OK guys, for those of you with a Mac, I present to you
*** THE AMAZING A4 KIT SORTING MACHINE ***
it's a little app which can apply that one-to-one pattern-kit relationship to an existing A4 backup.
Just feed it a FULL BACKUP file and hit the sort button. It will create a modified backup file with the following tweaks:
Say, pattern A1 and A2 are both linked against kit 3, so it will make duplicates of that kit in slot 1 and 2 and link both patterns to their own kit. Optionally, it will also add the pattern name to the kit name. So a kit named "SUPERSMURFS" linked to pattern A01 becomes "A01 SUPERSMURFS".
It will do this with all kits, so every pattern gets its own kit, while your pattern/kit combinations are being preserved.
This should work on any Mac with OSX 10.7 +.
DOWNLOAD:
http://cl.ly/350y2A1c0N2nSo this is a first test, I've just finished writing it, and actually typing these lines I now realise that there is a BIG FLAW:
The current version will blatantly overwrite any kits which are not linked by a pattern.
So yeah.. while the app is far from perfect, if you find the time to play around with it, I'd be happy to hear how it works out for you.. or if opens at all on your computer, crashes etc...