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.
- ClearSearchWhenChangingSources
- Normally EagleFiler preserves your search query when you
view different sources, so that you can easily search different folders
without retyping it. You can optionally set EagleFiler to clear the
search
so that clicking on a different folder takes EagleFiler out of search mode
and shows you all the records.
- 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 displaying an HTML file or Web archive.
However, you can also disable plug-ins if you don’t
want to see this content.
- ExcludeIndexesFromBackup
- EagleFiler’s index files are normally included in Time Machine backups. This way, you
can immediately search your library after restoring it from backup. To save
space on the backup device and speed up your backups, you can set EagleFiler
to exclude the indexes from backups. The downside
to this is that, as with Spotlight, you’ll have to wait for the files to be
re-indexed after restoring.
- FindPanelDiacriticInsensitive
- EagleFiler’s Find panel normally works like TextEdit’s. Searching
for “e” does not find “é”. You can also make EagleFiler’s Find panel
diacritic-insensitive so that
“e” matches “é”, “ü” matches “u”, etc., as always happens with EagleFiler’s
library search and Spotlight. This feature does not work in Web or PDF
views, and it requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
- 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.
- ImportSpotlightKeywords
- EagleFiler normally ignores Spotlight keywords when importing
files to avoid cluttering your tags list with irrelevant or incorrect
entries. You can also set EagleFiler to import Spotlight keywords as tags if you
generally like the keywords that are assigned to your files.
- ImportTextAsWebArchive
- When importing the selected text from a Web view (via drag and drop, the
Service menu, or the Import Clipboard command), EagleFiler
normally uses the Web archive format, as this
preserves all of the original information. You can instead set it to
import in RTF(D) format for easier
editing.
- 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.
- SendsWholeSearchString
- Normally EagleFiler updates the search results as you type. If you are a slow
typer, it may do this after each letter, causing the search to take a long
time. You can instead set EagleFiler to only do the search once, when you
press Return.
- ShowImagesInMessages
- Normally EagleFiler will show images in HTML e-mails, but you can also tell
it to not load them if
you’re concerned about Web bugs.
- TagCommentPrefix
- If a record is tagged unread and flagged EagleFiler will normally set
the Spotlight comments to &flagged &unread. This allows for
integration with other applications that follow this convention, and it
lets you use Spotlight to search for files with particular tags. You can
set it to use no prefix
so that it instead sets the comments to flagged unread or set the
prefix to “&” or go
back to the default.