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Proteus

Changes what hundreds of files look like, without changing where they live.

Proteus — named after the shape-shifting sea god — handles the bulk replacement of logo and graphic files across an entire folder tree: a company file server, a website checkout, a network share.

It finds the files that match a pattern, pairs each one with the most suitable replacement, and shows a before/after preview of every pairing before writing anything. Only once you've confirmed does it overwrite — atomically, with recoverable backups.

Doing this by hand across hundreds of files is slow and, worse, silently risky: it's easy to drop a banner where a favicon belonged. Proteus automates the finding and the pairing, but deliberately keeps the person in the loop, with a quality grade that says where the automation is confident and where it's guessing.

  • Platform
    Desktop — Windows, macOS, Linux
  • Safety
    Automatic, recoverable backups
  • Interface language
    English · Italian
  • License
    AGPL v3 (commercial license available)
  • Searches with wildcard patterns, multiple at once, even over flaky network shares
  • Pairs each file with the closest match by resolution and name, with a quality grade
  • Lets you correct a pairing by hand with a double-click
  • Writes atomically: no file is ever left half-truncated by a failure
  • Runs a full dry run that touches no file at all
  • Restores everything from the backups with one click, at any time