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    JeffSalzberg
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Feature Requests -- Browsing Folders & Copying Cues

I'm hoping that future releases will allow easier browsing to folders other than the show archive when opening and saving. When using Nomad as the offline editor, I'm often working on several different shows in the course of a single day, and I greatly prefer to keep my Ion file in the same folder as the other data for that show.

I'd also like to see the "minus" key work when copying cues, so that:

[Cue] 101 [CopyTo] [Cue] 103 [-] [Label]

would copy all attributes except the label (or whichever attribute(s) the user chooses not to copy).

  • i think i had the same file>open challenge like you today.

    i was going back and forth between two showfiles. when we say that moving (windows explorer) the two showfiles into the same directory isn't an option, this can get quite time consuming depending on your folder structure.

    maybe showfiles could be "starred" (as in favorites) and those would additionally to their actual location be also shown in a virtual favs folder?

    or we could have two nomads open at the same time? offline of course... (i guess this is the more difficult solution for the developers. sorry ;) )
  • in reply to ueliriegg

    I'd settle for using the standard Windows or Mac file dialogues, so shortcuts would work, although I'm guessing that might present problems, too.

  • in reply to JeffSalzberg
    +1 or maybe 1,000,000 to using standard dialogs. Don't reinvent the wheel!

    At least stick with something that looks and mostly acts the same. In virtually every training I've ever done, the file management commands have been an issue.

  • A workaround I use is to "share" the show archive folder and then map that share to a drive in the file explorer.  Eos sees the mapped drive and lets you access it. Unfortunately Eos doesn't show the name of the share, so you need to remember which is which.  If all your shows are in sub-directories of one directory, you can share the parent directory instead.

    -Rick

     

    The details (for Windows10, older versions are similar):

    • Navigate to the show archive folder in file explorer
    • Right-click on the folder and select "share with" "specific people"
    • Add your user name in the popup and click "Add"
    • Click "share" to exit and save
      • in the window that pops up, note the name of the share.  It looks like: \\compname\folder

    ==== next ====

    • Click on the "Home" page of file explorer
    • Select the "Easy access" dropdown "Map as drive"
    • In the popup, pick a drive letter --  "X" for example
    • In the Folder box, type the name of the share you noted earlier:  e.g.  \\computername\folder
    • click "Finish"

    in the Eos dialogs you will see a new item, "Windows (X:\)"  -- the "X" is the drive you chose earlier

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