Suggestion: Allow adding more than one image folder in advanced mode

[wechsler42]

Hi there,
at the moment I can add one image folder in the simplified mode as well as in the advanced mode.
Although the behavior in the simplified mode is fine for me I could imagine that in the advanced mode the entry of more than one image folder would be nice. At the moment I use symbolic links to circumvent this restriction.

[bpatrik]

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion. At the moment I'm not considering such feature. I find the symbolic link solution good enough.
Furthermore, It would also require a major refactor as the app heavily builds on having just a single entry folder.
I'll leave this suggestion open here. If you get some thumbs up on it, I'll consider implementing it.

Best,
Patrik

[sonofdbn]

Hello,
I think that when using a docker container the symlinks are not recognised, so in this case there's no easy solution. I found that when there are symlinks as well as pictures in the Image folder, the indexing fails.

Like the OP I'd also like to be able to have multiple image folders. I have photos in folders by year and then within each year there are folders by date and event, but I don't necessarily want to have everything in the gallery. Currently it seems that once I select an Image folder, everything goes into the gallery.

For your consideration.

[bpatrik]

There are 2 solutions for this now:

• there is now an ignore settings. See Suggestion: Hide irrelevant subfolders #87.
• Or for docker, you can have an data\image folder in the running container and you attach multiple volumes to it, like -v \images1:data\image\img1 -v \images2:data\image\img2

I hope it helps.

[bpatrik]

Closing this due to inactivity. Feel free to reopen if you think otherwise.