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Ability to find new file location for specific movies

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rick.ca:

--- Quote ---Sure, it'd be wonderful if my filenames matched what the application and its author deemed to be the "proper" naming convention.  But doesn't it make sense to have a user interface which accommodates the user, rather than the user having to rename all his files and/or modify the regex to accommodate the software?
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Of course. And this is exactly what you've been provided with. The author has only made assumptions about file naming conventions in order to provide a default scanner configuration that works with something. He cannot know what your file naming convention is. If you use one the default regex can't handle, it's your responsibility and choice to either change your file names or revise the scanner configuration so it works. It's not difficult to do—one or the other. The only thing it can't handle is the absence of any regex-discernible pattern in the file names.


--- Quote ---Yes, it works -- as does the sledgehammer killing the mosquito...
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This is not a valid characterization. As I stated before, you have a choice to set the path "manually" or use the scanner. You don't have to direct the scanner to scan your entire HDD or all video paths. You can direct it to scan whatever folders you want. It will then scan all the files in that location—very quickly—and find all the paths that have changed.


--- Quote ---Because the other thing is, it doesn't seem to me like this would be a horribly difficult thing to implement.
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I'm sure it wouldn't. It's just a bad idea. It's only purpose to accommodate a refusal to use the program in the way it was designed. Adding such "features" just confuses the matter more. Users naturally assume there's a reason for a feature. So the existence of such things steer users away from the recommended way of using the program, thereby making it more difficult to understand, learn and use.

Please don't think I don't respect your right to use the program in any way you like, and make any suggestion you please. I commented first to help with something important you were apparently missing. But if you choose to ignore my advice, I really don't care. But there's another reason I comment on such things—to correct the false impression they likely create for other readers who may not know better. So, for example, when you say...


--- Quote ---In my experience, scanning folders comes with inherent issues (such as occasional duplication of titles).
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...I think it's important others understand this experience is a result of your own choices, not any deficiency in the design of the program.

Data1001:

--- Quote ---It's just a bad idea. It's only purpose to accommodate a refusal to use the program in the way it was designed. Adding such "features" just confuses the matter more. Users naturally assume there's a reason for a feature. So the existence of such things steer users away from the recommended way of using the program, thereby making it more difficult to understand, learn and use.
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You seem to be assuming that I'm acting stubbornly because I have suggested something that, in my opinion, will make my workflow more efficient -- and because I want to see if there's a better and easier way of doing things. You also seem to be assuming a lot about other users, and whether they'd find such an idea more confusing or less confusing, I think. To you, it may sound like useless clutter. To me, it sounds like more simplicity. It's not that I'm "ignoring your advice", but your suggestions simply did not seem to me to be as elegant a solution as the one I was envisioning. It's your right to call my ideas bad, but that's your opinion. I just don't see that what you've suggested are better options than my proposal. Certainly, what you've suggested is the only current way of doing things, and so that's what I've been doing, and likely will need to continue doing for the life of the program.

Nonetheless, I don't think we're getting anywhere with this conversation, so I'm going to bow out before this just cycles further into something unproductive and nasty. But feel free to grab the last word, if you want it -- and something tells me that you do.  ;)

::shrug:: Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

Anyway, I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts on the matter, and that you always have shown an excellent grasp of the program whenever I have questions about something. Cheers.

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