You export, import, delete, and restore categories.
About this task
On the Custom Rules and Categories preference
page, you can also export and import categories, delete a category,
and restore the list of categories to the system default.
Procedure
- To export all the current custom categories and their rules
to a file, click Export and specify a file
folder and a file name.
Export saves a copy of all
the currently displayed custom categories and their rules into a single
data file. The existing contents of the file, if any, are discarded.
Export cannot be used to save individual custom categories or rules.
- To import a group of previously exported custom categories
and their contained rules, click Import and
select a file to import from.
The file must be one that
was created by a previous export operation.
Attention: Be
careful not to import a category with the same name as a currently
displayed category. In such a case, the import operation tries to
merge the imported category with the currently displayed category,
with unpredictable results. For this reason, you might want to export
and delete all the currently displayed categories before you import
other categories. You can quickly delete the currently displayed categories
by clicking Restore Defaults.
Import copies all the custom categories from an export
file into the Current Custom Categories list.
Import cannot be used to import individual categories or rules.
- To delete a custom category, select the category and click Delete
Category.
- To empty the list of custom categories and the list of
custom rules, click Restore Defaults.
- To save your recent changes, click Apply.