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title: Settings: modifiers, where files land, menu bar
source: https://arazioformac.com/docs/make-it-yours
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# Make it yours

Arazio's settings are in the menu bar: click the Arazio icon, then
**Settings**.

## Which key opens which ring

The defaults are <kbd>⇧</kbd> for formats, <kbd>⌥</kbd> for tools and
<kbd>⌃</kbd> for actions.

If one of those clashes with something else you do while dragging, change it in
**Settings → Modifiers**. Each ring can be put on any of the three keys, and
Arazio will not let you assign the same key to two rings.

Everything in this documentation assumes the defaults. If you change them, read
<kbd>⇧</kbd> as "whichever key you put the formats on".

## Where converted files go

By default, beside the original: same folder, same name, new extension.

**Settings → Output** can change this to a folder you choose, if you would
rather everything landed in one place. The naming is the same either way, and
an existing file is never overwritten — Arazio adds a number instead.

## Sub-folders

Dragging a folder converts the files directly inside it. **Settings → Output →
Include sub-folders** makes it go all the way down, which is occasionally what
you want and occasionally a very long job you did not intend to start.

## The menu bar

Arazio lives in the menu bar and has no Dock icon and no main window. The menu
has the settings, the recent conversions, and a quit item.

**Settings → General → Launch at login** starts it when you log in. Without it
you have to open Arazio before the ring will appear, which is the other common
answer to "why is nothing happening".

## Quality

**Settings → Quality** sets how hard the lossy formats are compressed — JPEG,
WebP, AVIF, MP3, AAC. The default is a high quality that is still meaningfully
smaller than the original.

Lossless formats ignore this setting entirely, because there is nothing for it
to do.

## That is the tour

Six lessons, and you have the whole app. From here:

- [Every format](/docs/formats/heic), and what each converts to
- [Every tool](/docs/tools/compress)
- [Keyboard reference](/docs/shortcuts)
- [Troubleshooting](/docs/troubleshooting), when something is not behaving