User Configuration: Processing Tab
Auto Optimization Configuration
Auto Optimization is used anytime a file segment is being added to your fusker collection under a directory
segment which already contains a file segment. This includes Merging
Files as well as the use of
or the URL Capture Bar.
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When this configuration is selected Image Surer Pro will:
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Automatically Building Lists
When a file is being added to a fusker collection there is always a directory segment which contains the file.
When a second image is added to the same directory through the use of
or the URL Capture Bar the two files could be used to create a
single list fusked file regardless of their names since each list entry would be unique.
If {Auto combine individual files into fusked files} is enabled, this is essentially what happens. The file segment being merged into the directory segment will combine with the first existing file segment. The two file segments will combine into a list fusk even if one or both is already fusked and even if they are originally a numeric fusk. This is done by taking each file reference from each segment and individually adding it to a list. Duplicates between the segments are removed at this time.
Once the list fusk is created it is then optimized.
The Optimization Process
Optimization most often addresses segments which have a list fusk but may also effect some numerically fusked segments. It determines the most efficient way to store the information in the list of files reference by the fusk. Optimization is a simple two step process:
- Identify leading and trailing characters which are common to every entry in the list
- Determine if the list can be stored as a numerical fusk
The leading and trailing characters of each entry in the list are inspected. Common leading text is removed and appended to the segment's Pre-Text field. Common trailing characters in the list entries are removed and concatenated to the front of the segment's Post-Text field. This step saves memory and disk storage space by storing the common characters a single time rather than once for each list entry. For existing numeric fusks there may be common leading digits which can be moved to the Pre-Text field.
Fusk Conversion
Once the leading and trailing common characters have been removed from the list members, the list is inspected
to determine if it can be converted to a numeric fusk. In order to be converted, there can be no remaining
non numeric characters in any of the list entries. If all of the entries are numeric they must form a
continuous sequence of numbers which can be described with a start and an end. A numeric fusk usually saves
space over the list fusk because only three numbers need to be stored (Fusk Start, Fusk End, and the number
of digits) as compared to saving each entry as a string.
