Separate Menu for Archived Shows

[jksmurf]

From the release notes for the current version:

Code:

- added 'Archive' feature. Only shows up if multiple recording directories are specified. Will move the recording, and any associated files. Also, PreArchiving.bat and PostArchiving.bat will be called around the archiving for users wanting to hook in their own custom logic.

I just worked out how to do this, which is great and would save me the Files Plugin (apologies for duplicate request btw).
However I have request, I would like to keep general recordings in the recordings menu, and have a new separate menu for Archived Shows (generally movies, which I watch less often than e.g. weekly TV series), otherwise while the show itself is archived, the name is kept under recordings, and the Recordings menu list gets really long.

Thanks

k.

[BrettB]

From the release notes for the current version:

Code:

- added 'Archive' feature. Only shows up if multiple recording directories are specified. Will move the recording, and any associated files. Also, PreArchiving.bat and PostArchiving.bat will be called around the archiving for users wanting to hook in their own custom logic.

I just worked out how to do this, which is great and would save me the Files Plugin (apologies for duplicate request btw).
However I have request, I would like to keep general recordings in the recordings menu, and have a new separate menu for Archived Shows (generally movies, which I watch less often than e.g. weekly TV series), otherwise while the show itself is archived, the name is kept under recordings, and the Recordings menu list gets really long.

Thanks

k.

As I've started using the archive feature, I've been thinking about this "problem", too. Rather than having a totally separate menu item listing for archived recordings, I was thinking about having an option on the Recordings listing to filter by recording location--with a settable default of either all locations or the current default location. I think that this solution would be helpful for normally limiting the displayed listing to the "new, active" shows. Plus, if one of the recording devices is filling up and you need to remove or moved recordings from that specific location, you can filter the listing to just those recording to select from.

[Lao Pan]

As a minimum we could do with some indication in the recordings screen of where the recording resides - perhaps have the name given in the settings/recordings screen shown for all but the default directory.

[jksmurf]

I would like to keep general recordings in the recordings menu, and have a new separate menu for Archived Shows, Thanks
k.

Just a bump of an old request.... any chance of this?

[sub]

I've got no plans to create a new screen for this.

Can you get what you want using the 'Filter' option at the top of the Recordings screen? ie, if you've been archiving your recordings to a folder called 'Archived' then set the filter to 'Achived', you should only seeing those recordings.

[jksmurf]

Apologies sub, somehow missed the response.

The answer is no, I don't believe so; when I choose that Filter it does show the archived show (although I am not sure what happened to my 28 others shows in the Archive Directory), so in that respect it shows only Archived Shows;

I was actually hoping for the opposite of that - i.e. NO archived shows, as the default filter, so the ready recordings list is not cluttered by shows I archived (and hence want to see either later or less often).

k.

EDIT1: btw, I noticed the directories all remained in the Recordings location, when I looked inside there most of the files had moved *.ts, *.log, *.txt, *.ts and even *.nfo but there were some .nfo files still left over called either tvshow.nfo or movie.info.

In itself no biggie but then the dirs do not get deleted. Is there a setting where I can add what files get moved to Archive?

EDIT2: There is also a file called folder.jpg, which appears to be the show media, that does not get moved across?