Creating extra folders during ingest

[TiredRob]

Hi,

I'd love for PM to be able to automatically create extra folders during an ingest... I used to use a different downloader (years and years ago) that you could set to do this - and it was really helpful.

For every job I do, I routinely create extra folders for;

Deleted images
Social media copies
Sneak peek copies

It would be great if I could set these in the ingest settings, and save them with my preset, so I don't have to do it manually for every job. :-)

Cheers,

Rob

[ahoward]

I assume these are subfolders of the folder you are Ingesting to? In which case, both the Copy/Move and Save Photos as windows have the ability to save the items to a subfolder of the current location of the images, and if that folder doesn't exist yet, it will create it. On the contact sheet, select the images you are trying to move to the subfolder. Click on "Copy/Moves Photos" from the file menu. Choose "Create Subfolder" and type in the name of the folder that you would want to create or move to. Then, make a snapshot: https://docs.camerabits.com/support/solutions/articles/48001142336-snapshots

Once you have created the snapshot, moving the images to these folders is a matter of opening the Copy/Move window and selecting the correct snapshot, no need to ever manually create these subfolders. Would that accomplish what you are trying to do?

[muhammad@milestonesfoto.c]

Yes, but it is not Automatic. For those using a PM CO workflow it would be easier to connect the session files if those photos were already there.

[Max Lemesh]

that would be a great feature. I understand that currently folders are created only if something is copied into them, so creating empty folders is not really possible. So having an option to automatically create a folder structure from preset would be awesome. but would probably require a bit of extra windows and settings to make it work

[Maury-Support]

Adding to what ahoward mentioned, you can designate a specific color class or star rating to an image to later sort the image into a subfolder based on the color class or star rating.

You could use the {colorclass} or {numstars} variable inside a Code Replacement (https://docs.camerabits.com/support/solutions/articles/48000223660-introduction-to-code-replacements-in-photo-mechanic).

For example, in a code replacement file, you could have:

Note: use the Color Class Label names assigned in Photo Mechanic's Settings-->General-->Color Classes section.

Red[tab key]Deleted images
Yellow[tab key]Social Media Copies
Green[tab key]Sneak peak copies

in the text box for the "Create subfolder:" destination option, you can input:
 ={colorclass}=

Or for star ratings:
Folder1[tab key]Deleted images
Folder2[tab key]Social Media Copies
Folder3[tab key]Sneak peak copies

Then use =Folder{numstars}= in the "Create subfolder:" text box in the Copy Options window.

As the copy operation is occurring, Photo Mechanic will evaluate the assigned color class from the variable, then run the code replacement which will replace the Color Class Label name with the folder name from the code replacement file. Once the subfolders are created, Photo Mechanic will continue to sort the images with the associated color class into the respective subfolder.

As ahoward said, you can save a Snapshot of the settings.