Using Flood Fill Notes

Flood Fill Notes enables you to quickly add keywords to a set of specified files without having to edit each file's Note fields individually.

This is ideal for creating large numbers of similar notes that may apply to multiple files (e.g. notes associated with a particular projects, groupings of photos and images etc.)

Notes

• Flood Fill Notes is run from the Main Toolbar Notes Menu
• Flood Fill Notes apply to the local folder displayed in the File List Pane

1. Navigate to the folder where you wish to apply the flood fill

2. Click on Notes, click on Flood Fill Notes

3. The Flood Fill Main Window provides the options for specifying how the Flood Fill will operate

4. Enter the file match criteria for the files that FNO³ will flood fill (see File Match Criteria Construction)

5. Enter any keywords or Notes that are to be applied to all files meeting the search criteria

Note

• FNO³ will append all Flood Fill Notes to existing Notes unless Overwrite Existing Notes is checked. If Overwrite Existing Notes is checked then matched files will have their Notes overwritten by the Notes entered in the Fill Notes fields

6. After completing the selections of the Create Catalog Main Window click Start

7. FNO³ will confirm the files matching the filter criteria. Uncheck any files in the results list to exclude those files from the Flood Fill

8. Click OK for FNO³ to apply the Flood Fill to all files in the Confirm Addition of Notes window

File Match Criteria Construction

File match phrases can be constructed through the use of various wildcards as shown in the table below.

Note 

• The OR and AND wildcards cannot be used together in the same match phrase
• Multiple OR's or multiple AND's are supported in the same match phrase

Example File Match Criteria

Creating Notes
Writing Notes on Multiple Files
Searching for Notes

Creating a Clip Art CD Catalog using Flood Fill