Watch folders

Watch folders are the external paths out side the VDO library. The intention of this features is to keep your library clean and have the ability to choose from an unfilter set of videos. You can have multiple watch folders which the system would keep watching everytime you open VDO app.

Videos inside watchfolders are excluded from:

1. Search
2. Getting added to playlist
3. Add metadata like title, rating
4. Getting tagged
5. Change of collection outside the library collection.

Adding a watch folder

For adding a watch folder, follow these steps

1. Open VDO app.
2. Go to Settings -> General.
3. Click on select a folder to add
4. Browse the folder you want to add (It should be outside the library path)
5. Then select Add to watch button
6. You can see the watchfolder path the box present below.

Removing a watch folder

1. Open VDO app.
2. Go to Settings -> General.
3. Select the watch folder you want to remove
4. Click on x icon on the right side of the watch folder path name.
5. A confirmation box will open up for your approval and select OK
6. You can see the watchfolder removed from the box present below.

Refreshing and troubleshooting

Videos are not showing up: If you find there is some videos not appearing on the watchfolders or you have removed from watch folders manually, and it's showing up, you can choose refresh button on the collection details panel. You can find this button on the right side of the collection header.

Screen freezing while refresh:While loading videos or refreshing, depending on number of videos and how large the videos are, the system may take some time to fetch the detials. So, you may see a temporary freezing of the collection details section and a loding cursor. This only happens if there are new videos added.

Handling duplicate videosThis section allows multiple of the same videos, so when selecting one it would select all the videos that have exactly same content. And any changes would apply to only first video. We recomend to remove duplicate videos.