How do I blacklist a folder from having its properties read, WITHOUT having to index the rest?

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nmkd
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How do I blacklist a folder from having its properties read, WITHOUT having to index the rest?

Post by nmkd »

My current setup:
Total Bit Rate and Dimensions enabled, but not indexed. So they are read each time I do a search.
I want to keep them non-indexed as I have a ton of media files that would make a full rescan take ages.

The problem is that I want to exclude certain folders (slow drives, network locations, etc) from having their properties read.
Adding them to Indexes -> Properties and excluding them there causes ALL the other locations to be indexed.

Is it possible to exclude locations from real-time property reading?
void
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Re: How do I blacklist a folder from having its properties read, WITHOUT having to index the rest?

Post by void »

Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> property_cache_exclude_folders

Set to a semicolon (;) delimited list of folders to exclude when gathering properties.


-or-


Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> property_cache_include_only_folders

Set to a semicolon (;) delimited list of folders to include only when gathering properties.
Leave empty to include all folders.


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Exclude folders from your search, for example:

!"d:\folder\I\don't\want\" !"e:\another\folder\I\don't\want\" !"f:\folder3\etc...\"

! = NOT


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Specify the 'fast' folders in your search:

"c:\local\folder\" | "j:\another\local\path\" | "h:\etc...\"

| = OR
nmkd
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Re: How do I blacklist a folder from having its properties read, WITHOUT having to index the rest?

Post by nmkd »

Big thanks, works exactly the way I needed it.
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