Limit Events to one image repository

[orichardt]

The Events feature is very good and it really makes a difference for me to have this. Thank you for including this feature.

As I have several folders with copies of the same images e.g. one with no folder structure and one with the same pictures based on a year/month/date structure.
(Reason is that one folder with 50K pictures are a pain to work with in windows but much better in a program like iMatch. Sometimes I have to work in windows, though)

Proposal:
It would be very helpful if there was a possibility to create the events based on a folder (or folder sub-structure) so one does not get all the copies that will exist or have to make sure you select the ones from this specific structure when creating the event timeline.

So:
Being able to pick the location of the files on which to base the event timeline on. E.g. events from business pictures, events from family pictures etc.

[Mario]

I'm not sure I understand.
You can create events from folders (right-click the folder > Create events from all selected folders...) and you can choose whether or not to include files in sub-folders. And there is a possibility to filter for certain files.

I understand that you have, below the same "root" folder the same images multiple times.
And that you request a new filter for events that filters out duplicate files within the same folder structure.
I doubt that many, if at all, users have this particular folder structure. Having duplicate files is IMHO never a good idea.

Instead you should maybe consider using IMatch categories. Images can be in any number of categories without duplicating them physically on disk.

[orichardt]

Hi Mario, thank you for your reply.

apologies for not being clear. This pertains to the function "create a new event/based on date ranges".
This will find all the files that correspond to the date range.

Now if you have created a database with several folder structures, e.g work and private, then it would be good to be able to restrict the finding of pictures to a specific folder structure, so you dont get an event created, including both work and private pictures :-)

So if it was possible to enter a file path also when you create the event based on dates, then it would limit the work you need to do "cleaning up unwanted pics".

Hope this makes more sense :-)

[Mario]

I understand.
Let's see how many users share this problem and give this feature request a Like.