[add on] File and Folder Management

[lanenubia]

Originally Posted by KeeterJ

burthold,

I have never posted anything in this thread only because your file/folder manager program works just as it should! I use it every day to manage my 7TB of recorded HD programs. I can't imagine leaving several hundred transport stream files in one folder, and really appreciate the way it simplifies organizing all the files by program name.

I guess SnapStream thinks we watch everything within a couple days of recording, then delete it all forever. I delete many shows, but save quite a bit of stuff as a library, and I want it organized. It seems to me like that should be an option in BTV.

Thank you for your program!

I agree. This program is just what I was looking for to manage the hundereds of files I have in my recorded video folder. I have a scheduled task set up to run daily at 430am to run this utility. I run it at that time so that its less likely to create folders for those temporary "deleteme" files.

And yes, over time you willl eventually end up with some empty folders for videos that have expired or have been deleted. To remedy that problem, I periodically run EmptyFolderNuker on that directory. It automatically finds and deletes empty folders. It can be found at --> http://simonwai.com/developments/empty_folder_nuker/

[Rich A]

My shows are all organised into various folders and have been for some time without any need for an additional application. Most of the things this program does can be done in BTV. (If I understand this correctly)

Here is what I have been doing for quite some time now.

My storage is drive D: That is only used for BTV show storage. I already have folders there setup like this for example:

D:\General Unsorted
D:\Sci Fi \General\Battlestar
........................\Atlantis
........................\Eureka
........................ etc. etc.
D:\Drama\CSI
.............\Cane
..............etc.
D:\Documentary
D:\Comedy
...............\Two & Half Men
................Several other shows ....
D:\Movies\
.............\Action Adventure
.............\Comedy
..............Etc. etc.

Everything goes where it is supposed to go. I believe within the last year SS added a new option in the guide context menu that makes this easy.

When you click on a program, after you've chosen to Record this show. while still on that show you can click it again. One of the new option available is "View and edit details". Simply click on that and you can (right there while still in the guide) edit any of the recording parameters. One of them is the "Record to:" which defaults to your default recording folder. So just click on that and you will be able to drill up or down the list of available folders.

When recording a show for the first time this takes all of 15 seconds to do right there while browsing the guide.

Now the ONLY thing missing that would make this BTV feature perfect would be to add to the "Record To:" options ... "Make New Folder".

So I'm at a loss to understand why we need file/folder management when BTV already does it?

Unless it is because doing it the SS way does require you to manually add any new folder outside of the BTV application.
Now that I think of it, that might be the case?

And that could be taken care of by SS adding "Create New Folder" to the Guide show options.

[lanenubia]

Originally Posted by Rich A

So I'm at a loss to understand why we need file/folder management when BTV already does it?

Unless it is because doing it the SS way does require you to manually add any new folder outside of the BTV application.
Now that I think of it, that might be the case?

That is the reason. I understand your point, but why manually create directories and have to explicitly specify a directory with each recording, when you can automate the whole process?

This utility successfully provides that automation.

[fsmith]

Not sure where to ask this.

Is there a way to make BTV automagicly scan the folders I have added new shows to?

It only does when I shutdown BTV and load it again.

(ie; I have added a shared folder from a networked computer to the btv settings, and I add new downloaded video podcast do the shared folder during the day.)

[jrandeck]

I used to use this regularly then stopped a while back. I'm trying again, but keep getting this error:

Line 0 (File "D:\Program Files\BTVTools\beyondtvfilemanager.exe"):

$arrFolderList[$i2]=_parsename($FileList[$i])
^ERROR

Error: Array variable has incorrect number of subscripts or subscript dimension range exceeded.


Maybe too many files?

[edit] I copied just a few files to a new folder and it still doesn't work on that drive. I also tried renaming the directories in the path so they are all 8 characters or less with no spaces and that didn't work either. It works on the C: drive, but not the G: drive.

[chaos.child]

Would it be possible for me to get a copy of the source for the program? I would like to do some tweaking for a difference directory structure and I'm way too lazy to have to start from scratch.

I promise to credit you on what I do.

..... if it is worth sharing. (though, I doubt it)

Thanks!

-Chris

[sranthony]

I'm getting the same error also on one of my drives about the subsrcipt range exceeded.

It does work find on my other drives.. I don't think this is an issue relating to the number of files, as the other drives have contain allot more files on them.

Great program tho..

It is much easier now to manage the Libraries.

[famewolf]

Originally Posted by sranthony

I'm getting the same error also on one of my drives about the subsrcipt range exceeded.

It does work find on my other drives.. I don't think this is an issue relating to the number of files, as the other drives have contain allot more files on them.

Great program tho..

It is much easier now to manage the Libraries.

I'm another who had the program running fine and is now getting the subscript error.