Opening multiple folders

[roysmyth]

The current method of opening multiple folders into one contact sheet is slow and awkward. I keep my images in a hierarchical folder structure. To open all the images in all the folders contained within a parent folder I must double click the  first child folder and then control click each of the other child folders.

Could we have a single command to open a folder and all its subfolders?

[Kirk Baker]

The current method of opening multiple folders into one contact sheet is slow and awkward. I keep my images in a hierarchical folder structure. To open all the images in all the folders contained within a parent folder I must double click the  first child folder and then control click each of the other child folders.

Could we have a single command to open a folder and all its subfolders?

I plan to have a solution for that at some point.  It is potentially a very long operation.  For instance if you told PM to open all subfolders of a given folder, there could literally be hundreds of thousands of images all totaled in all of those subfolders.  This would not be a good thing.

So in order to do this I need to have a progress dialog to allow you to break out of the scanning process.  Due to the way the scanning code operates on the main thread of the application, this is not a trivial change to make.

-Kirk

[Rumboogy]

I second the motion that this would be a really useful feature.  I don't just use the program for incoming photos but I also like to use it to work with older photos.  It would be nice to be able to open a bunch of folders at once and work through each folder. 

[Kirk Baker]

I second the motion that this would be a really useful feature.  I don't just use the program for incoming photos but I also like to use it to work with older photos.  It would be nice to be able to open a bunch of folders at once and work through each folder. 

This thread is really old.  The feature was added in the 4.5 version.

-Kirk