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.
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PlatformDesktop — Windows, macOS, Linux
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SafetyAutomatic, recoverable backups
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Interface languageEnglish · Italian
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LicenseAGPL v3 (commercial license available)
Proteus was a minor sea god of Greek mythology, herdsman of the seals of Poseidon, able to take any shape to escape those trying to question him — the word "protean" comes from him. The name fits naturally for a tool that changes the look of hundreds of files while leaving what they actually are untouched.
- 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
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