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Title: NFO as Default File Type
Post by: glynor on May 03, 2018, 05:37:47 pm

I've been adding this file type manually for years, but each time I upgrade to a new major version of MC, it erases my changes and I get angry and have to do it again. I just discovered the same thing for MC24, so I'm going to ask...

Can you make NFO an available file type by default? They're text files. I like to import them so that I can auto-delete them via my automatic Junk File smartlist tool, but it doesn't work if they don't import.

Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: NFO as Default File Type
Post by: JimH on May 03, 2018, 05:47:32 pm

Yes.  Feel free to remind us.

Title: Re: NFO as Default File Type
Post by: Matt on May 04, 2018, 11:20:17 am

So NFO is just a text file and should be added as next to this entry in file assocations:
Text Files (txt,rtf,log)

Thanks.

Title: Re: NFO as Default File Type
Post by: glynor on May 07, 2018, 10:04:40 am

Sorry. I didn't have notifications turned on for this thread, apparently.

In mine I've been using for eons:

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<Data>Text Files (txt,rtf,log,nfo)</Data>
<MimeAssociations>
     <Data>
          <Item Name="nfo">text/plain</Item>
     </Data>
</MimeAssociations>

Title: Re: NFO as Default File Type
Post by: Matt on May 07, 2018, 10:07:19 am

Thanks Glynor.

We'll have this in the next build.

Title: Re: NFO as Default File Type
Post by: glynor on May 07, 2018, 11:13:18 am

Thank you, Matt!

If anyone is curious about how I'm doing this, I have a "Junk File Remover" smartlist:

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([File Type]=[nfo] or [Filename]=".unwanted" or ([File Type]=[txt] [Filename]="RARBG") or ([File Type]=[txt] [Filename]="Downloaded") or ([File Type]=[url] [Filename]="M:\Incoming") or ([File Type]=[sfv] [Filename]="M:\Incoming") or ([Media Type]=[Image] [Filename]="screenshot" [Filename]="M:\Incoming")) ~sort=[Date Imported]-d
Then, I have a job in the Windows Task Scheduler which runs MCFileRemover.exe once per week, pointed it at that smartlist. This is a little utility I made that can remove files from MC's Library (optionally deleting the files from disk, along with sidecar files), so that you can automate deleting of junk files, and also do cool things like "expire" content.

More info on that tool:
https://blog.glynor.com/mcfileremover

Title: Re: NFO as Default File Type
Post by: astromo on May 07, 2018, 03:19:10 pm

Nice tip. Handy stuff.