🖼️📂 Limit Photos to a single folder + subtree #141

dermalikmann · 2020-01-20T15:29:24Z

I think it would be really nice to create an option where the user can select a single folder (like /Photos) and the app only scans this folder and its subfolders.

I have tons and tons of images all over my nextcloud, but only in /Photos are my, well, photos. And it's kind of a tedious task to create always a .nomedia file in all other directories.

Add Support to additional folders by changing reworking "Choose another folder" to "Add folder" #2343

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skjnldsv · 2020-01-21T09:13:27Z

@jancborchardt ?

jancborchardt · 2020-01-23T11:23:47Z

Yes, @Mikescops and I briefly talked about this at the Contributor Week as well. What we could go for:

We look for a "Photos" or "Pictures" folder in the root. If it exists, we take that.
We should also account for translations, ideally following the xdg-user-dirs translations.
If no such folder exists, we fall back to root.
We show a settings area in the bottom left with:

Showing files from Photos
and a button: ( Change folder )

That way it’s an automatic setup process but can still be adjusted later.

skjnldsv · 2020-01-23T12:15:47Z

I would say it doesn't cover my needs. I have multiple folders with pictures that I want to be shown. Android is using all available photos, no idea for other galleries. Could be nice to check what users expect before pushing such drastic changes :)

Also, just having a setting to include/exclude some folders is probably the easiest/most universal way to do? 🤷‍♀️

Mikescops · 2020-01-23T14:08:07Z

@skjnldsv the point of @jancborchardt during our discussion was to have the most easy and transparent way to have the folder setups. I agree include/exclude would be the prefered way (as it is done on the sync for desktop client) but Jan thought choosing a single folder and having a per default on the Photos folder is the easiest way.

skjnldsv · 2020-01-23T15:42:29Z

Defaut is indeed always preferable, I'm not arguing this part.
But a default automated config needs to be relevant. I'm not sure this is relevant to use a default Pictures or Photos folder.
Even our Nextcloud client have the default autoupload set to the InstantUpload folder, so we would not be compliant to our android setup :)

Mikescops · 2020-01-24T09:10:29Z

Let's take root folder but provide an option asap to restrict it to a given folder

bendschs · 2020-03-13T16:12:58Z

does .noimage apply to a folder and all subfolders or just the folder itself?

skjnldsv · 2020-03-18T20:11:06Z

does .noimage apply to a folder and all subfolders or just the folder itself?

folder and subfolders :)

bendschs · 2020-03-19T00:31:38Z

ok, in that case it simply does not work for me ... latest stable release of nextcloud 18

strugee · 2020-03-19T01:15:54Z

@bendschs please file a separate issue then. Make sure to search for duplicates beforehand.

kicker334 · 2020-06-13T14:25:41Z

Can this be developed? the .noimage/.nomedia trick isn't working for any of my folders.

jancborchardt · 2020-06-13T16:24:10Z

@kicker334 sure thing – are you interested in contributing? :)

kicker334 · 2020-06-14T02:56:21Z

@jancborchardt I honestly wouldn't know where to start, develop, or test this type of thing... :( I have to ask strangers on the internet for help.

naezeroth · 2020-07-09T05:39:20Z

I'd love to help out - I'm super new to this kind of thing but if I could get some starting tips I can definitely have a go!

jancborchardt · 2024-01-17T13:18:24Z

@AndyScherzinger @sorbaugh feature spec exists in my comment at #141 (comment)

artonge · 2024-01-22T17:13:10Z

@jancborchardt we already have a setting to configure upload directory for photos. I guess we should keep only one, right? Currently, the default value for this setting is the hard-coded string '/Photos'.

One limitation could be that a user could want the Photos app to show pictures from its root directory, while wanting new pictures to be uploaded in a specific one.

We can internationalize the default value with the way we usually do our translations.

szaimen · 2024-01-22T17:14:18Z

I would personally vote for a second config option as people might want to set these independently...

AndyScherzinger · 2024-01-22T17:18:40Z

We can internationalize the default value with the way we usually do our translations.

I wouldn't do that, on Android have have this -> AutoUpload folder is translated: So whenever you switch the language of the device, or have a new device or several with different languages it gets messy.

The only thing that comes to mind could be to have a way to display this fact as some meta info at the folder within the files app.

Just my 2 cents.

artonge · 2024-01-22T17:21:09Z

I wouldn't do that, on Android have have this -> AutoUpload folder is translated: So whenever you switch the language of the device, or have a new device or several with different languages it gets messy.

Translated on init would be enough, no?

AndyScherzinger · 2024-01-22T17:22:23Z

Translated on init would be enough, no?

Yes, that would be fine 👍

artonge · 2024-01-22T17:25:40Z

Should we also restric the search to the specified folder in other timeline views?

"Favories", "On this day", "Shared with you"
"Photos", I guess yes
"Videos", it do not make sense, does it?

Same question for automated collections:

"Places"
"Peoples"

artonge · 2024-01-25T17:24:58Z

@jancborchardt or @nimishavijay

nimishavijay · 2024-02-05T17:36:47Z

As discussed, the folders from which media is shown can be configurable, and the folder to which photos are added is just one. Then it totally makes sense to restrict the timeline views, favourites, etc to only the selected folders :)

It could look like this in the settings :)

folders in the root folder do not have the path in the subline, otherwise the 2 parent folders are shown in the subline, so if /Canon/Photography/2024/Portraits is selected, subline is Photography/2024

Nice-to-have little details:

show a different icon when the root folder is selected
don't allow removing the folder if there is only one folder selected

ccing @jancborchardt in case you had something different in mind and also to double-check the wording :)

Edit: changed wording of button ("Choose another folder" to "Add folder")

jancborchardt · 2024-02-06T09:34:23Z

@nimishavijay mockup looks great, we just need to make sure that the default for both Media folder and Upload folder is "Photos". :)

And one detail, instead of "Choose another folder" I would say "Add folder" because it’s not a switch-choice like for the upload folder.

sorbaugh · 2024-02-14T09:14:25Z

@nimishavijay @jancborchardt I agree with removing the limitiation of having only 1 folder, and the nice-to-haves look neat. I'm splitting this into a separate subtask to get the current "finished" PR merged and make the individual steps and progress more transparent!

EDIT:
See #2343

dermalikmann · 2024-02-19T21:12:08Z

🎉 🥳
Thx everyone!

jancborchardt · 2024-02-22T09:58:27Z

@dermalikmann thanks for the really nice (and popular) suggestion! :) We hope you will enjoy the upcoming release!

artonge · 2024-02-27T09:57:21Z

@tobiasKaminsky I guess this needs to be taken into account by mobile clients. The setting is stored as a user config. Not sure whether you can easily access those from the clients ?

melroy89 · 2024-05-16T08:43:26Z

OK.. interesting breaking change. Since now it gives me "No photos or videos in here" at all media & photos. While 1 user shared me folder with 10k images (basically all our personal/family photos), which I saw before. But not anymore ;(.

So I changed the media folder, to the shared folder we have (called "Photos & videos"). After selecting that folder, I get: " An error occurred ".

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