Managing the queue

Picmal processes files as a queue. You can drop up to 10,000 files at once and manage the batch while it runs: reorder by priority, pause, resume, or cancel without losing your place.

Right-click menu

Right-click any file in the list to:

• Show in Finder — reveal the source file (or its output) in Finder
• Set priority — High, Normal, or Low (see below)
• Remove from list — drop the file from the queue

Show in Finder lives in this menu now, so there’s no separate “File” column taking up space in the table.

File priority

Give an urgent file a head start. Right-click it and pick High, Normal, or Low priority. High-priority files jump to the front and get processed first, even mid-batch. Bump a file up while a large queue is already running and it gets picked up next, rather than waiting for everything ahead of it.

Pause and resume

Click Pause to halt the batch, and Resume to pick up where you left off. Pause stops files that are mid-conversion too, not just the ones still waiting, so it takes effect immediately rather than finishing the current file first.

Cancel

Click Cancel to stop the batch. Picmal stops quickly and tidies up after itself: any file that was interrupted returns to Waiting instead of looking stuck, so you can restart the batch cleanly.

Watching progress

While a batch runs, the file list scrolls smoothly and each file shows its own progress. The “X of Y files” counter at the bottom tracks the whole batch and updates all the way to the total. For audio and video, Picmal also shows the conversion speed and an estimated time remaining.

Schedule for later

Don’t want a big batch hogging your Mac right now? Tap the clock button next to Convert (or Compress) and pick a start time. Handy for kicking off large jobs overnight. The bottom bar shows what’s queued and when it’ll run, you get a notification when it finishes, and a scheduled batch survives quitting and reopening Picmal, so you don’t have to leave the app open in the meantime.