Ticket #241 (new Enhancement)

Opened 2 months ago

Last modified 3 weeks ago

[Feature Request] List of unimported files

Reported by: p.witty@gmail.com Assigned to:
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: Other Version: 1.0b6.4
Keywords: Cc:

Description

I think it would be incredibly useful to be able to attain a list of unimported media files. Ideally this list would be written to ~/Documents or somewhere like that. It would be written upon completion of any full import.

Often I found that various words could keep a file from being properly recognized (often these are movies I backed up using Gordian Knot, from back when it would append "ForceFilm?" to the end of your filename). This was causing many of my movies to not be found in IMDB. It is sometimes hard to remember which files I need to rename after an import, so I end up writing them down during imports on (gasp) a piece of paper.

Please take me into the 21st century! Record this list automatically. :)

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10/02/08 09:27:19 changed by wazza

Would the Console be better? Certainly simpler in terms of implementation.

10/04/08 02:15:23 changed by p.witty@gmail.com

"Would the Console be better?" I'm not sure what you mean. As long as I could attain a list of files that didn't get imported, I'd be happy.

10/04/08 12:17:56 changed by wazza

I meant would logging the list of unimported files to the console log be a better option, rather than writing out to a file? This Console app can be used to browse the list.

10/21/08 22:47:49 changed by p.witty@gmail.com

wazza: that sounds good, though I'm unsure of what you mean when you say "This Console app"... which console app, exactly, are you referring to? Anyway, if it was written to the console log, I'm sure it would be fine, because that exists somewhere on the machine, so I could find it and open it in nano or something (if nothing else).

Yeah, I really don't care where it would be written or even if it would just be displayed on the screen after import (though writing it to a log or file would be better). Just so that I can see/access/browse/read this list of movie files that were not imported. That would be so freakin awesome.

also: do you help with the development of this app? Would you be implementing this feature?

10/22/08 03:17:38 changed by wazza

Sorry, that should have been "The Console app", which is in the Utilities folder in Applications. It's a graphical interface that displays various log files on the system.

I suggested writing output there as it is easier to find than having to remember where a certain log file was written to and keeps things neat.

Having said that I was only thinking Mac-wise, not ATV, so my suggestion probably isn't sensible because Console can't show you logs on other machines.

I'm not a member of the Sapphire team, I occasionally supply patches to bugs I find or enhancements I think would be useful. I'm still learning the ins and outs of Sapphire, so it's best I have no responsibility here otherwise Sapphire would have more bugs than an anthill :-)

10/25/08 13:31:20 changed by p.witty@gmail.com

Don't sell yourself short -- I saw that you implemented the aka functionalit (ticket #41)... :) Just was reading that ticket now. I wish I knew the syntax and semantics for Cocoa... I'm only familiar with Java and C++ type syntax. And I'm learning Python too but that's pretty easy...

Honestly, writing to the console log would probably be fine. In the bugreporting guides here, it says where the console log is on AppleTV (/Library/Logs/Console/501/console.log), and you can tail it or open it in nano or copy it to your mac and view it with Console.app.

I wonder if the illustrious gbooker has even read this ticket? It hasn't been assigned to anyone or set to a release yet...

10/27/08 05:01:37 changed by wazza

Why not check out the code and have a go at adding the functionality yourself? Objective-C is not that different from any other C-like OO language such as Java or C++.

10/30/08 13:47:53 changed by p.witty@gmail.com

I actually do intend to try -- though I don't expect to succeed. ;)

Xcode does look freakin awesome, so I look forward to giving it a spin. Unfortunately, I won't be able to really dig into the code for another couple weeks -- I have two websites I need to complete plus a big project at work.

Add/Change #241 ([Feature Request] List of unimported files)