Special Folders Tab¶

On the Special folders tab you can set up to 5 local special folders.

Special folders are labels you can assign to a root path. Using special folders, you can later move any videos below that root path to another location, update the special folder path, and all the paths in the catalog will work. For example, if you have all your videos below a folder like d:\videos\presentations* and create a special folder for this path called presentations. When you add a video from this folder, the catalog will store the path as [presentations]... in the catalog. It will be resolved to a full path whenever the path is accessed. If you later move all the videos to another place like e:\archived_presentations* and update the presentation's special folder, the catalog will work. Nothing in the catalog will be updated when you assign the special folders. The special folders are only used when you add files to the catalog and access folders.

Special folders are local to your computer and cannot be used when sharing a catalog.

There are several built-in special folders. These are listed at the bottom of the dialog and cannot be edited.

[LOCAL] is the folder where the catalog is stored. Any video added below the local path will automatically use the [LOCAL] special folder. This makes it possible to move the whole folder structure to another place and still have paths work.

Dropbox and Onedrive are detected and added as special folders. This way, it is possible to change the location of the Dropbox folder and still have paths that are valid in Fast Video cataloger.