Automatically update a folder

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I collect a lot of images (around 400 per week) that get sorted into various subfolders within one big folder. I'd like to know if it's possible to create a folder (in that big folder) and have it display (and update automatically each time it's accesed) all images saved within that big folder and it's subfolders in the last week. I managed to create a search filter that does this but I'd like to be able to just go to a folder than run the search each time.

To clarify:
I have a folder, IMAGES, with sub directories SUB1, SUB2, SUB3, etc...
I'd like to have a folder in IMAGES that displays all pictures added to SUB1, SUB2, SUB3, etc within the last week and have it update each time I open the folder.

Is that possible? I hope I explained all that okay. Many thanks to anyone that might be able to help. :slight_smile:

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Opus doesn't let you do this on its own. (Maybe through integration with Google Desktop Search or Windows Desktop Search, but I don't know very much about either of them.)

In Opus the search results only get updated when you run the search. There's no background monitoring or indexing process which keeps searches updated.

If the search doesn't take long and it's just a question of being able to do the search and see the results in a single button click (rather than several clicks) then there may be a way to do that. Shout if that's the case.

I think someone else here was looking at scheduling the Opus Find command so that it ran automatically every X minutes, keeping the results updated. I don't know if that turned out to work well or not but it might be worth looking into.

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Thank you for the reply, nudel.

I tried to do this myself (and failed miserably), I'd love to hear if it's possible. Thanks again.:slight_smile:

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I looked into this a bit more and I think right now you'd have to live with some annoying dialogs popping up whenever the scheduled Find runs.

There's already a feature request to improve this, so maybe with the next version. At the moment I think it would be too annoying.

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I was just wondering, what with version 9 out, if there was any update on this? Right now, I have a button that pops up the advanced find dialog which I then just press enter on (since my custom find filter is already selected) and that pops up the results in a new lister. This is slightly annoying as I then have to close the find dialog and then close the new lister.

I don't mind the button but I would like to, if possible, change it so that either it just runs my custom search in the current lister automatically when the button is pressed (preferred) or when it pops up the advanced dialog and I press enter it closes the find dialog and displays the results in the current lister.

Thanks in advance for any help. :slight_smile:

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Ohh, I'm pretty close I think. Now I have pretty much what I want but it's displaying the results in a collection in a new lister, if I could change this to display them in the current lister (or just get the collection to show up in the current lister), it'd be perfect.

Here's what I have at the moment:

Find COLLNAME="New Pictures" NAME=newpictures FILTER IN="e:\pictures\" QUIET
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Have a look at the Find command's SHOWRESULTS argument.

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Doh, I can't believe I missed that! How simple. Thanks nudel, I've got set up perfectly now. :slight_smile:

Once last question concerning find results/collections, is it possible to have them display so that they're sorted by modified all the time? I can do this on normal folders by setting it up and then saving the view but for some reason this doesn't work on find results nor collections. It just defaults back to sorting by name.

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Edit the sort order in the Collections Default Format in Preferences - Folder Formats.

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Ah, thank you! :slight_smile: