In the dropdown, I selected Filename(path) and changed the middle box to "Contains" and the right box I entered the Folder name (i.e. Kids Movies). You might not even need to change the middle box, but that's what I did.A year or so ago somebody informed me that view scheme rules that depend on file names or file paths are slower than those that use normal database tags. I noticed a difference on my older system.
I know you work to get Carnac to work for most users, and I support you in that. It's good to have a basis that works for many. But I'm afraid the idea of controlling library fields data on automatic import never will pass.Yeah, I'm really hoping that once the fully automatic method is working well, they'll add support for manual rules (similar to confishy's Autotagger). Anyway, I'll stop here so as to not delve too far off topic...
A simple way to tag your files would be to select a view that shows all video files and search for, for example, Kids. Then select all the resulting files (ctrl-a) and change the genre to Kids. Repeat for other types.
If the files are tagged, it won't matter where they are stored.
Let me see if I have your question right...
Say I import a folder called Anime that resides on the R:\ drive
Are you implying the the import could automatically set certain fields in the database to the folder name? i.e. importing R:\Anime would populate (in your example) the database entry for Genre to 'Anime' and the subtype to 'Movie'? Did I read that correctly?
If that were the case, would it make sense to add a Db entry for 'Location' (or File Directory or something like that) and then sort by that? Or would that be too similar to Filename(path) and counterproductive?
Would it help if you could set a few tags at import time for each folder?
For example, configure it so that G:\Kids Movies\ set the genre to 'Kids Movies' and media subtype to 'Movie'?
This is a feature we've been considering adding for a while.
I mean you could make a list of tags to apply for each import folder. For each tag in the list, you'd pick a field and type a value. The values could be the same as part of the path, or they could be totally different (ie. Keyword = "I need to clean this file up").
I mean you could make a list of tags to apply for each import folder. For each tag in the list, you'd pick a field and type a value.