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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: gummbah on June 24, 2008, 01:33:55 am
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I have my photos sorted on my harddrive in two folders like this:
c:\photos\backed up\Trip to Berlin (Jan2007)
c:\photos\backed up\Trip to New York (Mar2007)
etc
c:\photos\not backed up\Biking (Feb2008)
c:\photos\not backed up\Skiing (Jun2008)
etc
I really like that Picassa without any configuration sorts my photo's like this:
2008
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--> Skiing (Jun2008)
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--> Biking (Feb2008)
2007
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--> Trip to New York(Mar2007)
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--> Trip to Berlin (Jan2007)
So it sorts first by year, and then the path names chronologically (not full path, but only last dir name and starting with the newest)
Is there any way to replicate this in MC?
Thanks
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Create a new view scheme
Add 2 view items
- [Year]
- and a new expression called "Last Folder" (or whatever you want)
The "Last Folder" expression item should contain the following ...
ListItem([Filename (path)],ListCount(RemoveLeft([FileName (path)],3),\),\)
What this does is (working from the inside out)
1) removes the volume from the filepath i.e. "z:\Photos\Folder1\Description" yields "Photos\Folder1\Description" - we need to do this as listitem(listcount) returns the nth as opposed to the (n-1)th item in the list count (see next)
2) counts how many "list items" (i.e. folders) are left in the path. (it looks for items delimited by the "\" character)
3) returns the last of the items (the last folder) in the file path
It's kinda clunky as we can't use arithmetic to do listcount-1 (at least not that I know of). You'll also want to be careful with UNC based paths (e.g. \\server\share\path\to\photos\) as this will NOT work for that, but a simple conditional statement can be written to catch and accomodate that.
C.
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Create a new view scheme
Add 2 view items
- [Year]
- and a new expression called "Last Folder" (or whatever you want)
The "Last Folder" expression item should contain the following ...
ListItem([Filename (path)],ListCount(RemoveLeft([FileName (path)],3),\),\)
What this does is (working from the inside out)
1) removes the volume from the filepath i.e. "z:\Photos\Folder1\Description" yields "Photos\Folder1\Description" - we need to do this as listitem(listcount) returns the nth as opposed to the (n-1)th item in the list count (see next)
2) counts how many "list items" (i.e. folders) are left in the path. (it looks for items delimited by the "\" character)
3) returns the last of the items (the last folder) in the file path
It's kinda clunky as we can't use arithmetic to do listcount-1 (at least not that I know of). You'll also want to be careful with UNC based paths (e.g. \\server\share\path\to\photos\) as this will NOT work for that, but a simple conditional statement can be written to catch and accomodate that.
C.
Thanks! That's almost what I was looking for.
What is still different is that Picasa sorts the folders chronologically instead by name.
Is there anyway to accomplish that as well?
Cheers
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hmm, I cant try right now, but it might be possible using the sort field in the Edit View Scheme window I think.
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What is still different is that Picasa sorts the folders chronologically instead by
The problem here is MC has no concept of folders, all it has are files and their attributes.
The only attribute that might work is to sort by [Date Created]
A better solution might be to prefix your folders by numeric dates
instead of Jan 2007 use 01_2007 (say)
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The problem here is MC has no concept of folders, all it has are files and their attributes.
The only attribute that might work is to sort by [Date Created]
A better solution might be to prefix your folders by numeric dates
instead of Jan 2007 use 01_2007 (say)
I always name my image and video folders like:
2008-06-24 [Optional Album Description Here]
That way, they sort by date in all programs.
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Is it possible to do a group by([]) and on that use min(), avg(), max(), total count()?