I have four separate folders on four drives that I access on a daily basis. I would like to have these folders set up as a File Collection. The problem is I add and delete files from these folders on a daily basis. The newly added files are not shown in the File Collection. Is there something glaringly obvious I have missed?
Hi Rex,
File collections are archived in text files in the Collections directory of your Directory Opus directory.
The data archived of a Folder in a collection is just that, a reference to that Folder.
Nothing more, just that Folder.
When one double-clicks a Folder in a collection,
the actual folder is displayed in the lister, not a sub-directory of a collection.
The data archived of Files in a collection is the same.
Each file is archived in the text file.
So, if your collection consists of four folders, adding or deleting from them has no effect at all to the collection.
The collection was always only a reference to those folders, not the files and folders they contain.
Any changes to these Folders are a double-click away.
However if your collection was the contents of these four folders,
files later added to the folder are not part of the collection.
However, deleted files of the folder are no longer part of your collection.
Does that help?
Regards,
Zippo
Pretty much tells me what I had confirmed.
File collections are static and not dynamic.
By static I mean they don't reflect changes (additions to the folders).
You can create a File Collection where the folders you wish monitor are subfolders of the file collection. In other words: you are not adding the contents of the folders, you are adding the folders themselves to the collection. You can't see all the contents of all of your folders at once, but it is dynamic. When you, open up the file collection and look inside each subfolder, it will display dynamic contents.
I use this every time I want to pack up work files to my Rev drive to go go work at another location.
[quote="kenalcock"]You can create a File Collection where the folders you wish monitor are subfolders of the file collection. In other words: you are not adding the contents of the folders, you are adding the folders themselves to the collection. You can't see all the contents of all of your folders at once, but it is dynamic. When you, open up the file collection and look inside each subfolder, it will display dynamic contents.
I use this every time I want to pack up work files to my Rev drive to go go work at another location.[/quote]
That will work. But it's no better than having a dedicated Go button for each folder. I'm trying to avoid having to search though four different folders to find the files I'm looking for. I was hoping the a File Collection would work. But I add and delete too many files from those folders for it to be of any use at all.