Videos- Combined Folder View

[skyeclad]

Hey Community, I was wondering if someone could confirm if what I'm seeing is a bug or how it's designed to work. I'm trying to make the folder view with it's ability to combine like folder names together work the same as the SageMC Groups view. So anyhow, here is how Sage 7 seems to handle this functionality. It seems like a bug to me and I submitted it but I think Sage lets their beta support team go home for the weekend. Nice guy that Narflex!

I have 2 imported folders both called Video.

I:\Video

has a subfolder called DVD

and

P:\Video

has a subfolder called DVD as well.

Now when using the combined view, DVD shows up once and the videos from both directories show up in the single directory. That's what I hoped for and it seems to work now.

However, P:\Video also has other unique folders with no duplication found in I:\Video. Those folders don't show up at all. Instead Sage displays all the videos within those folders in one long list, sorted in an odd fashion.

Now, I don't know if this is the intended way for this to work. However, I though that selecting a folder view with the combined folders option, Sage would combine folders with the same name BUT display unique folders as well, with their respective videos inside them.

You see, with the way it works now, only folders that are combined are organized in folders while the contents of the others get dumped out in a disorganized fashion. It's weird but I see the contents sorted A to Z, then A to Z again for another subfolder but it's just one long list not nested within the subfolder where the videos are located. Does this make sense?

[JustinWI]

I have the same weird sorting in the beta as well (default UI now, was previously using SageMC and SMW).
I have a mix of "Titles" and "DVD/BD". I don't want to use the folder view (since it won't show the metadata on the right pane), but it is the only way for me to see all of my movies. It seems to sort the folders first (A-Z) and then it appends the videos (sorted A-Z).

Very odd and hoping to get something figured out before the wife sees...

[edit]
So a wrote a quick script to move my avi's and mkv's to the root "Video" folder, leaving the DVDs in their individual folders. My sorting now appears to be working correctly. I will save off my script and move the files back to folders once the My Movies Plugin is out (if needed)

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by skyeclad

I though that selecting a folder view with the combined folders option, Sage would combine folders with the same name BUT display unique folders as well, with their respective videos inside them.

It does.

Did you previously use one of the customizations to set metadata for the imported files? If so, it sounds like the known issue where the customization wrote over the path offset info when it wrote the video's title data. If this is the case, and you aren't yet using v7.0.10, try that version.


BTW: please post the beta version in use. If it isn't the most recent beta version available, always try updating first.

- Andy

[skyeclad]

Originally Posted by Opus4

It does.

Did you previously use one of the customizations to set metadata for the imported files? If so, it sounds like the known issue where the customization wrote over the path offset info when it wrote the video's title data. If this is the case, and you aren't yet using v7.0.10, try that version.


BTW: please post the beta version in use. If it isn't the most recent beta version available, always try updating first.

- Andy

Andy,

I am using the latest beta 7.0.10 and the issue was present in the previous beta as well. I have been using Phoenix for fanart. I don't know if I've used something that overwrote the metadata. Should I try to rescan and reimport all the imported videos? Would that help?

Edit:Actually a rescan does appear to be working, I have new directories showing up. OT, BR ISO's are playing very choppy. Guess I'll look for a thread about that. Thanks all.