Advanced Subfolder Sort

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Advanced Subfolder Sort Mon Nov 29, 2021 7:25 pm • by anotherspot
Hi Hazel Brains Trust.

I am wondering if anyone has worked out a way to solve this.

Currently have multiple folders watched which sort tv episodes into subfolders with a pattern of

•Show -> • Season

This works great because all the data is able to be obtained from the file name / metadata.
I want to go up one level which I think requires a new script option

• Category (Search for Shows in subfolders) -> • Show -> • Season

The idea for category is to search and see if the show exists in a number of folders if not default to the normal folder.

Categories would be TV Children's Shows, TV Family Shows, etc

This allows a show to be manually assigned once and future episodes would end up in the same place.
Any suggestions appreciated
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Re: Advanced Subfolder Sort Wed Dec 01, 2021 10:01 am • by Mr_Noodle
I don't think there's a good way to do that. Only thing I can think of is to maintain a table with the show name and category and use the table feature to sort using that.
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Re: Advanced Subfolder Sort Mon Dec 06, 2021 10:04 am • by smm
anotherspot wrote:Categories would be TV Children's Shows, TV Family Shows, etc

This allows a show to be manually assigned once and future episodes would end up in the same place.
Any suggestions appreciated


If Mac OS, what about assigning labels for the category instead of a folder? You can assign multiple category labels to a single show, which may be desirable or an unintended side effect.
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