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Otto's Gone Schizo
glynor:
Another huge problem with this that I could see would be using Otto to watch folders on Network Drives. Even if you vastly improve the "thread separation" of the import process (so that the running background process doesn't impact the performance of using MC in other ways - which does seem to be the goal with v12), importing files over the network still involves transfering the files themselves over the network one at a time for analysis.... Which will impact network performance.
I certainly can't have MC deciding on it's own when it's going to bring my network to a crawl. Some of the files I use MC to manage are massive (particularly my source files for my video work -- 1 hour of DV-encoded video is about 12GB). On 11.1 scanning through a folder filled with 35 hours of new video we just recorded last week, stored on a network drive on the machine in our Auditorium, can take a VERY, VERY long time. As it is, I usually just wait until I'm about to go home (or won't be using the network for a long while) and then start the import.
This way means I basically just won't be able to use Otto at all, which is really quite a bummer! I didn't realize that the lovely new "Otto" interface (which I think is great BTW) meant you were going to remove the old Import Media under Tools!!
GHammer:
As far as I can see, there is a toggle for "Watch this folder" when you do a manual add.
glynor:
Right, but that would just add it to the "Otto List" which wouldn't help my problem...
Or was that not directed towards me?
jgreen:
The new Watch Folder (formerly known as otto) is really fast. I think it's a great improvement in speed and fuctionality, but why is the "check folder now" button buried so deep in options? "Add folder" is right there in tools, but wouldn't we want to check a folder more often than we add one?
scthom:
I agree with Glynor -- I almost always do a manual import. And once it's in, why have an auto import? For me, the best scenario is manual import only. With as few clicks as possible, of course.
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