Auto-Organize

Auto-organize scans and organises the selected folder on a fixed interval — without confirmation dialogs.

Turning it on

Sidebar → Auto-organize → Run on a schedule, and set Every … minutes (1–1440; the −/+ buttons step by 15). The card below shows the state, e.g. Active, runs every 60 min.

• It only runs while Simple Organizer is open. It is not a background service.
• The first run happens one interval after you turn it on (or start the app).
• It uses the current scan options and, if enabled, staging mode. Files you set to Don't move in the Preview stay where they are — also after a restart — until you pick another folder.

When a run waits or is skipped

Situation	What happens
Another task is running or a dialog is open	The run waits and starts as soon as everything is free
The computer was asleep	Missed runs are skipped, not repeated one after the other
The folder cannot be found (drive unplugged, network disconnected — also when the app starts)	The card shows Paused: the folder was not found, a notification appears once; it continues when the folder is back. The folder is never swapped for another one.
The folder is an unusual folder (drive root, home folder, C:\Users, system folder, Git repository) that you have not confirmed yet	The card shows Paused: this folder needs one manual scan and confirmation first; scan it once by hand and confirm — the answer is remembered

Undo

Automatic runs appear in History… marked as automatic and can be undone like any other run. They have their own limit of 20, so they never push your manual runs out of the history — see Undo and History. After an undo in the folder that Auto-organize watches, Simple Organizer offers to pause it — otherwise the next run would sort the restored files again.

Tips

• Combine with Rules for things like "PDFs older than a year → Archive" (a rule with the two conditions extension pdf and older_than_days 365).
• If you want to check automatic results before they are final, turn on Staging Mode.