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This tool is not available when connected to a server
mwillems:
The easiest way by far is to have a shared directory that auto-import on the server "watches." You can recreate your RMCF templates as tag on import rules, and then all your clients will need to do is drag the files to the shared directory. The server will then pick up the files within a few minutes, apply the templates and it will be the same as if you'd done your old workflow, with the added bonus that your clients have fewer steps to do (i.e. it's actually easier on users this way as they don't need to be aware of templates).
If anything goes wrong or if there's anything that can't be done through tag on import, you might need to remote into your server as Arindelle suggested, but it's much, much easier to do than it sounds and works a treat, and you can do it at your leisure (i.e. your clients will still have access to the files in the meanwhile). But tag on import should be able to do 90% of the heavy lifting automagically. I do this at my house, and remote into the server at the end of the day and work through the recently imported list and do any changes I need to do, etc. It's a bit of work for me, but it's completely transparent to the family, they just know they need to put the files in the "watched" directory (or in the case of my wife's phone, I have it auto-uploading her pics to the server at intervals so she doesn't have to remember at all).
Mike Foran:
--- Quote from: mwillems on February 15, 2016, 10:21:08 am ---The easiest way by far is to have a shared directory that auto-import on the server "watches." You can recreate your RMCF templates as tag on import rules, and then all your clients will need to do is drag the files to the shared directory. The server will then pick up the files within a few minutes, apply the templates and it will be the same as if you'd done your old workflow, with the added bonus that your clients have fewer steps to do (i.e. it's actually easier on users this way as they don't need to be aware of templates).
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Thanks this looks like the way to go. I'm having a couple issues but that's a different subject so I'll move it into a new thread.
RoderickGI:
--- Quote from: Arindelle on February 15, 2016, 06:06:09 am ---As I said above, the final version of 20 already was like this ... this is not a version 21 change so lets not get all worked up about this. I don't know which exact version, but I checked the 20.0.132.
careful when you make statements like this. This can be confusing to people.
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This is what I meant.
--- Quote ---21.0.30 (12/22/2015)
5. Changed: Made the "Rename, Move, & Copy Files" tool no longer available when connected to a server (because the results were confusing anyway).
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This is when access to RMCF from a Client was removed and replaced with the message "This tool is not available when connected to a server" which Mike originally reported.
Prior to this a user on a Client could still access the RMCF tool, but Moves didn't work unless there were mapped drive set up as Mike had them, which most people didn't. So results were messy. Copy did work, if everything was set up correctly.
But the solution proposed, using a shared directory and tagging on import, sounds like a better long term solution.
glynor:
--- Quote from: RoderickGI on February 15, 2016, 03:33:25 pm ---Copy did work, if everything was set up correctly.
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Copy did work at one time, but it is/was broken as of the last build of MC20. It makes the destination folders, but never starts the copy of the files.
That's what I want to look up. When that broke, or if I'm crazy and it never worked.
Mike Foran:
Auto import works ok as long as the tags are already in good shape. My process was to get tags into shape the way i want them, then import with sorting rules based on the tags. i can set those same import rules for auto-import, but if the tags are broken the files get screwed up. I much prefer my old method. It would be nice if the dev team could find a way to bring this functionality back in a way that everyone can use it, not just specific cases like mine.
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