Feature request: exclude folder on import (1 Viewer)

[campnic]

For what it is worth I've always kinda wanted this feature too. The reason being that Amazon Unbox dumps all downloads into the same directory including a subdir for "Previews" of every episode downloaded so I wind up with double entries for these episodes, one for the actual ep and one for the preview. Of course I know I can move these previews out manually and I've been putting off writing a script to do the same, but I still think a minor feature like this goes a long way towards making things more user friendly and towards a "set-it-and-foreget-it" type of setup where a novice user can just say "import all the television shows on my external hard drive except this one folder for stuff that's problematic or I don't want to admit to people I have " That said, I'm not gunning for anything but if you happen to be in that area of the code at any point, it would be nice.

 

[Inker]

The only problem is to do this correctly this will require a redesign of the configuration part. I'm thinking a nice treecontrol with checkboxes besides all folders.

Or we'll go the ugly way and simple add a checkbox where you define folders to say exclude. This could be done rather quickly and it'll get the job done too. So you would have to define eg:

include Folder: E:\
exclude Folder: E:\folder_with_stuff_not_to_import

 

[campnic]

Hmm, now that you mention it I remember thinking the same which is why I hadn't brought it up before. There isn't really an elegant solution to an inelegant file structure. I actually like your second suggestion better because you can just define a directory that holds tv shows which will include any other subdirs that get created (amazon actually adds a subdir per show in addition to the previews folder at the top level) and ignore any folders you recognized as problematic. Ugh, the more I think about it this is just plain silly to bring up since its really Amazon's problem and no one in their right mind would structure their files in such a random way. Consider my support of this request revoked.

 

[scythe000]

Thanks for the reply, Inker. Granted I'm not doing the coding, but I think the best, lasting solution would be to fo the folder tree option.