2011-08-09, 03:08
I'm after a tool that can go through a few thousand folders, which are named "Movie Name (year)" and create an empty file within that folder, name exactly the same with a media extension (either avi or mkv).
I have seen other tools that do similar things like creating folders, or files that are dummy avi (which say insert disc etc), but cannot find one for this purpose.
The reason why if anyone is interested, not required reading:
I use 5*2TB drives for my media, and use a USB3.0 HDD dock for moving movies (1080p mkv) to offline 2TB drives, once watched or not expected to be re-watched right away. Otherwise my internal drives fill up quick.
I don't want these movies in my library, only a file view, so I have a non-library multi-path source "offline" that has both a docked drive (all drives have the same "offlinehdd" share name), and another folder ("offline" share name) of the nfo/fanart etc media (everything but the actual video file). What I do is move all the folders of the movies I want to take offline to the "offline" share, then copy them to the "offlinehdd" share of the docked drive, then just remove all the .mkv files from the "offine" share.
This keeps my library clean (just my favourite movies, and ones I have yet to watch - I didn't like having thousands in the library), but still lets me access a list of offline movies. Once I pop in the appropriate offline drive in the dock I can play the movie from the same play as it's a multi-path source.
This works all well and good as is, but in order to retain the offline movies in ember media manager (just to be able to see the media info for purposes of re-downloading a higher quality, or directors cut etc version), and to be able to do an "info" from the offline list, there needs to be a dummy video file in there.
Sorry for the long post. Perhaps my method can be criticized. It works well for me and takes almost no time and no additional tools.
I have seen other tools that do similar things like creating folders, or files that are dummy avi (which say insert disc etc), but cannot find one for this purpose.
The reason why if anyone is interested, not required reading:
I use 5*2TB drives for my media, and use a USB3.0 HDD dock for moving movies (1080p mkv) to offline 2TB drives, once watched or not expected to be re-watched right away. Otherwise my internal drives fill up quick.
I don't want these movies in my library, only a file view, so I have a non-library multi-path source "offline" that has both a docked drive (all drives have the same "offlinehdd" share name), and another folder ("offline" share name) of the nfo/fanart etc media (everything but the actual video file). What I do is move all the folders of the movies I want to take offline to the "offline" share, then copy them to the "offlinehdd" share of the docked drive, then just remove all the .mkv files from the "offine" share.
This keeps my library clean (just my favourite movies, and ones I have yet to watch - I didn't like having thousands in the library), but still lets me access a list of offline movies. Once I pop in the appropriate offline drive in the dock I can play the movie from the same play as it's a multi-path source.
This works all well and good as is, but in order to retain the offline movies in ember media manager (just to be able to see the media info for purposes of re-downloading a higher quality, or directors cut etc version), and to be able to do an "info" from the offline list, there needs to be a dummy video file in there.
Sorry for the long post. Perhaps my method can be criticized. It works well for me and takes almost no time and no additional tools.