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 ====== How to manage your associations ====== ====== How to manage your associations ======
  
-DropIt needs to know how to process files and folders, to automate it. So it allows you to create an unlimited number of Associations ​between Rules to filter files/​folders and the Action to process them. In addition, if you have lots of Associations, DropIt allows you also to organize them in separated ​Profiles.+DropIt needs to know how to process files and folders, to automate it. 
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 +So it allows you to create an unlimited number of associations ​between Rules to filter files/​folders and the Action to process them. 
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 +In addition, if you have lots of associations, DropIt allows you also to organize them in separated ​profiles.
  
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 ===== Manage Associations ===== ===== Manage Associations =====
  
-...+Select "​Associations"​ from the DropIt context menu to manage them. 
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 +You can click the "​+"​ button to create an association or double-click an existing association to edit itYou can also right-click an association to "​Edit"​ it, to "​Duplicate"​ it, to "Copy to..." another profile or to "​Delete"​ it. 
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 +You can create an unlimited number of associations and they are saved in the currently used profile. You can easily switch between profiles using the combo box of this window. 
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 +For each association you have to define: 
 +  - __a unique Name__ to recognize it, 
 +  - some Rules to filter files and folders, 
 +  - the Action to process them 
 +  - and the related Destination. 
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 +For additional information to create your associations you can read tutorials like:\\ 
 +[[howto:​filter_files_and_folders|How to filter files and folders]]\\ 
 +[[howto:​customize_destinations|How to customize destinations]]
  
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 ===== Manage Profiles ===== ===== Manage Profiles =====
  
-...+Select "​Profiles"​ >> "​Customize"​ from the DropIt context menu to manage your profiles. 
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 +You can click the "​+"​ button to create a profile or double-click an existing profile to edit it. You can also right-click a profile to "​Edit"​ its aspect, to "​Duplicate"​ it, to "​Export"​ it or to "​Delete"​ it. 
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 +You can click "​Images"​ button to open the following webpage where download more target images: 
 +http://​www.dropitproject.com/​targets.php 
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 +Finally, from right-click menu you can configure custom profile "​Options"​ to personalize the use from the global defined settings. 
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 +If instead you right-click the table, you can create one of the available profile "​Examples"​ (Archiver, Eraser, Extractor) or "​Import"​ profiles from exported INI, CSV, XLS, XLSX files (Microsoft Office have to be installed to import a profile from XLS or XLSX files).
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