
- When a message doesn’t specify which text encoding it uses,
EagleFiler has to guess. An incorrect guess may cause the message to
display using strange accents or garbage characters. By default
EagleFiler guesses MacRoman, but
you can change it to guess ISO Latin 1
instead.
- EnableWebPlugIns
- Normally, EagleFiler will show content from Web
plug-ins (such as Flash) when displaing an HTML file or Web archive.
However, you can also disable plug-ins if you don’t
want to see this content.
- FolderMailboxTitleSeparateFromFilename
- Normally EagleFiler will keep the titles of folders and
mailboxes in sync
with their filenames. You can also set it to allow the titles to be
distinct
from the filenames. This is potentially useful if you need to manage
a folder structure using fixed filenames but you want to have
longer, more descriptive titles in EagleFiler.
- HighlightSearchMatches
- Normally EagleFiler will highlight in the record viewer the words
that match your search query. Disabling this feature will
provide a speed increase.
- InvisibleMetadataFiles
- This controls whether EagleFiler Metadata.plist files are
visible
or invisible.
- MarkNewRecordsAsUnread
- Normally EagleFiler will mark newly imported records as unread, but you
can also tell it to leave them untagged.
- MaxEditableTextFileSizeInMB
- Normally EagleFiler will display the entire contents of a
text file, even if it’s many megabytes. This can take a long time,
especially when using Mac OS X 10.4. You can speed it up by setting
EagleFiler to only show the first 10 MB of a
text file.
- MediaStyle
- If a Web page includes multiple stylesheets, you can choose whether
EagleFiler displays it using the print stylesheet or the default
stylesheet.
- TagCommentPrefix
- If a record is tagged unread and flagged EagleFiler will
normally set the Spotlight comments to flagged unread. You can
set the prefix to & so that it
instead sets the comments to &flagged &unread (for better
integration with software like TagBot and Quicksilver) or go back to
the default of using no prefix.