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  • How can I upgrade from SyncTime Lite to the full SyncTime version?

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    When you purchase SyncTime, you can uninstall SyncTime Lite from the Launchpad or by manually dragging it from the Applications folder to the bin. The settings created in SyncTime Lite will be used automatically by SyncTime. Warning: keep in mind that the only limitation of SyncTime Lite is that when the app is closed and…

  • Can I convert between WebVTT and SRT files?

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    Yes, when you open a document in Underword, you can save it in the other format as well.

  • How can I avoid syncing custom directory icons?

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    Custom directory icons can be set in the Finder by opening the Info panel (from the main menu View > Get Info, or by pressing Command-I) and dragging an image onto the icon on the top left of the Info panel. A custom icon can be removed again by clicking it in the Info panel…

  • How can I create a backup of SyncTime itself?

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    To create a copy of the settings, you can export them from the File menu or the main window context menu. This is the preferred way of saving the settings when you are planning to use SyncTime on a new Mac, knowing that the syncs from the old Mac are up to date and the…

  • WebVTT

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    WebVTT (Web Video Text Track Format) is supported by many internet browsers and video players, but every one of them seems to interpret it differently. Subtitles are always displayed somehow, but their position, size and styling can vary. Rendering Underword allows editing all the subtitle and region attributes defined by WebVTT, but the resulting rendering…

  • The translation nightmare

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    In early January 2023 I commissioned the translation of one of my apps from English to French to the translation agency UniTranslate based in Zürich, Switzerland. Since my first contact email I was taken care of by the business owner, Mr. Polat. The translation I got back was full of errors of all kinds (punctuation,…

  • How to link the same “What’s new” text for multiple locales

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    By default, the “What’s new” text is saved in a file named What’s new.txt in the corresponding language and platform directory. If you decide to publish release notes in a single language, you can link the files of the other languages to the base language via symbolic links. Note: if you use Localiji to edit…

  • App menu localizations

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    Arabic (ar) Catalan (ca) Czech (cs) Danish (da) German (de) Greek (el) English (Australia) (en-AU) English (United Kingdom) (en-GB) English (en) Spanish (Latin America) (es-419) Spanish (es) Finnish (fi) French (Canada) (fr-CA) French (fr) Hebrew (he) Hindi (hi) Croatian (hr) Hungarian (hu) Indonesian (id) Italian (it) Japanese (ja) Korean (ko) Malay (ms) Norwegian Bokmål (nb)…

  • How do I solve the error “Setting the custom file icon failed”?

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    This error usually happens when the destination volume doesn’t support custom file icons. You can check if the destination volume supports custom file icons by manually setting one in the Finder. Custom directory icons can be set in the Finder by opening the Info panel (from the main menu View > Get Info, or by…

  • Can SyncTime run while the Mac is asleep?

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    If the sync schedule of a sync item is set to a time when the Mac is asleep, macOS automatically delays the sync until the Mac wakes up again. There might be instances where you want a sync to run while you’re not using your Mac, such as if a sync is expected to copy…