[add on] File and Folder Management

[SSDNAdmin]

Author: burthold

Short Description: place files in show folders
Long Description: This is a little program I use to organize my shows into folders for those shows. The file name is parsed from that a show folder is created and the shows are moved into that sub folder. Run from the command line [any directory]beyondtvfilemanager.exe [your shows folder] or from a short cut with [any directory]beyondtvfilemanager.exe [your shows folder] in the target field
Version Number: 1.0


Status: active
Last Updated: 10/18/2006
Homepage:
Installation Instructions: Just copy to the file system and create a short cut with C:\beyondtvfilemanager.exe g:\shows in the target.
Release Notes: This parses the file name to create the right folder and then move the show to that folder.
License: GPL
Requirements: NA


Download beyondtvfilemanager.exe
Download beyondtvfilemanager.au3

[Randyre]

This works great, just what I've been waiting for. I've tried it and it works great, the only problem is if there is nothing for it to move it posts an error, so makes it messy to shedule it in a batch file.

Other than that its great.

[nrf]

another suggestion, could it not find the folders via the btv API? I have two on different drives!

[dubbedout]

This is an awesome program, good to keep things organized. How do you guys run it though? I ran it from the command line once, and would like to set it up to run after each new recording, but I dont believe thats its possible. So should I just run it as a nightly task to clean everything up?

[burthold]

from the command line you pass in the path you want to clean up.

since autoIT can't run as a service I'm thinking of rewriting this in realbasic instead. I haven't looked at the snapstream API's at all I just hammered this thing out becasue I have a single machine with 6TB of disk space and 7 tuners I run it once a day right now but I'd be more than happy to make any changes to it you guys would like.

Wes

[Randyre]

Right now I would just be happy if it would not return the error when the directory to move from is empty.

The next thing that would be nice is if I could run something like this to automatically knock the date off the end of the file before BTV starts to work on it (showsqeeze etc.) so it would be a little more clean when looking at trhe filenames. I could just reanme them myself, but when I do that I've been told that BTV loses track of it and it will then re-record it.

Randy

Originally Posted by burthold

from the command line you pass in the path you want to clean up.

since autoIT can't run as a service I'm thinking of rewriting this in realbasic instead. I haven't looked at the snapstream API's at all I just hammered this thing out becasue I have a single machine with 6TB of disk space and 7 tuners I run it once a day right now but I'd be more than happy to make any changes to it you guys would like.

Wes

[joeags]

I haven't run into the error yet, but like Randy says, I'd like to run this as a scheduled activity, so getting rid of the error would be helpful. I run a batch file on it as is, and find this very handy! Thanks!

[Randyre]

Any updates to this yet? Or has anyone figured out how to get it to run after a file is showsqueezed?

R-

[Randyre]

Any updates or more info?

Originally Posted by Randyre

Any updates to this yet? Or has anyone figured out how to get it to run after a file is showsqueezed?

R-

[Darktan]

I've done some scripting work in the past. It should be a fairly easy task to create a gui for some preferences to be written to an ini and then set it to either run manually or silently. Then you can just schedule the exe to run say every 2 hours (whatever your preference. Heck that can be part of the preference gui). If I ever have some free time, I'll look into it.

Peace

[Washy]

Thanks for your time creating such a useful addon. Much appreciated!

S.

[Joey Bugeyes]

This is kind of cool and its got me thinking of how I can use it. I'm just wondering though, why is this better than sorting by series? BTV already does that.
Also, once the folder is created, and then the shows are deleted via BTV, then doesn't the folder still stay? Wouldn't that mislead you in thinking that you have shows when you don't?

Hey, I'm not asking to criticize. I actually like the idea. I'm just trying figure out if this is something I can use.

By the way, do a search here for Snapstreams Postprocessor. With the postprocessor, you can set this up to run after every recording automatically. No need to write a script or schudule a task.

- Joey Bugeyes

[burthold]

I wrote it to help me manage files outside of btv. I've never been a fan of the auto expire feature and I play the files or manipulate them outside of btv in otherways.

I can clean up the error handling no problem. Since I wrote this thing I've done a ton of stuff in C# and think I may rework it under C# add a little configurator gui and the like.

I'll take a peek at the postprocessor task as well.

Cheers,
Wes

[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!

[burthold]

Thanks for the complement, I'm glad people like yourself find it useful!